PHOTOS: 'Up, Up And I'm Gay': Comic Artist Joe Phillips Brgs Superhero Out Of The Closet
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- 'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)
- GAY PRO WRTLG CHAMP JAKE ATLAS PART OF NEW BREED OF OUT LGBTQ WRTLERS
- GAY PRO WRTLG CHAMP JAKE ATLAS PART OF NEW BREED OF OUT LGBTQ WRTLERS
'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)
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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.
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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.
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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).
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There have been tim I’ve intified as gay, bi, pan, ace, and others, ” he said.
Fredric Wertham wrote "Sctn Of The Innocent, " a book that alleged, among other thgs, that Wonr Woman was a lbian and that Batman and Rob were gay lovers. Although Wertham's allegatns have been long been ridiculed by the ics muny, some dtry sirs like Joe Phillips see a gay subtext throughout the superhero genre.
He says he's fascated by the unrlyg "gayns" of the superhero, and he's takg out of the closet and to a seri of patgs he lls "Beefke Hero, " currently on display at a San Diego art gallery. Strange, Superman and Capta Ameri barg their oiled, rippled physiqu eher tight jockey shorts or sktight spanx and wearg e hher looks more mon gay magaz like Blue Boy than, say, the pag of "Superboy. "Although the typil rear of a superhero ic is tagged as a heterosexual young adult male, Phillips says the characters have also had a big fluence on the gay muny.
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"Although Phillips is openly gay, Salazar adms puttg a gay-iendly sp on popular superhero is an act of bravery sce he still works the dtry.
"He's a good artist -- I'll give him that -- and I'm ol wh guys who are gay, but I want to see superhero savg the world, not pickg each other up, " said the man. RelatedsupermanComic-Congaypta amerislipollajax. Bee on this night, ont of a sold-out crowd some 20 south of downtown Los Angel, everybody is here to see a champn who jt happens to be gay.
For Atlas, an openly gay man, the impact and importance of his tle reign is somethg he cherish. I am also gay.
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In 2013, Darren Young beme the first openly gay wrtler WWE.
Young, who had ntemplated how to handle his sexualy for years, spontaneoly me out to a TMZ meraman when asked about whether or not the wrtlg world was ready for a gay performer.
“In the ‘70’s, ‘80’s or even ‘90’s, was not a safe space for gays, ” he says.