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Contents:

• 'I WAS BEATEN UP BY TURKISH POLICE AND JAILED BEE I 'LOOKED GAY''
• HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
• WHY IS GAY SUDNLY BEG OK?
• MEET THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO ARE TERRIFIED THEY ARE GAY
• BLEEDG FOOLCOMIC BOOK NEWS, FILM REVIEWS AND GEEK-CULTURE AS WELL AS THE FARCE, FOLLY, AND FIAS SURROUNDG ALL! SKIP TO NTENTHOMENEWS + OPINIONSMOVIES/TV/STREAMINGCOMICS & BOOKSRPG & VIDEO-GAMESABOUT USSHOP SEARCH FOR: SEARCHSUPERMAN COM OUT: WHY SO MANY DC SUPERHERO ARE SUDNLY GAY TODD FISHER OCTOBER 11, 2021            IN SE YOU HAVEN’T HEARD, JONATHAN KENT, THE SON OF LOIS LANE AND CLARK KENT (AKA SUPERMAN), HAS BEEN OUTED AS BISEXUAL. SOME PEOPLE SAY “GAY,” AND TECHNILLY I SUPPOSE THAT’S RRECT SCE HE HASN’T BEEN WH ANY GIRLS SO FAR. AND, SE YOU WERE WONRG WHETHER HE WAS JT EXPERIMENTG WH HIS SEXUALY OR WAS CERTA HE WAS BI, DC COMICS NFIRMED .  ON NOVEMBER 9TH, THE LIFE OF JON KENT, THE SUPERMAN OF EARTH AND SON OF CLARK KENT AND LOIS LANE, TAK A BOLD NEW DIRECTN.“I’VE ALWAYS SAID EVERYONE NEEDS HERO AND EVERYONE SERV TO SEE THEMSELV THEIR HERO AND I’M VERY GRATEFUL DC AND WARNER BROS. SHARE THIS IA,” SAID WRER TOM TAYLOR. “SUPERMAN’S SYMBOL HAS ALWAYS STOOD FOR HOPE, FOR TTH AND FOR JTICE. TODAY, THAT SYMBOL REPRENTS SOMETHG MORE. TODAY, MORE PEOPLE N SEE THEMSELV THE MOST POWERFUL SUPERHERO ICS.”JT LIKE HIS FATHER BEFORE HIM, JON KENT HAS FALLEN FOR A REPORTER. AFTER IALLY STRIKG UP A IENDSHIP WH REPORTER JAY NAKAMURA, HE AND JON BEE ROMANTILLY VOLVED THE PAG OF SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #5 OM WRER TOM TAYLOR (DARK KNIGHTS OF STEEL) AND ARTIST JOHN TIMMS (HARLEY QUINN). FOLLOWG A SCENE WHERE SUPERMAN MENTALLY AND PHYSILLY BURNS OUT OM TRYG TO SAVE EVERYONE THAT HE N, JAY IS THERE TO RE FOR THE MAN OF STEEL. THERE’S REALLY NOTHG “BOLD” ABOUT THIS. IT’S PURELY ANOTHER ACT OF THE FAIAR, CYNIL PANRG THAT DC HAS UNFORTUNATELY BEGUN TO BEE KNOWN FOR, WHICH SHOULD BE OBV ONCE YOU REALIZE THAT THE ANNOUNCEMENT DROPPED TODAY, WHICH JT HAPPENS TO BE NATNAL COMG OUT DAY. THIS IS ACTUALLY OLD NEWS IF YOU’VE BEEN READG BLEEDG FOOL FOR THE LAST UPLE OF MONTHS. DC QUEERG SUPERMAN NEXT? WHY ALL DC COMICS SUPERHERO ARE GAY WRER TOM TAYLOR TOLD IGN THAT HE’S HAD QUEER CHARACTERS AND STORYL REJECTED BY THE ICS DTRY OVER THE YEARS, SO WHEN HE WAS ASKED TO WRE A NEW ISSUE OF “SUPERMAN,” HE CID TO MAKE THE MAN OF STEEL A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. “I KNEW REPLACG CLARK WH ANOTHER STRAIGHT WHE SAVR ULD BE A REAL OPPORTUNY MISSED,” TAYLOR SAID. “I’VE ALWAYS SAID EVERYONE NEEDS HERO AND EVERYONE SERV TO SEE THEMSELV THEIR HERO. TODAY, SUPERMAN, THE STRONGT SUPERHERO ON THE PLA, IS G OUT.” WHAT A JOKE THIS GUY IS. HIS BIG IA WAS TAKG ANOTHER TABLISHED CHARACTER AND CHANGG THEM TO F HIS POLIL WHIMS. BUT THIS SHOULDN’T BE NEWS TO OUR REARS. WE’VE REPORTED ON THIS ALREADY, AND FACT, ETHAN VAN SCIVER, THE CREATOR OF CYBEROG BROKE THIS NEWS MONTHS AGO, AND ’S PART OF THE REASON MANY CREATIV LEFT DC. CLARK KENT IS GOG AWAY. JONATHAN KENT IS TAKG OVER, AND THEY’RE ANNOUNCG HE’S GAY. #SUPERMANISGAY— TRUSTED MEMBER OF THE MEDIA (@ETHANVANSCIVER) AUGT 18, 2021 IF ’S NOT OBV TO YOU THAT THIS IS JT PANRG, YOU MAY HAVE MISSED HOW AUGT DC COMICS PROUDLY ANNOUNCED THAT FORMER BATMAN SI-KICK TIM DRAKE WAS G OUT AS BISEXUAL. THE MONTH PRR, DC COMICS CELEBRATED PRI MONTH WH A MEMORATIVE (AND POORLY SELLG) ISSUE THAT TRODUCED THE WORLD TO JTICE LEAGUE QUEER, AN AD-HOC TEAM OF LGBTQIA+ HERO FORMED BY GREGOR LA VEGA TO FIGHT OFF ECLIPSO WHEN HE ATTACKED A PRI PARA. I’M NOT KIDDG.  CLARK KENT HAS BEEN EXILED TO ANOTHER PLA, AND WILL BE OUT OF THE PICTURE FOR A WHILE, SO TECHNILLY, JONATHAN KENT IS DC COMICS’ SUPERMAN CURRENT NTUY.  