Turns out, Barbieland isn't as gay as s queer fans had hoped

Contents:

• GAY CHARACTERS
• MISTAKEN FOR GAY
• GAY MEN HAVE A “BCH” PROBLEM
• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

GAY CHARACTERS

The movie follows a group of gay iends as they’re stalked and killed on Halloween night by a hunky killer wearg only a mask and workout tights – bee if you’re gonna kill people you might as well look hot while dog , right? But unlike many other movi that have siar “you would have never gused he’s gay” characters, where there is a big moment “reveal” and the closeted gay jock out (and ually gets killed right after, if ’s a horror), Mch never out.

Though Uned Stat of Tara is mostly about givg Toni Collette some really tense clips for her reel, the show featur Marshall Gregson as a gay teen character.

You'll have to get through (or skip through) the first four seasons of The Vampire Diari to see the first major gay character, but Le Parker (Chris Brochu) is worth the wa.

MISTAKEN FOR GAY

Sadly, none of The Tudors' gay storyl feature Jonathan Rhys Meyers, but the tragic love story between artist, Thomas Tallis, and closeted nobleman Sir William Compton, make worth a watch.

GAY MEN HAVE A “BCH” PROBLEM

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. 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. 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.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

"A edy plot le which a character wrongly believ another character to be gay, eher bee of misrmatn received or bee of the supposedly gay character's own misterpreted words and actns. However, the characters don't need to retaliate or tell those who have mistaken them that they aren't gay as such characters n easily disprove the mistak through other means such as a revelatn of a straight relatnship. Due to the mon belief that All Men Are Perverts and A Man Is Always Eager, any male character who isn't shown to jump at the chance to have sex wh a woman will be mistaken for gay (if not actually gay) by the dience and possibly by the other characters as well (pecially male characters).

Subverted a b featured John Mulaney's "New Town, " which Mulaney nfs that while he is a straight man, he probably shouldn't be, and unrstand assumptns that he's gay. In Kick-Ass, this happens to Dave Lizewski after he gets beaten up twice while tryg to be a real-life superhero, wh the kids at school assumg he's a gay prostute who keeps gettg beaten up by his clients.