In ntemporary ics, there is much more queer reprentatn than the past. While not perfect, there are tons of ic seri wh progrsive, gay ...
Contents:
- GAY COMIX HISTORY WH ANDY MANGELS
- 'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)
- GEE PéREZ HELPED BRG SUPERHERO TO GAY COMICS
- GAY IC BOOKS
GAY COMIX HISTORY WH ANDY MANGELS
Lookg for the bt gay ics and graphic novels? Start wh remendatns om some of our absolute favore queer ics creators, fantasy, sci-fi, drama, YA, and eroti. * gay comic book art *
For those unaware, GLAAD is an Amerin monorg anisatn, found 1985 as the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn – although now known solely by the acronym, so as not to exclu bi, trans, and other queer people – to bat homophobia reportg and to lobby for better reprentatn media. The Awards first troduced a ics tegory 1992, regnisg William Msner-Loeb’s work on The Flash and the revelatn that Pied Piper, a reformed villa turned Flash ally, was gay. However, this was a one-off seemgly to highlight the importance of troducg a gay character a mastream superhero ic.
) the first mastream superhero crossover to feature s central gay uple gettg married… twice!
A satelle team for the X-Men, X-Factor is lead by Northstar, Marvel’s first openly gay superhero, and featur two bisexual men on the team – ‘disaster bisexual’ Daken, the son of Wolvere, and ‘distguished bisexual’ Prodigy. Suici Squad may seem like an odd choice for regnn – after all, the team of super-villas forced to take on dangero missns for the US ernment is better known for killg off s characters than explorg their romantic liv, gay or straight.
'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)
Andy Mangels was the third and fal edor for Gay Comix, and he ma some amazg chang as well as documentg s history. * gay comic book art *
Wrten by Alex Sanchez, wh art by Julie Maroh and letterg by Deron Bent, the graphic novel is based on the morn Aqualad, Jackson Hy, who was tablished as gay when he first appeared 2010. The self-ntaed graphic novel is a g-of-age story focsg on Tiến, a young Vietname-Amerin boy stgglg to bridge a cultural and lguistic divi, and expla to his parents that he’s gay. It is, for lack of a better term, a gay vampire erotic romance.
And even though none of my actual remendatns have the, ’s a sellg pot for me if a ic has a fat, brown gay du there. So mak the characters gay, wh the sweet, short moments of domtic bliss.
It’s about an MMA fighter who accintally kills his opponent, and then is traed by a man who was homophobic to his father when he was a kid. I’m iends wh Steve Orlando, and he’s referred to as a kd of gay Rocky. It [assembl] some superhero piec and some re science fictn piec, but looks at the history of gay liberatn om the ey of a Martian who’s been exiled om his home pla due to prejudice.
GEE PéREZ HELPED BRG SUPERHERO TO GAY COMICS
PHOTOS: 'Up, Up And I'm Gay': Comic Artist Joe Phillips Brgs Superhero Out Of The Closet * gay comic book art *
In s 18-year n om 1980 to 1998, Gay Comix went through two publishers and three edors, and each brought their own flavor to the seri. The fal edor, Andy Mangels, met wh to discs the progrsn of Gay Comix and how changed over the years.
GAY IC BOOKS
In their latt of a month-long spotlight on great LGBTQ stori, CSBG exam the 1993 "superhero edn" of Gay Comics, wh Gee Pérez art! * gay comic book art *
When discsg the history of queer ics, perhaps one of the most important thg to note is that beg openly gay 1980 was a potentially reer-endg move, particularly the cis male-domated world of ics. At the same time, gay magaz were begng to n queer-centric ic strips.