Teen Tans New Gay Character | The Mary Sue

Contents:

• TEEN TANS GAY SEX
• TEEN TANS: WAS JERICHO ALWAYS GAY? IT'S... COMPLITED
• DC'S RELNCHED TEEN TANS TO BUT GAY TEEN SUPERHERO [UPDATED]

TEEN TANS GAY SEX

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.

TEEN TANS: WAS JERICHO ALWAYS GAY? IT'S... COMPLITED

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.

DC'S RELNCHED TEEN TANS TO BUT GAY TEEN SUPERHERO [UPDATED]

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.