THE TREND OF ICS BEG ED TO MAKE SOCIAL STATEMENTS, PECIALLY THE AREA OF HOMOSEXUALY, HAS BEEN GOG ON FOR A WHILE, PROBABLY SCE THE EARLY 1990S. IN THE MARCH 1992 ISSUE OF MARVEL’S ALPHA FLIGHT IC BOOK SERI, NORTHSTAR, CIS TO E OUT OF THE CLOSET AFTER SEEG THE RAVAGG EFFECT THAT AIDS HAS HAD ON AN ABANDONED BABY. BUT DC COMICS WAS AT THE FOREONT OF THIS, HAVG TRODUCED THEIR FIRST HOMOSEXUAL CHARACTER — THE PIED PIPER — AND CLUD AIDS‑RELATED THEM THEIR FLASH SERI AUGT 1991. BATWOMAN, IALLY SCRIBED AS “A ‘LIPSTICK LBIAN’ WHO MOONLIGHTS AS A CRIME FIGHTER,” WAS LATER TRODUCED 2006. GAY ENOUGH? DC COMICS PROMOT ‘DC PRI’ BOOKS THIS SUMMER GREG RUCKA REBOOTED WONR WOMAN WONR WOMAN: YEAR ONE WHICH HIGHLIGHTED HER TIME ON THEMYSCIRA, CLUDG HER MANY RELATNSHIPS WH OTHER AMAZON WOMEN. THE IC ALSO SHOWED THAT DIANA WAS POLYAMORO AND ONE OF THE MAJOR PLOT THREADS OF THE SERI VOLVED A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP BETWEEN ETTA CANDY AND DR. BARBARA ANN MERVA.  SCE THEN WE’VE GOTTEN A GAY GREEN LANTERN, A GAY AQUAMAN HAS TAKEN OVER THAT TLE, AND NEW WE HAVE A NON-BARY FLASH. MAYBE THAT JTICE LEAGUE QUEER TEAM IS REALLY GOG TO BEE A REALY AFTER ALL? IT’S STILL UNCLEAR WHY THERE HAS BEEN SUCH A RECENT PH FOR SEVERAL NEW, TRANSNED, AND REIMAGED HOMOSEXUAL “SUPERHERO” AT DC (AND MARVEL COMICS ALSO), BUT I’M BEGNG TO WONR IF THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO GET YOUNG PEOPLE ACCTOMED TO SEEG HOMOSEXUAL CHARACTERS A HEROIC LIGHT OR POSNS OF THORY. AND IF SO, WHY? IT’S BEG NSPICUO THAT THERE ARE NO LONGER ANY CHRISTIAN-FAH FOLLOWG SUPERHERO. AND IS ANYONE EXPECTG TO SEE BATWOMAN SUDNLY FD GOD AND CIDG TO SETTLE DOWN WH A STRAIGHT MAN AND START A FAY? THAT MIGHT E A TWTER MELTDOWN. I’M NOT SUGGTG THEY SERT FAH AND POLICS TO ICS, I’D PREFER THEY DIDN’T, BUT ’S BEEN ONE-SID FOR TOO LONG. AGENDA CONFIRMED: GAY ACTIVIST TV CREATORS ADM TO PROGRAMMG KIDS WE ALREADY KNOW THAT CREATORS THE ANIMATN AND TELEVISN REALM HAVE A SIAR AGENDA, AND WE’RE WELL AWARE THAT DC COMICS’ NEW LEARSHIP ARE HARD LEFT PARTISANS. MARIE JAVS, THE NEWT EDOR--CHIEF IS A VERY VOL BIG SUPPORTER OF LIBERAL . AND DANIEL CHERRY III, THEIR LATT SVP, IS A PROMENT LGBTQ ACTIVIST, WHO RECENTLY HAD THE FOLLOWG TO SAY ABOUT THE DIRECTN DC’S GOG TO BE TAKG MOVG FORWARD: “WHILE ALWAYS RPECTG THE PAST, I ALSO THK ’S OUR RPONSIBILY TO LEVERAGE THE CULTURAL POWER OF DC COMICS AND OUR CHARACTERS TO ENTERTA AND SPIRE AN CREASGLY DIVERSE GLOBAL FAN BASE. COMICS HAVE THE UNIQUE POWER TO CREATE RONANT IMAGERY AND NARRATIV THAT N MOVE THE WORLD TOWARD A BETTER, MORE CLIVE VERSN OF SELF.” OH, AM I NOT SUPPOSED TO SUGGT THERE’S AN AGENDA THEY ARE TRYG TO PROMOTE? AND THAT THERE’S NO ATTEMPT TO DOCTRATE OR FLUENCE THE REARS?  THERE ISN’T A PROBLEM WH GAY CHARACTERS. IF THEY ARE WELL-WRTEN AND THE STORI HAPPEN ANILLY, BUT THEY EQUENTLY ARE NOT. THIS IS NO LONGER ABOUT GOOD STORI. IT’S AGENDA DRIVEN, AND THE NUMBERS BEAR THAT OUT. WRER JASE PEEPL RECENTLY NOTED THAT, “LGBT HERO AND VILLAS HAVE BEEN MAKG THE REALM OF SUPERHERO A MORE LORFUL PLACE FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS. FROM GAY MARTIAL ARTS MASTERS AND LBIAN TECTIV TO BAD-SS BISEXUAL ANTIHERO AND TRANSGENR MAGICIANS, THE ARE 65 CHARACTERS THAT’VE LEFT THEIR MARK AND HELPED CHANGE THE GENRE.” ACRDG TO DC’S WEBSE, THEY HAVE NEARLY 200 LGBTQ CHARACTERS, ALTHOUGH MANY OF THEM ARE RIVATIV. PHG FOR MORE AND MORE GAY NVERSNS REALLY SEEMS LIKE AN ODD STRATEGY WHEN A ONLY 5% OF THE US POPULATN INTIFI AS LGBTQ. IN OTHER WORDS, THAT’S A VERY, VERY SMALL DIENCE. WOULDN’T PANRG TO CHRISTIANS, WHO MAKE UP AT LEAST TWO-THIRDS OF THE US POPULATN, BE A BETTER MONEY-MAKER?  