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Contents:

• LYNDA CARTER SHUTS DOWN HOMOPHOBIC CLAIM THAT WONR WOMAN ISN’T FOR GAYS: ‘YOU’RE NOT PAYG ATTENTN’
• 10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY
• ‘WONR WOMAN SAID GAY RIGHTS’ FANS THK SUPERHERO IS G OUT AS QUEER
• WATCH S.N.L. ADDRS WONR WOMAN’S “SUPER GAY” LEGACYKATE MCKNON AND HER -STARS CLEVERLY TACKLE WHAT’S MISSG OM THE SUMMER BLOCKBTER.BY JOANNA ROBSONOCTOBER 8, 2017SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEDURG A SURPRISGLY CHARMG “WEEKEND UPDATE” SEGMENT ABOUT GRAPPLG WH HIS RECENTLY-DIAGNOSED BORRLE PERSONALY DISORR, S.N.L. ST MEMBER PETE DAVIDSON JOKED THAT HE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE MORE SKETCH WHERE HE GETS TO KISS THE HOST (A.K.A. GAL GADOT, ON THIS NIGHT). IT WAS A CLASSIC, OLD-SCHOOL AT BOY S.N.L. JOKE THAT PAID OFF BETIFULLY SEVERAL SKETCH LATER—WHEN WAS KATE MCKNON, NOT DAVIDSON, SMOOCHG GADOT A SKETCH THAT CLEVERLY ADDRSED THE GAY SUBTEXT OF WONR WOMAN.MCKNON HERSELF IS NOT STRANGER TO GAY SUBTEXT MAJOR BLOCKBTER FILMS. THE FIRST OUT LBIAN ST MEMBER ON S.N.L., MCKNON BEME A BONAFI GAY IN LAST SUMMER WHEN HER GHOSTBTERS CHARACTER JILLIAN HOLTZMANN STIRRED UP HOPE AMONG THE QUEER MUNY THAT WE MIGHT SEE AN OPENLY LBIAN CHARACTER A BIG-BUDGET STUD BLOCKBTER. BUT WHILE GHOSBTERS DIRECTOR PL FEIG WOULD NOT NFIRM OR NY HOLTZMANN’S SEXUALY, ANY GAYNS THERE WAS BURIED SUBTEXT.YOU’D HAVE TO DIG EVEN EPER TO FD THE GAY SUBTEXT OF THIS SUMMER’S WONR WOMAN. THE FILM, WH S ISLAND FULL OF WELL-MCLED FEMALE WARRRS, WAS A MASSIVE H AMONG QUEER AND LBIAN POP CULTURE MENTERS, BUT ONCE AGA, ANY LGBT STORYL WERE RERVED TO SUBTLE GTUR BETWEEN ROB WRIGHT’S ANTPE AND HER RIGHT-HAND WOMAN, MENALIPPE (LISA LOVEN KONGSLI).IN AN ARTICLE TLED “LGBT SUPERHERO: WHY ‘WONR WOMAN’ COULD NEVER HAVE BEEN THE LBIAN AVENGER WE STILL NEED,” INDIEWIRE’S JU DRY WROTE: “WHILE THE BRASS BODIC AND LEATHER GLADIATOR SKIRTS SUGGT A HIGH-FASHN UPDATE ON LUCY LAWLS’S XENA, WHAT’S MISSG OM THIS FEMIST UTOPIA IS ONE LICK OF SAPPHIC SUBTEXT.”THAT’S WHY THIS PARTICULAR SKETCH WAS MORE THAN JT AN EXCE TO HAVE AN ATTRACTIVE HOST LIKE GADOT KISS A MEMBER OF THE S.N.L. ST. AS AIDY BRYANT’S LBIAN CHARACTER WRYLY OBSERV OF THE OSTENSIBLY STRAIGHT THEMYSCIRA: “THIS IS A HUGE LET DOWN FOR .” MCKNON NCLUS: “ONCE AGA, BEE THE WHOLE THG SEEMS SUPER GAY.” IN OTHER WORDS: THIS IS A CUTE, FUNNY SKETCH BUT WORKS ALL THE BETTER FOR ADDRSG SOME GENUE TRATN AMONG LGBT FILM LOVERS.MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDSATURDAY NIGHT LIVE SKETCH THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MOVI1 / 10CHEVRONCHEVRON“THE FTNK BROTHERS”THE SAME SEASON THAT SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE BUTED “THE BLU BROTHERS,” 1978, DAN AYKROYD AND RECURRG HOST STEVE MART TRODUCED THEIR “FTNK BROTHERS” SKETCH, ABOUT TWO “WILD AND CRAZY GUYS” WHO LT AFTER “SWGG FOX” AND WEAR BELL BOTTOMS AS TIGHT AS THEIR GRASP OF ENGLISH IS LOOSE. HAD MART NOT ALREADY VOTED HIMSELF TO OTHER FILMS THE LATE 70S AND EARLY 80S (CLUDG THE JERK AND PENNI OM HEAVEN) AND AYKROYD NOT BEEN BY WH THE BLU BROTHERS, TWO WILD AND CRAZY GUYS WOULD HAVE MA THE NEXT-BT S.N.L. ADAPTATN. (PART BORAT, PART A NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY—BUT WH MORE EDY POTENTIAL AND EVEN WORSE CLOTH.) ULTIMATELY, STEAD OF TRANSLATG THE CHARACTERS FOR FILM, MART ADAPTED THE SKETCH FOR TWO TRACKS ON HIS GRAMMY-WNG EDY ALBUM, A WILD AND CRAZY GUY, WHICH WENT DOUBLE PLATUM.JOANNA ROBSON
• WONR WOMAN IS A GAY IN EVEN IF THE MOVI WON’T FULLY GO THERE
• WONR WOMAN MA ME THE GAY MAN I AM TODAY

