Reports me om Bleedg Cool yterday that Brett Booth and Stt Lobll will be troducg an outwardly gay character their upg re-lnch of Teen Tans, as a member of the team. Seen solicatns unr the moniker of the Wall, the character’s name has sce been changed to Bunker. His powers are as yet unknown, but given his nam and the ver of Teen Tans #3, appears that they are fensive nature, wh the hero beg able to create barriers and other nstcts.
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- TEEN TANS: WAS JERICHO ALWAYS GAY? IT'S... COMPLITED
- DC'S RELNCHED TEEN TANS TO BUT GAY TEEN SUPERHERO [UPDATED]
TEEN TANS: WAS JERICHO ALWAYS GAY? IT'S... COMPLITED
There’s one Tan that already is gay, that we’ve talked about brgg on — probably next season. Bunker, who is openly gay, has the abily to create psnic energy nstcts, which often manift as purple bricks he n e to attack enemi or protect himself as armor. The list of superhero accintally or liberately d as queer who have never nonilly been brought out of the closet bee of homophobia is long and prsg.
But wa, I n hear the ments already: So now Tim is jt The Rob Who Is Gay? Tim Drake’s story speaks to what advot for diversy n fet and homophob would rather ignore: There are legimate reasons to give a long-standg straight character a g-out story beyond “more diversy is more. In any event, when Perez and Wolfman were creatg the character, their ial tent was to have him be gay.
Perez explaed to the Gay League why they cid to change their md, ""While Marv and I did discs the possibily of Joseph Wilson beg gay, Marv cid that was too much of a stereotype to have the sensive, artistic, and wi-eyed character wh arguably effemate featur be also homosexual. After the ial bate on whether to make Jericho gay or not, Perez went all on Jericho as not only beg straight, but beg a ladi man. She later ntued to pursue the topic and he fally adms to her that he is gay...
DC'S RELNCHED TEEN TANS TO BUT GAY TEEN SUPERHERO [UPDATED]
Reports me om Bleedg Cool yterday that Brett Booth and Stt Lobll will be troducg an outwardly gay character their upg re-lnch of Teen Tans, as a member of the team. So if we’re gog to troduce a gay character Teen Tans, we want to make a new character and make sure that is an tegral part of who he is, or who she is, right om the start so we n really learn and grow wh her or him. He was very loved by his fay and the village as well — and they were as acceptg of his homosexualy as they were to his super powers when they first manifted.
” “We wanted to show an tertg character [whose] homosexualy is part of him, not somethg that’s hidn. Sure they are gay people who you wouldn’t know are gay right off the bat, but there are others who are a more flamboyant, and we thought would be nice to actually see them portrayed ics.