AND YET DC DON’T APPEAR TO HAVE ANY CHRISTIAN CHARACTERS, OR AT LEAST NONE THEY WILLFULLY PROMOTE. AND ’S JT HAPPENSTANCE THAT THE FIRST, MAJOR TRANSGENR SUPERHERO WAS ANNOUNCED MARVEL COMICS FOR DISNEY. HOW MANY CHARACTERS THAT POE CHRISTIAN BELIEFS OR SUPPORT NSERVATIVE VALU ARE THERE AGA? NO AGENDA AT ALL. MARVEL & DISNEY+ INTRODUCE FIRST TRANSGENR SUPERHERO TO CHILDREN THIS GAY NVERSN THERAPY OF THEIR MALE SUPERHERO IS THE NATURAL RULT OF LEARSHIP CHANG AT THE ICS PUBLISHER. AND AFTER THIS SAL GIMMICK FAILS TO GENERATE THE NUMBERS THEY NEED TO SURVIVE, WHAT WILL THE NEXT “STUNNG AND BRAVE” SEXUALY NVERSN BE? AND HOW, IF EVER, N THEY WALK THIS BACK? IT’S TE THAT MARVEL MAY PULLED OFF A WALK-BACK WH NORTHSTAR. AFTER WOLVERE KILLED HIM, I DON’T THK HIS SEXUALY HAS BEEN MENTNED SCE HE ME BACK. WE’LL SEE HOW LONG THAT LASTS.. OF URSE, NORTHSTAR ISN’T ON THE SAME LEVEL AS SUPERMAN. (EDOR: NORTHSTAR’S HBAND KYLE JADU HAS BEEN APPEARG REGULARLY MARS AND WAS MARVEL’S VOIC: PRI IC) MT BE SOMETHG THE WATER OF THE DC UNIVERSE. DIDN’T TIM DRAKE JT DO THE SAME A FEW WEEKS AGO? ANYONE LOOKG TO THIS EXTRAORDARY PHENOMENA AND WHAT MIGHT BE G ? — BLEEDG FOOL (@BLEEDGFOOL) OCTOBER 11, 2021 SEVERAL ICS-RELATED YOUTUBE MENTERS WEIGHED ON THE NEWS TODAY:THIS IS A NOT A SER PANYWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE THE APATHY OF SUPERMAN AND MAKG HIM GAY!WATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE SUPERMAN JON KENT OFFICIALLY OUT AS BISEXUALWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE DC COMICS SET TO STROY MANGA SAL?! CONFIRMS JON KENT SUPERMAN AND ROB SWG BOTH WAYS!WATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE GAY SUPERMAN CONFIRMED…TOM TAYLOR GONNA TOM TAYLORWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THERE WAS A MAJOR ICS STORYLE THAT WAS GRABBG MEDIA HEADL? WAS BATMAN GETTG ENGAGED TO CATWOMAN? OR WHEN CAPTA AMERI WAS REVEALED TO BE A SECRET NAZI? AND BEFORE THAT WAS PROBABLY THE SUPERMAN’S DEAD STORYLE.  SOME BLUE HAIR TERN REALLY THOUGH THIS BOOK WOULD “TOTALLY OWN THE CHUDS” BUT NEVER WORKS LIKE THAT.REMEMBER THE NEW WOKE WARRRS? NOBODY BOUGHT AND WAS NCELLED BEFORE PRT. EVERY TIME THE DTRY PUTS OUT A BOOK LIKE THIS ’S FOR RETWEETS, NOT SAL.— THEQUARTERG (@THEQUARTERG) OCTOBER 11, 2021 MARVEL AND DC WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. NOWADAYS ALL THE IC PUBLISHERS N E UP WH IS ANOTHER GAY CHARACTER. YAWN.  NO WONR MANGA IS WNG.   MORE TRENDG STORI:TOM KG SET TO DENSTCT & DTROY WONR WOMAN NEXT'BLUE BEETLE' COMICS DERVED BETTER THAN ANGEL MANUEL SOTO'S NEW FILMLOOKG BACK AT THE COMICS BOOM & BT THE 1990'SREMENDG THIS COMIC MAY BE A BAD WAY TO PROMOTE 'BLUE BEETLE'W CRAVEN'S 'SWAMP THG' ARRIV BON-LAN 4K RTORATN BLU-RAYCHUCK DIXON SAYS MARVEL WORSE THAN DC DTROYG LEGACY CHARACTERSDC COMICS PRINT JIM LEE RESIGNG MORTAL KOMBAT FIGHTER            COMIC PERCHDAEL CHERRYDANIEL CHERRY IIIDC COMICSETHAN VAN SCIVERHEEL VS BABYFACEJASE PEEPLJIM LEEJOHN TIMMSJONATHAN KENTLGBTQSUPERBOYSUPERMANTOM TAYLORW DGHERYYELLOW FLASHBLOGSCOMICSNEWS TODD FISHER TODD LIV NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WH "THE WIFE," "THE KIDS," "THE DOGS," "THAT T," AND HE OCSNALLY WEARS PANTS. HIS UPG RELEASE, "ARE YOU WOKE ENOUGH YET?", IS THE CULMATN OF TOO MUCH TIME ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND WORKG THE FILM DTRY.RELATED POSTS HOW MARVEL FAILED JACK KIRBY & HOW OTHER CREATORS MISS THE POT ON SUPERHERO MOVI AND THE ETHICS OF “ETHNO-BENDG” TOM KG SET TO DENSTCT & DTROY WONR WOMAN NEXT INDIE COMICS SHOWSE #237: DATACELL, AL CAPONE VAMPIRE & TRICK OF THE LIGHT MARK MILLAR LAMENTS SAD STATE OF COMICS INDTRY HE HELPED DTROYJUST KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON
• BRGG UP BABY – I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN
• SUDNLY GAY