LYNDA CARTER SHUTS DOWN HOMOPHOBIC CLAIM THAT WONR WOMAN ISN’T FOR GAYS: ‘YOU’RE NOT PAYG ATTENTN’

But as some of the homophobic and transphobic rpons to Carter's tweet show, Diana's bisexualy seems to ignored  certa perceptns of the character.

We’ve put together this list to troduce some of the most fluential gay superhero, rangg om groundbreakg figur like Marvel’s Northstar to characters like Harley Qun who only me out the past few 12 most inic gay superhero1) Wonr WomanDiana of Themyscira has a long and storied history as a queer in. (CC-BY-SA)2) MidnighterPossibly the bt-known gay superhero ic book circl, Midnighter was created as a parody of Batman, startg off the adult-rated Wildstorm ic Stormwatch. As one of the origal X-Men, he was portrayed as straight for s beg outed as gay 2015.

Thanks to the X-Men ics’ love of time travel hijks, there are actually two versns of this character at the moment: A teenage Iceman who realized he was gay after Jean Grey read his md, and an adult versn who stayed the closet and dated women for years, but me out after beg nonted by his younger self. The recent Iceman solo seri foced on his life after this revelatn, earng a mixed rponse bee while ’s great to see a gay character gettg their own ic, his emotnal arc is a rather old-fashned g-out story.

10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY

She first appeared as Batman’s love tert the 1950s, shortly after the publitn of Sctn of the Innocent, a book that acced Batman of homosexual propaganda.

In recent years she was rewrten to be gay herself, a ntroversial cisn that led to some problems of s her ic’s creators wanted her to marry her girliend, DC nixed the cisn by sayg hero “shouldn’t have happy personal liv, ” a dub statement that sounds pretty ridiculo the ntext of, say, Superman. After years of hts, he me out as gay 1992. LGBTQ and gay superhero list:Wonr Woman (DC Comics).

‘WONR WOMAN SAID GAY RIGHTS’ FANS THK SUPERHERO IS G OUT AS QUEER

"Wonr Woman IS NOT A SUPER HERO FOR GAYS! " Twter er Amber Heffner wrote Woman IS NOT A SUPER HERO FOR GAYS! "But an Amazon don't look at another Amazon and say, 'You're gay.

Lynda Carter proved her superhero powers real life after g social media to shut down a homophobic er claimg Wonr Woman “is not for gays. “Wonr Woman IS NOT A SUPER HERO FOR GAYS, ” one Twter er wrote to Carter, who fired back wh the followg statement: “You’re right.

