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(Cred: Bettmann/Getty Imag)It is worth notg that 1982, the year that Capta Ameri learned and accepted that his childhood bt iend was gay, was the same year that the medil muny officially adopted the acronym AIDS to replace unofficial, idmatic terms like “gay ncer, ” “gay plague” or even GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency).
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In 2006, 50 years after she was troduced to quell accatns that Batman was gay, a new versn of Batwoman named Kate Kane was troduced as an openly gay hero who had left Wt Pot due to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
Gay Comix was the 1980s ic book solely foced on artists and stori om the LGBTQ muny. We meet the people behd the publitn * gay rights comics *
Wrten by Charlie Jane Anrs wh art by Ro Ste, Ted Brandt, and lorist Tamra Bonvilla, Espa’s story promis to be unmissable, pecially the part where she has a geilly engeered flyg turtle named Pri 2022 by var creatorsDC Pri 2022 by var creatorsLike Marvel’s Voic, DC Pri’s send anniversary is overflowg wh own-voic stori about queerns and love on the margs, featurg a special troductn by Supergirl star Nile Ma and a heartfelt personal story om inic Batman voice actor Kev Conroy, who me out as gay 2016. Over the next year, the ic would revis Andy — touchg on the stigma of the disease, the stigma of homosexualy, the medil muny’s nfn over the disease’s unpredictabily, the difficulty of gettg to experimental treatments, and many other topics and issu facg AIDS patients. Wh the Co havg reversed s posn on gay people, Marvel cid that 1990 was the year they were gog to have someone wh superpowers really actually e out the pag of their ic books!
In Dark Horse Prents #40, they began a story set a dystopian future where homosexualy had taken over and heterosexualy was crimalized.
Rick Vech self-published a limed seri lled Brat Pack, a really dark satire of mastream ic books, sort of ak to Watchmen some ways but like… In , the Batman analog Midnight Mk was a flamboyant gay man who sexually ab his sikicks.