'I WAS BEATEN UP BY TURKISH POLICE AND JAILED BEE I 'LOOKED GAY''

Scientists may have fally solved the puzzle of what mak a person gay, and how is passed om parents to their children.A group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexuals get that tra om their oppose-sex parents: A lbian will almost always get the tra om her father, while a gay man will get the tra om his mother.The heredary lk of homosexualy has long been tablished, but scientists knew was not a strictly geic lk, bee there are many pairs of intil tws who have differg sexuali.

HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?

Scientists om the Natnal Instute for Mathematil and Blogil Synthis say homosexualy seems to have an epigeic, not a geic lk.Long thought to have some sort of heredary lk, a group of scientists suggted Tuday that homosexualy is lked to epi-marks — extra layers of rmatn that ntrol how certa gen are exprsed. In homosexuals, the epi-marks aren't erased — they're passed om father-to-dghter or mother-to-son, explas William Rice, an evolutnary blogist at the Universy of California Santa Barbara and lead thor of the study."There is pellg evince that epi-marks ntribute to both the siary and dissiary of fay members, and n therefore feasibly ntribute to the observed faial herance of homosexualy and s low nrdance between [intil] tws," Rice not.Rice and his team created a mathematil mol that explas why homosexualy is passed through epi-marks, not geics.

But bee the epi-marks provi an evolutnary advantage for the parents of homosexuals: They protect fathers of homosexuals om unrexposure to ttosterone and mothers of homosexuals om overexposure to ttosterone while they are gtatn."The epi-marks protect fathers and mothers om excs or unrexposure to ttosterone — when they rry over to oppose-sex offsprg, n e the masculizatn of femal or the femizatn of mal," Rice says, which n lead to a child beg gay. Rice not that the markers are "highly variable" and that only strong epi-marks will rult a homosexual offsprg.Though scientists have long spected some sort of geic lk, Rice says studi attemptg to expla why people are gay have been few and far between."Most mastream blogists have shied away om studyg bee of the social stigma," he says.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

Well there are many exampl of homosexualy nature, 's very mon." Homosexual behavr has been observed black swans, pengus, sheep, and other animals, he says.Rice's mol still needs to be tted on real-life parent-offsprg pairs, but he says this epigeic lk mak more sense than any other explanatn, and that his team has mapped out a way for other scientists to tt their work."We've found a story that looks really good," he says. Miguel Alvaro was solo holidayg Istanbul last month when he went out to meet a iend for lunch and beme lost, so asked policemen for directns before sudnly he was taedMiguel told Portugue outlet P3 that one of the officers orred him to be arrted immediatelyA Portugue man claims he was arrted Turkey and kept a squalid prison for nearly three weeks bee he "looked gay". ” Some people’s doubts are further plited by havg such experienc as hearg other people talkg or lookg their directn and thkg that the people mt be analyzg their behavr or appearance and talkg about them – discsg how they mt be gay (or straight).