WATCH S.N.L. ADDRS WONR WOMAN’S “SUPER GAY” LEGACYKATE MCKNON AND HER -STARS CLEVERLY TACKLE WHAT’S MISSG OM THE SUMMER BLOCKBTER.BY JOANNA ROBSONOCTOBER 8, 2017SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEDURG A SURPRISGLY CHARMG “WEEKEND UPDATE” SEGMENT ABOUT GRAPPLG WH HIS RECENTLY-DIAGNOSED BORRLE PERSONALY DISORR, S.N.L. ST MEMBER PETE DAVIDSON JOKED THAT HE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE MORE SKETCH WHERE HE GETS TO KISS THE HOST (A.K.A. GAL GADOT, ON THIS NIGHT). IT WAS A CLASSIC, OLD-SCHOOL AT BOY S.N.L. JOKE THAT PAID OFF BETIFULLY SEVERAL SKETCH LATER—WHEN WAS KATE MCKNON, NOT DAVIDSON, SMOOCHG GADOT A SKETCH THAT CLEVERLY ADDRSED THE GAY SUBTEXT OF WONR WOMAN.MCKNON HERSELF IS NOT STRANGER TO GAY SUBTEXT MAJOR BLOCKBTER FILMS. THE FIRST OUT LBIAN ST MEMBER ON S.N.L., MCKNON BEME A BONAFI GAY IN LAST SUMMER WHEN HER GHOSTBTERS CHARACTER JILLIAN HOLTZMANN STIRRED UP HOPE AMONG THE QUEER MUNY THAT WE MIGHT SEE AN OPENLY LBIAN CHARACTER A BIG-BUDGET STUD BLOCKBTER. BUT WHILE GHOSBTERS DIRECTOR PL FEIG WOULD NOT NFIRM OR NY HOLTZMANN’S SEXUALY, ANY GAYNS THERE WAS BURIED SUBTEXT.YOU’D HAVE TO DIG EVEN EPER TO FD THE GAY SUBTEXT OF THIS SUMMER’S WONR WOMAN. THE FILM, WH S ISLAND FULL OF WELL-MCLED FEMALE WARRRS, WAS A MASSIVE H AMONG QUEER AND LBIAN POP CULTURE MENTERS, BUT ONCE AGA, ANY LGBT STORYL WERE RERVED TO SUBTLE GTUR BETWEEN ROB WRIGHT’S ANTPE AND HER RIGHT-HAND WOMAN, MENALIPPE (LISA LOVEN KONGSLI).IN AN ARTICLE TLED “LGBT SUPERHERO: WHY ‘WONR WOMAN’ COULD NEVER HAVE BEEN THE LBIAN AVENGER WE STILL NEED,” INDIEWIRE’S JU DRY WROTE: “WHILE THE BRASS BODIC AND LEATHER GLADIATOR SKIRTS SUGGT A HIGH-FASHN UPDATE ON LUCY LAWLS’S XENA, WHAT’S MISSG OM THIS FEMIST UTOPIA IS ONE LICK OF SAPPHIC SUBTEXT.”THAT’S WHY THIS PARTICULAR SKETCH WAS MORE THAN JT AN EXCE TO HAVE AN ATTRACTIVE HOST LIKE GADOT KISS A MEMBER OF THE S.N.L. ST. AS AIDY BRYANT’S LBIAN CHARACTER WRYLY OBSERV OF THE OSTENSIBLY STRAIGHT THEMYSCIRA: “THIS IS A HUGE LET DOWN FOR .” MCKNON NCLUS: “ONCE AGA, BEE THE WHOLE THG SEEMS SUPER GAY.” IN OTHER WORDS: THIS IS A CUTE, FUNNY SKETCH BUT WORKS ALL THE BETTER FOR ADDRSG SOME GENUE TRATN AMONG LGBT FILM LOVERS.MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDSATURDAY NIGHT LIVE SKETCH THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MOVI1 / 10CHEVRONCHEVRON“THE FTNK BROTHERS”THE SAME SEASON THAT SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE BUTED “THE BLU BROTHERS,” 1978, DAN AYKROYD AND RECURRG HOST STEVE MART TRODUCED THEIR “FTNK BROTHERS” SKETCH, ABOUT TWO “WILD AND CRAZY GUYS” WHO LT AFTER “SWGG FOX” AND WEAR BELL BOTTOMS AS TIGHT AS THEIR GRASP OF ENGLISH IS LOOSE. HAD MART NOT ALREADY VOTED HIMSELF TO OTHER FILMS THE LATE 70S AND EARLY 80S (CLUDG THE JERK AND PENNI OM HEAVEN) AND AYKROYD NOT BEEN BY WH THE BLU BROTHERS, TWO WILD AND CRAZY GUYS WOULD HAVE MA THE NEXT-BT S.N.L. ADAPTATN. (PART BORAT, PART A NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY—BUT WH MORE EDY POTENTIAL AND EVEN WORSE CLOTH.) ULTIMATELY, STEAD OF TRANSLATG THE CHARACTERS FOR FILM, MART ADAPTED THE SKETCH FOR TWO TRACKS ON HIS GRAMMY-WNG EDY ALBUM, A WILD AND CRAZY GUY, WHICH WENT DOUBLE PLATUM.JOANNA ROBSON

The er ntued to exprs outrage over Carter’s ments, wrg to the actor on Twter, “Why did you e Wonr Woman to promote gays, lbians [and bisexuals? Now here’s one I ll the ‘ready to fight your homophobic relativ.

Now here's one I ll the "ready to fight your homophobic relativ" pose. Wonr Woman has had implied girliends, off-screen girliends, and girliends that uldn’t be lled girliends bee wrers were livg more homophobic tim.

Parts of Atralia have jt crimalised homosexual acts between nsentg adults. In the UK, Chris Smh out as the first openly gay member of the Hoe of Commons.

WONR WOMAN IS A GAY IN EVEN IF THE MOVI WON’T FULLY GO THERE

Back 2016, Chris played Capta Kirk Star Trek Beyond, which saw John Cho’s character Hika Sulu e out as gay. The fact that we had a gay man nng for print is pretty ol.

Speakg about our current print, there’s a lot of xenophobia, homophobia and other phobias. When the Rawhi Kid returned to ics 2003, he was re-brand as gay the more adult-themed ic book seri.

While the Kid wasn't sent to any Old Wt gay bars between gun slgg, he did affect a different speech pattern and air and attu more sued to a stereotypil homosexual character. Tre as may have seemed, he was still reprentg the LGBT muny a time history where went strictly longt mored-to-be-gay character mastream super hero ics was "Alpha Flight's" Northstar.

WONR WOMAN MA ME THE GAY MAN I AM TODAY

Thk about and Shatterstar may be gettg all the gay mutant attentn the days, but before the two were out and proud, Marvel mutants Phat and Vivector were proudly announcg their queer stat to the world back '03. Over the urse of their publicy stunt, they both realized they really were gay and started a relatnship. They broke off when they realized that gay or not… neher of them was really attracted to the other.