Wh the much discsed, more flamboyant gay teen superhero Bunker butg this week DC Comics "Teen Tans" #3, wrer Stt Lobll discs the metaphoril unrpngs of a seri that turns young hero to outlaws.
Contents:
- DC'S RELNCHED TEEN TANS TO BUT GAY TEEN SUPERHERO [UPDATED]
- DC'S RELNCHED TEEN TANS TO BUT GAY TEEN SUPERHERO [UPDATED]
- TEEN TANS: WAS JERICHO ALWAYS GAY? IT'S... COMPLITED
- LOBLL BUILDS UP GAY TEEN WH "TANS" BUNKER
- STT LOBLL TEAS SEND GAY TEEN TAN
- WAS JERICHO OF THE TEEN TANS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?
DC'S RELNCHED TEEN TANS TO BUT GAY TEEN SUPERHERO [UPDATED]
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Followg through on s pledge to create "a more morn, diverse DC Universe" wh the New 52, DC Comics will troduce a gay teenage superhero Teen Tans. Seri artist Brett Booth has revealed that Bunker will but November's Issue 3 -- he's referred to as "The Wall" the solicatn text -- where he's picted as an openly gay teen om Mexi who "n create small force fields that look like bricks. "We're tryg to make beg gay a part of who he is, " Booth wrote last night on Twter.
Bunker isn't the first gay Tan -- that was probably Hero Cz of Tans L. A., although there was a lot of fan speculatn about Jericho when he buted 1984 -- but he's (likely) the first gay teen troduced to the post-Flashpot DC Universe. He was very loved by his fay and the village as well -- and they were as acceptg of his homosexualy as they were to his super powers when they first manifted.
I've seen all the other gay superhero out there, Ok maybe not all. We wanted to show an tertg character who's homosexualy is part of him, not somethg that's hidn.
DC'S RELNCHED TEEN TANS TO BUT GAY TEEN SUPERHERO [UPDATED]
Sure they are gay people who you wouldn't know are gay right off the bat, but there are others who are a more flamboyant, and we thought would be nice to actually see them portrayed ics. I wanted you to know he might be gay as soon as you see him. Will he be more effemate than what we've seen before, the 'typil' gay male ic character, y.
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. 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.
TEEN TANS: WAS JERICHO ALWAYS GAY? IT'S... COMPLITED
She later ntued to pursue the topic and he fally adms to her that he is gay... Whout makg a big fs about , Tans nfirmed that Mercy is ed queer and she has a fay—which is a HUGE relief to *this* Tans fan who has been sperately wag for some gay sh to happen for two seasons already!! 1573237236Let's hope the gays keep wng future episos of the ensemble superhero seri!
Wh the much discsed, more flamboyant gay teen superhero Bunker butg this week DC Comics "Teen Tans" #3, wrer Stt Lobll discs the metaphoril unrpngs of a seri that turns young hero to outlaws. Introduced onle advance of his full but this week's "Teen Tans" #3, the hero whose power volv creatg brick-like force fields earned both praise and srn onle when the publisher revealed that the Mexin youth would not jt be openly gay but a more flamboyant take on gay superhero general.
LOBLL BUILDS UP GAY TEEN WH "TANS" BUNKER
A lot of digal k has been worked up on Bunker beg a gay teen and beg a teen who's a b more flamboyant his embracg of his sexualy.
STT LOBLL TEAS SEND GAY TEEN TAN
Stt Lobll has teased a send gay member for his Teen Tans wrer revealed plans to troduce a boyiend for newly-troduced character Bunker to the tle. "Former Jtice League member Vibe has been teased to be returng to DC Comics the near future, leadg to mours that he might be reimaged as a send homosexual Teen Tan.
WAS JERICHO OF THE TEEN TANS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?
The term om the killg of Kyle Rayner's girliend Alexandra DeWt shortly after his but as Green 2's Green Lantern Alan Stt was recently revealed to be gay. In the followg issue, his lover was killed a tra has pledged to troduce more gay characters to s relnched New 52 Armage is Movi Edor at Digal Spy. Characters om Tans whom are eher lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, pansexual, asexual, etc.
So far there have been three bisexual characters (Jericho, Gar Logan, and Tim Drake) troduced, one lbian character (Mercy Grav), one gay character (Larry), and four unlabeled characters (Koriand'r, Molly Jensen, Bernard Fzmart and Ga).