I have sometim wonred if those who experience the most distrs om such thoughts as the do so bee they were raised wh more strongly homophobic or anti-gay attus to beg wh, or if is simply bee one’s sexualy n be such a basic doubt.

‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’

The flip si of this is when they look at thgs havg to do wh sex of an oppose orientatn and then feel aroed some way, which they then nclu to mean that they liked , which means that they are gay (or straight). But Diamond and other rearchers have piled numero se studi of gay men who spent years feelg (and actg) fully and fortably homosexual, only then to fall unexpectedly love wh a heterosexual woman. A rash of laws ncerng the teachg of human sexualy school curricula, banng trans stunt athlet and strippg parents of the right to help their genr-variant children obta appropriate re have popped up numero red stat this same-sex marriage is now part of the fabric of Ameri, nservativ have chosen to explo Amerins’ unfaiary wh trans people and piggyback on parental anger over the perceived overreach of Covid-era school closur, nflatg wh an sid sense of “wokens”, the hop of fdg an electorally viable sluiceway for anti-LGBTQ+ most famo of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws is the piece of Florida legislatn banng stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools between krgarten and third gra, the so-lled “don’t say gay” law.

WHY IS GAY SUDNLY BEG OK?

The ernor and his supporters have labeled as a “groomer” anyone who believ children n learn LGBTQ+ people exist, argug that simply by talkg about gay relatnships to a child, you are sexualizg that child. He was followed by Arizona’s ernor, Doug Ducey, who, after barrg mors om genr-affirmatn treatment, wouldn’t even state for the rerd that trans people were Florida lawmaker Michele Rayner-Goolsby, left, hugs her wife, Bian Goolsby, durg a march at cy hall St Petersburg agast the ‘don’t say gay’ bill.

Photograph: Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockPolicians are supported the media by mentators like Tucker Carlson, who claimed “no one had heard of this trans thg four years ago”, or Charlie Kirk, channelg 1980s fears sayg “gays want to rpt your children” rejuvenated, the right wg is poised to make transphobia and homophobia rnerston of the midterms and 2024 electns, wh promis to liver “don’t say gay” legislatn stat cludg Michigan and New Perks, the print of the Fay Rearch Council, a nservative lobbyg group, veighed agast the ernors of Indiana and Utah for vetog legislatn banng trans women om participatg sports, llg the bills “timely, mastream protectns”.

The Republin US reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to troduce a feral “don’t say gay” bill if Republins w the Hoe this November, only to one-up herself days later by tweetg that for people to be pro-trans is to be pro-pedophilia. ”The bs-iendly wg of the GOP that would quietly team up wh Democrats to scuttle rabidly homophobic bills is now outnumbered, and legislators a dozen or more stat that lean even farther to the right than DeSantis are takg, the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights legal director, believ Florida is the tt se for a renewed ph for an aggrsive, Christian-natnalist program. ”The “don’t say gay” bill, Mter not, is very siar to what’s been passed Rsia, tetherg Amerin nservativ to their thorarian unterparts who have succsfully rolled back mocratic norms across eastern Europe.

MEET THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO ARE TERRIFIED THEY ARE GAY

“I’ve seen this movie before over the last 30 years: The right wg cid to target the LGBTQ muny, whether ’s around marriage or adoptn or trans kids playg sports or bathrooms, ” says the California state senator Stt Wiener, who is gay. “I thought was really important to ph back on the policy level, and to send a clear signal that California and other stat really re about the kids, ” he believ that “don’t say gay” is “patently unnstutnal” but also ntends that relyg on the judicial system to protect human rights may no longer be a sound optn.

You so obvly nnot be gay, was her implitn, bee this is good was 2006, a full five years before Lady Gaga would set the Born This Way argument atop s unassailable cultural perch, but even then the popular unrstandg of orientatn was that was somethg you were born wh, somethg you uldn’t change. But what feels most accurate to say is that I’m gay – but I wasn’t born this people may fd their sir changg directn - and n't jt be explaed as experimentatn (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)In 1977, jt over 10% of Amerins thought gayns was somethg you were born wh, acrdg to Gallup. Throughout the same perd, the number of Amerins who believe homosexualy is “due to someone’s upbrgg/environment” fell om jt unr 60% to ias reached cril mass pop culture, first wh Lady Gaga’s 2011 Born This Way and one year later wh Macklemore’s Same Love, the chos of which has a gay person sgg “I n’t change even if I tried, even if I wanted to.

” Around the same time, the Human Rights Campaign clared unequivolly that “Beg gay is not a choice, ” and to claim that is “giv unwarranted crence to roundly disproven practic such as nversn or reparative therapy. ”People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backwardAs Jane Ward not Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, what’s tertg about many of the claims is how transparent their speakers are wh their polil motivatns. “Such statements, ” she wr, “fe blogil acunts wh an obligatory and nearly ercive force, suggtg that anyone who scrib homosexual sire as a choice or social nstctn is playg to the hands of the enemy.

