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Contents:
- LOOKG BACK AT THE MISTREATMENT OF MARVEL’S FIRST GAY COMIC SUPERHERO
- GAY COMIX HISTORY WH ANDY MANGELS
- GEE PéREZ HELPED BRG SUPERHERO TO GAY COMICS
- GAY IC BOOKS
- 10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY
- RAYMOND GAY
LOOKG BACK AT THE MISTREATMENT OF MARVEL’S FIRST GAY COMIC SUPERHERO
Lookg for the bt gay ics and graphic novels? Start wh remendatns om some of our absolute favore queer ics creators, fantasy, sci-fi, drama, YA, and eroti. * gay comic book artist *
It is, for lack of a better term, a gay vampire erotic romance.
And even though none of my actual remendatns have the, ’s a sellg pot for me if a ic has a fat, brown gay du there. So mak the characters gay, wh the sweet, short moments of domtic bliss. It’s about an MMA fighter who accintally kills his opponent, and then is traed by a man who was homophobic to his father when he was a kid.
I’m iends wh Steve Orlando, and he’s referred to as a kd of gay Rocky. It [assembl] some superhero piec and some re science fictn piec, but looks at the history of gay liberatn om the ey of a Martian who’s been exiled om his home pla due to prejudice. In Japan, the art of ic book illtratg is known as manga, and gay Gengoroh Tagame is the most proment ntemporary illtrator the untry.
GAY COMIX HISTORY WH ANDY MANGELS
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A muny of LGBTQ ic book aficnados has been created wh the webse GayLeague.
For those unaware, GLAAD is an Amerin monorg anisatn, found 1985 as the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn – although now known solely by the acronym, so as not to exclu bi, trans, and other queer people – to bat homophobia reportg and to lobby for better reprentatn media.
The Awards first troduced a ics tegory 1992, regnisg William Msner-Loeb’s work on The Flash and the revelatn that Pied Piper, a reformed villa turned Flash ally, was gay. However, this was a one-off seemgly to highlight the importance of troducg a gay character a mastream superhero ic. ) the first mastream superhero crossover to feature s central gay uple gettg married… twice!
GEE PéREZ HELPED BRG SUPERHERO TO GAY COMICS
Andy Mangels was the third and fal edor for Gay Comix, and he ma some amazg chang as well as documentg s history. * gay comic book artist *
A satelle team for the X-Men, X-Factor is lead by Northstar, Marvel’s first openly gay superhero, and featur two bisexual men on the team – ‘disaster bisexual’ Daken, the son of Wolvere, and ‘distguished bisexual’ Prodigy.
Suici Squad may seem like an odd choice for regnn – after all, the team of super-villas forced to take on dangero missns for the US ernment is better known for killg off s characters than explorg their romantic liv, gay or straight. Wrten by Alex Sanchez, wh art by Julie Maroh and letterg by Deron Bent, the graphic novel is based on the morn Aqualad, Jackson Hy, who was tablished as gay when he first appeared 2010.
The self-ntaed graphic novel is a g-of-age story focsg on Tiến, a young Vietname-Amerin boy stgglg to bridge a cultural and lguistic divi, and expla to his parents that he’s gay.
GAY IC BOOKS
In their latt of a month-long spotlight on great LGBTQ stori, CSBG exam the 1993 "superhero edn" of Gay Comics, wh Gee Pérez art! * gay comic book artist *
You might have heard Roxane Gay’s name mentned the Twter/Tumblrverse after great Hippolyta blsed wh Joss Whedon’s parture om the upg Batgirl project.
Gay, who is openly bisexual (yeah, I snickered at that sentence, too), is probably bt known for her llectn of says, Bad Femist. The existence of homosexualy ics has long been ferred but only recently embraced.
In the '50s and '60s, was illegal ( the Uned Stat) to be gay, so was nsired taboo and part of the unterculture. It wasn’t until the '70s and '80s that ic book creators began troducg characters that uld be scribed as havg gay ‘tras’ whout outright clarg them as LGBT.
10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY
Des before Iceman me out as gay or Rob first kissed his boyiend, LGBTQ artists were creatg queer ics the 1970s and ‘80s. * gay comic book artist *
Required absolutely no mentn of homosexualy until they lifted that ban 1989, and as the untry beme more progrsive s unrstandg and acceptance of the LGBT muny, creators ntued to buck the system and troduce pellg characters that were relatable to more people. In an early issue story-arc, Constante go to the fense of several homosexuals who are beg preyed upon and ends up takg a severe beatg for his effort. Northstar is probably the most well-known homosexual character to ic fans bee he was the first openly-gay superhero.
RAYMOND GAY
In ntemporary ics, there is much more queer reprentatn than the past. While not perfect, there are tons of ic seri wh progrsive, gay ... * gay comic book artist *
In the se of Northstar, they embraced wh a character’s homosexualy. The two share a mournful embrace over the loss of their loved on and was at that time that Northstar felt fortable enough to announce to the world, “I am gay. The inty of Hood Jtice is never fully explored, but Hollis Mason’s book, Unr the Hood, which is referenced throughout the ics, he expos Hood Jtice as havg approved of Hler’s actns durg World War II, which he nsired odd bee of Hler’s attu towards homosexuals, makg him a hypocre.
Gregor De La Vega, who lls himself Extraño (meang “strange” Spanish), is probably the most offensive pictn of a gay character ics.