Pied Piper, Evolutn of a Gay Rogue – Mark Carlson-Ghost

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PIED PIPER, EVOLUTN OF A GAY ROGUE

Pied Piper was DC Comics first succsful gay superhero, even though Extrano me first and Piper started out as a villa. All all, Pied Piper’s evolutn as an early gay character is worth explorg. Wally asks Hartley, as a former villa, if he ever heard the mors that the Joker is gay.

He’s not gay, Wally” Hartley ps.

But, balance, as DC’s lone gay hero, the look was probably ls than ial. It also reflected a more acceptg social climate where was assumed rears were ready not only to accept a gay character but also one who actually had a romantic life. This would seem like a posive velopment for gay characters who rarely got such featured stat.

The two characters are largely played for ic relief, portrayed as a largely ept gay/straight odd uple wh all of the “humor” one might expect om the arrangement. Meanwhile, Capta Sgh is still worryg about the impact on his reer if anyone would disver he was gay, even worryg that reporter Iris Wt uld potentially out him. From beg portrayed as a seemgly asexual gay man, Piper was then shown a mol relatnship, was featured stori that dimished him, and fally shown a plited relatnship and adventur that didn’t revolve around his sexualy but didn’t shy away om eher.

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The Pied Piper is the first stumed character superhero ics to e the word “gay” relatn to himself.

Wally asks if the mors are te: is the Joker gay? Piper says he don’t thk the Joker is gay.

Obvly an ial world, wouldn’t have taken Wally an entire issue to reach that ncln, and certaly the way he talks about gay men the openg pag is…not enlightened. Piper would her a generally more matter-of-fact treatment of queer characters over the next few years, wh a number of (admtedly always very mor) characters sually g out whout a whiff of angst, and zero gay bashg — aga, a far cry om the ’80s. Trickster spends the seri beg relentlsly homophobic to Piper; then both of them die.

Piper go out wh a bang, playg a batn of the smilly stctive Anti-Life Equatn wh Queen’s “The Show Mt Go On, ” but a hat tip to Freddie Mercury don’t A) improve the seri overall, B) erase all the homophobia the rear had to wa through to get to this pot, or C) make Piper not ad at the end, so. ) Instead, 32 years later, a different creative team cid to pict him as gay.

It has been revealed that Piper self-intifi as homosexual and is a relatnship wh David Sgh. Into the street the Piper stept, Sg first a ltle se, As if he knew what magic sleptIn his quiet pipe the while;Then, like a mil apt, To blow the pipe his lips he wrkled, And green and blue his sharp ey twkled, Like a ndle-flame where salt is sprkled; And ere three shrill not the pipe uttered, You heard as if an army muttered;And the mutterg grew to a gmblg;And the gmblg grew to a mighty mblg;And out of the ho the rats me rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodrs, gay young iskers, Fathers, mothers, uncl, s, Cockg tails and prickg whiskers, Fai by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, hbands, wiv--Followed the Piper for their street to street he piped advancg, And step for step they followed dancg, Until they me to the river WerWhere all plunged and perished!

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Overall bt benef is their pricg as you n ually save $500-1000 per person off Celebry rat by bookg through Pied Piper as their gay group rat are generally excellent. But people are plited and societi evolve, so sce that time has e to be acknowledged that some characters are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr. Extraño, DC Comics' first openly gay super-hero.

The Comics Co Authory explicly forba pictn of homosexualy until 1989, fluenced by Fredric Wertham's Sctn of the Innocent, who saw homosexual elements the relatnship between Batman and his ward Rob.

Millennium #2 was not the first appearance of homosexual characters DC Comics, however, is the first time we have seen an openly gay character at DC Comics. The seri mostly foc on a flamboyant stereotype of a gay man, but do touch on sensive topics like HIV/AIDS, and was ntroversial at the time.

Neil Gaiman's Sandman (Volume 2) featured several different topics, cludg elrly gay uple Prelus and Nocturn and a trans woman A Game of You. As general acceptance of LGBT shifted the 21st Century, more characters me out as gay.

WildStorm Productns troduced Midnighter and Apollo as an openly gay uple. As part of the New 52, Bunker was add to the roster of the Teen Tans and the Green Lantern of Earth 2, Alan Stt, was changed to a gay man.