BLEEDG FOOLCOMIC BOOK NEWS, FILM REVIEWS AND GEEK-CULTURE AS WELL AS THE FARCE, FOLLY, AND FIAS SURROUNDG ALL! SKIP TO NTENTHOMENEWS + OPINIONSMOVIES/TV/STREAMINGCOMICS & BOOKSRPG & VIDEO-GAMESABOUT USSHOP SEARCH FOR: SEARCHSUPERMAN COM OUT: WHY SO MANY DC SUPERHERO ARE SUDNLY GAY TODD FISHER OCTOBER 11, 2021            IN SE YOU HAVEN’T HEARD, JONATHAN KENT, THE SON OF LOIS LANE AND CLARK KENT (AKA SUPERMAN), HAS BEEN OUTED AS BISEXUAL. SOME PEOPLE SAY “GAY,” AND TECHNILLY I SUPPOSE THAT’S RRECT SCE HE HASN’T BEEN WH ANY GIRLS SO FAR. AND, SE YOU WERE WONRG WHETHER HE WAS JT EXPERIMENTG WH HIS SEXUALY OR WAS CERTA HE WAS BI, DC COMICS NFIRMED .  ON NOVEMBER 9TH, THE LIFE OF JON KENT, THE SUPERMAN OF EARTH AND SON OF CLARK KENT AND LOIS LANE, TAK A BOLD NEW DIRECTN.“I’VE ALWAYS SAID EVERYONE NEEDS HERO AND EVERYONE SERV TO SEE THEMSELV THEIR HERO AND I’M VERY GRATEFUL DC AND WARNER BROS. SHARE THIS IA,” SAID WRER TOM TAYLOR. “SUPERMAN’S SYMBOL HAS ALWAYS STOOD FOR HOPE, FOR TTH AND FOR JTICE. TODAY, THAT SYMBOL REPRENTS SOMETHG MORE. TODAY, MORE PEOPLE N SEE THEMSELV THE MOST POWERFUL SUPERHERO ICS.”JT LIKE HIS FATHER BEFORE HIM, JON KENT HAS FALLEN FOR A REPORTER. AFTER IALLY STRIKG UP A IENDSHIP WH REPORTER JAY NAKAMURA, HE AND JON BEE ROMANTILLY VOLVED THE PAG OF SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #5 OM WRER TOM TAYLOR (DARK KNIGHTS OF STEEL) AND ARTIST JOHN TIMMS (HARLEY QUINN). FOLLOWG A SCENE WHERE SUPERMAN MENTALLY AND PHYSILLY BURNS OUT OM TRYG TO SAVE EVERYONE THAT HE N, JAY IS THERE TO RE FOR THE MAN OF STEEL. THERE’S REALLY NOTHG “BOLD” ABOUT THIS. IT’S PURELY ANOTHER ACT OF THE FAIAR, CYNIL PANRG THAT DC HAS UNFORTUNATELY BEGUN TO BEE KNOWN FOR, WHICH SHOULD BE OBV ONCE YOU REALIZE THAT THE ANNOUNCEMENT DROPPED TODAY, WHICH JT HAPPENS TO BE NATNAL COMG OUT DAY. THIS IS ACTUALLY OLD NEWS IF YOU’VE BEEN READG BLEEDG FOOL FOR THE LAST UPLE OF MONTHS. DC QUEERG SUPERMAN NEXT? WHY ALL DC COMICS SUPERHERO ARE GAY WRER TOM TAYLOR TOLD IGN THAT HE’S HAD QUEER CHARACTERS AND STORYL REJECTED BY THE ICS DTRY OVER THE YEARS, SO WHEN HE WAS ASKED TO WRE A NEW ISSUE OF “SUPERMAN,” HE CID TO MAKE THE MAN OF STEEL A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. “I KNEW REPLACG CLARK WH ANOTHER STRAIGHT WHE SAVR ULD BE A REAL OPPORTUNY MISSED,” TAYLOR SAID. “I’VE ALWAYS SAID EVERYONE NEEDS HERO AND EVERYONE SERV TO SEE THEMSELV THEIR HERO. TODAY, SUPERMAN, THE STRONGT SUPERHERO ON THE PLA, IS G OUT.” WHAT A JOKE THIS GUY IS. HIS BIG IA WAS TAKG ANOTHER TABLISHED CHARACTER AND CHANGG THEM TO F HIS POLIL WHIMS. BUT THIS SHOULDN’T BE NEWS TO OUR REARS. WE’VE REPORTED ON THIS ALREADY, AND FACT, ETHAN VAN SCIVER, THE CREATOR OF CYBEROG BROKE THIS NEWS MONTHS AGO, AND ’S PART OF THE REASON MANY CREATIV LEFT DC. CLARK KENT IS GOG AWAY. JONATHAN KENT IS TAKG OVER, AND THEY’RE ANNOUNCG HE’S GAY. #SUPERMANISGAY— TRUSTED MEMBER OF THE MEDIA (@ETHANVANSCIVER) AUGT 18, 2021 IF ’S NOT OBV TO YOU THAT THIS IS JT PANRG, YOU MAY HAVE MISSED HOW AUGT DC COMICS PROUDLY ANNOUNCED THAT FORMER BATMAN SI-KICK TIM DRAKE WAS G OUT AS BISEXUAL. THE MONTH PRR, DC COMICS CELEBRATED PRI MONTH WH A MEMORATIVE (AND POORLY SELLG) ISSUE THAT TRODUCED THE WORLD TO JTICE LEAGUE QUEER, AN AD-HOC TEAM OF LGBTQIA+ HERO FORMED BY GREGOR LA VEGA TO FIGHT OFF ECLIPSO WHEN HE ATTACKED A PRI PARA. I’M NOT KIDDG.  