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Monsir Mallah is a gay character om DC Comics. GAY. He is the right-hand of fellow villa Bra and one of the few openly gay characters mastream ics - although this is a fairly recent velopment: he and Bra were officially exposed as lovers Doom Patrol #34.

Orientatn: Gay. Summary: Monsir Mallah is a gay supervilla DC ics who also happens to be an ape.

Doom Patrol #34 was published 1990, and ’s certaly temptg to reread the story a sympathetic light - after all, the ia of a snickerg gay joke right the middle of one of the most semal ns of proto-Vertigo DC seems que distasteful. It sure brought home the ia that homosexuals are JUST like you and me. Ty Templeton, "The seven most misguid attempts at gay characters ics, " Ty Templeton's Art Land!

Monsir Mallah is a DC ics supervilla, the right-hand man of fellow villa Bra and one of the few openly gay characters mastream ics - although this is a fairly recent velopment: he and Bra were officially exposed as lovers Doom Patrol #34. 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! So, at the end of Capta Ameri #368 they clud a short story which the Machmh revealed that he was gay! So, jt to rep, Marvel’s first super-powered tly openly gay character is an evil robot and a rapist.

In Dark Horse Prents #40, they began a story set a dystopian future where homosexualy had taken over and heterosexualy was crimalized. It was makg a really valid pot, but still didn’t exactly pat gay people the bt possible light. 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.

DC ics spent that year fully embracg the new Co l regardg LGBTQ+ characters by first havg the former supervilla Pied Piper e out as gay the openg pag of The Flash (vol. They kept that trend gog 1992 puttg the reformed villa Lightng Lord a gay relatnship, and implyg that the heroic duo Shrkg Vlet and Lightng Lass were a uple, and Jtice League Quarterly #8 sually mentned that Tasmanian Devil was gay (not the Looney Tun one, I know you were thkg ) by havg him exprs how acceptg the team was. ) pretty mad bee his gay son had died of AIDS and been blamed for , bee of the stigma surroundg both AIDS and gay people.

So, Northstar says he knows the hardships gay people face, sce he is gay… that mak Major Mapleleaf even angrier bee Northstar isn’t g his fame to help gay people or act as an AIDS activist. The issue received a ton of acclaim om the LGBTQ+ muny for tacklg the AIDS crisis so well, alg wh HIV stigma and homophobia simultaneoly, and fally gettg Northstar out of the closet. The issue touch on almost everythg happeng NYC leadg up to the Stonewall Rts — police rptn, mob n gay bars, Andy Warhol, Judy Garland — and leav off right before the police raid begs.

In March of 1993, Lynn Johnston’s syndited ic strip “For Better or For Worse” — nng daily newspapers sce 1979 — began a story which long-nng character Lawrence Poirier me out of the closet, beg the first openly gay teenager and first gay person of lor (as his father is Brazilian) a syndited newspaper ic strip. It’s pretty sad, until the end of the arc which is a much more upbeat endg than a lot of gay kids fd wh their fai and iends even now.

In other ic strip news, one of the four leadg characters of Doonbury, Mark Slackmeyer, also me out of the closet as a gay man that year.