CLARK KENT HAS BEEN EXILED TO ANOTHER PLA, AND WILL BE OUT OF THE PICTURE FOR A WHILE, SO TECHNILLY, JONATHAN KENT IS DC COMICS’ SUPERMAN CURRENT NTUY.  THE TREND OF ICS BEG ED TO MAKE SOCIAL STATEMENTS, PECIALLY THE AREA OF HOMOSEXUALY, HAS BEEN GOG ON FOR A WHILE, PROBABLY SCE THE EARLY 1990S. IN THE MARCH 1992 ISSUE OF MARVEL’S ALPHA FLIGHT IC BOOK SERI, NORTHSTAR, CIS TO E OUT OF THE CLOSET AFTER SEEG THE RAVAGG EFFECT THAT AIDS HAS HAD ON AN ABANDONED BABY. BUT DC COMICS WAS AT THE FOREONT OF THIS, HAVG TRODUCED THEIR FIRST HOMOSEXUAL CHARACTER — THE PIED PIPER — AND CLUD AIDS‑RELATED THEM THEIR FLASH SERI AUGT 1991. BATWOMAN, IALLY SCRIBED AS “A ‘LIPSTICK LBIAN’ WHO MOONLIGHTS AS A CRIME FIGHTER,” WAS LATER TRODUCED 2006. GAY ENOUGH? DC COMICS PROMOT ‘DC PRI’ BOOKS THIS SUMMER GREG RUCKA REBOOTED WONR WOMAN WONR WOMAN: YEAR ONE WHICH HIGHLIGHTED HER TIME ON THEMYSCIRA, CLUDG HER MANY RELATNSHIPS WH OTHER AMAZON WOMEN. THE IC ALSO SHOWED THAT DIANA WAS POLYAMORO AND ONE OF THE MAJOR PLOT THREADS OF THE SERI VOLVED A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP BETWEEN ETTA CANDY AND DR. BARBARA ANN MERVA.  SCE THEN WE’VE GOTTEN A GAY GREEN LANTERN, A GAY AQUAMAN HAS TAKEN OVER THAT TLE, AND NEW WE HAVE A NON-BARY FLASH. MAYBE THAT JTICE LEAGUE QUEER TEAM IS REALLY GOG TO BEE A REALY AFTER ALL? IT’S STILL UNCLEAR WHY THERE HAS BEEN SUCH A RECENT PH FOR SEVERAL NEW, TRANSNED, AND REIMAGED HOMOSEXUAL “SUPERHERO” AT DC (AND MARVEL COMICS ALSO), BUT I’M BEGNG TO WONR IF THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO GET YOUNG PEOPLE ACCTOMED TO SEEG HOMOSEXUAL CHARACTERS A HEROIC LIGHT OR POSNS OF THORY. AND IF SO, WHY? IT’S BEG NSPICUO THAT THERE ARE NO LONGER ANY CHRISTIAN-FAH FOLLOWG SUPERHERO. AND IS ANYONE EXPECTG TO SEE BATWOMAN SUDNLY FD GOD AND CIDG TO SETTLE DOWN WH A STRAIGHT MAN AND START A FAY? THAT MIGHT E A TWTER MELTDOWN. I’M NOT SUGGTG THEY SERT FAH AND POLICS TO ICS, I’D PREFER THEY DIDN’T, BUT ’S BEEN ONE-SID FOR TOO LONG. AGENDA CONFIRMED: GAY ACTIVIST TV CREATORS ADM TO PROGRAMMG KIDS WE ALREADY KNOW THAT CREATORS THE ANIMATN AND TELEVISN REALM HAVE A SIAR AGENDA, AND WE’RE WELL AWARE THAT DC COMICS’ NEW LEARSHIP ARE HARD LEFT PARTISANS. MARIE JAVS, THE NEWT EDOR--CHIEF IS A VERY VOL BIG SUPPORTER OF LIBERAL . AND DANIEL CHERRY III, THEIR LATT SVP, IS A PROMENT LGBTQ ACTIVIST, WHO RECENTLY HAD THE FOLLOWG TO SAY ABOUT THE DIRECTN DC’S GOG TO BE TAKG MOVG FORWARD: “WHILE ALWAYS RPECTG THE PAST, I ALSO THK ’S OUR RPONSIBILY TO LEVERAGE THE CULTURAL POWER OF DC COMICS AND OUR CHARACTERS TO ENTERTA AND SPIRE AN CREASGLY DIVERSE GLOBAL FAN BASE. COMICS HAVE THE UNIQUE POWER TO CREATE RONANT IMAGERY AND NARRATIV THAT N MOVE THE WORLD TOWARD A BETTER, MORE CLIVE VERSN OF SELF.” OH, AM I NOT SUPPOSED TO SUGGT THERE’S AN AGENDA THEY ARE TRYG TO PROMOTE? AND THAT THERE’S NO ATTEMPT TO DOCTRATE OR FLUENCE THE REARS?  THERE ISN’T A PROBLEM WH GAY CHARACTERS. IF THEY ARE WELL-WRTEN AND THE STORI HAPPEN ANILLY, BUT THEY EQUENTLY ARE NOT. THIS IS NO LONGER ABOUT GOOD STORI. IT’S AGENDA DRIVEN, AND THE NUMBERS BEAR THAT OUT. WRER JASE PEEPL RECENTLY NOTED THAT, “LGBT HERO AND VILLAS HAVE BEEN MAKG THE REALM OF SUPERHERO A MORE LORFUL PLACE FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS. FROM GAY MARTIAL ARTS MASTERS AND LBIAN TECTIV TO BAD-SS BISEXUAL ANTIHERO AND TRANSGENR MAGICIANS, THE ARE 65 CHARACTERS THAT’VE LEFT THEIR MARK AND HELPED CHANGE THE GENRE.” ACRDG TO DC’S WEBSE, THEY HAVE NEARLY 200 LGBTQ CHARACTERS, ALTHOUGH MANY OF THEM ARE RIVATIV. PHG FOR MORE AND MORE GAY NVERSNS REALLY SEEMS LIKE AN ODD STRATEGY WHEN A ONLY 5% OF THE US POPULATN INTIFI AS LGBTQ. IN OTHER WORDS, THAT’S A VERY, VERY SMALL DIENCE. WOULDN’T PANRG TO CHRISTIANS, WHO MAKE UP AT LEAST TWO-THIRDS OF THE US POPULATN, BE A BETTER MONEY-MAKER?  AND YET DC DON’T APPEAR TO HAVE ANY CHRISTIAN CHARACTERS, OR AT LEAST NONE THEY WILLFULLY PROMOTE. AND ’S JT HAPPENSTANCE THAT THE FIRST, MAJOR TRANSGENR SUPERHERO WAS ANNOUNCED MARVEL COMICS FOR DISNEY. HOW MANY CHARACTERS THAT POE CHRISTIAN BELIEFS OR SUPPORT NSERVATIVE VALU ARE THERE AGA? NO AGENDA AT ALL. MARVEL & DISNEY+ INTRODUCE FIRST TRANSGENR SUPERHERO TO CHILDREN THIS GAY NVERSN THERAPY OF THEIR MALE SUPERHERO IS THE NATURAL RULT OF LEARSHIP CHANG AT THE ICS PUBLISHER. AND AFTER THIS SAL GIMMICK FAILS TO GENERATE THE NUMBERS THEY NEED TO SURVIVE, WHAT WILL THE NEXT “STUNNG AND BRAVE” SEXUALY NVERSN BE? AND HOW, IF EVER, N THEY WALK THIS BACK? IT’S TE THAT MARVEL MAY PULLED OFF A WALK-BACK WH NORTHSTAR. AFTER WOLVERE KILLED HIM, I DON’T THK HIS SEXUALY HAS BEEN MENTNED SCE HE ME BACK. WE’LL SEE HOW LONG THAT LASTS.. OF URSE, NORTHSTAR ISN’T ON THE SAME LEVEL AS SUPERMAN. (EDOR: NORTHSTAR’S HBAND KYLE JADU HAS BEEN APPEARG REGULARLY MARS AND WAS MARVEL’S VOIC: PRI IC) MT BE SOMETHG THE WATER OF THE DC UNIVERSE. DIDN’T TIM DRAKE JT DO THE SAME A FEW WEEKS AGO? ANYONE LOOKG TO THIS EXTRAORDARY PHENOMENA AND WHAT MIGHT BE G ? — BLEEDG FOOL (@BLEEDGFOOL) OCTOBER 11, 2021 SEVERAL ICS-RELATED YOUTUBE MENTERS WEIGHED ON THE NEWS TODAY:THIS IS A NOT A SER PANYWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE THE APATHY OF SUPERMAN AND MAKG HIM GAY!WATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE SUPERMAN JON KENT OFFICIALLY OUT AS BISEXUALWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE DC COMICS SET TO STROY MANGA SAL?! CONFIRMS JON KENT SUPERMAN AND ROB SWG BOTH WAYS!WATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE GAY SUPERMAN CONFIRMED…TOM TAYLOR GONNA TOM TAYLORWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THERE WAS A MAJOR ICS STORYLE THAT WAS GRABBG MEDIA HEADL? WAS BATMAN GETTG ENGAGED TO CATWOMAN? OR WHEN CAPTA AMERI WAS REVEALED TO BE A SECRET NAZI? AND BEFORE THAT WAS PROBABLY THE SUPERMAN’S DEAD STORYLE.  SOME BLUE HAIR TERN REALLY THOUGH THIS BOOK WOULD “TOTALLY OWN THE CHUDS” BUT NEVER WORKS LIKE THAT.REMEMBER THE NEW WOKE WARRRS? NOBODY BOUGHT AND WAS NCELLED BEFORE PRT. EVERY TIME THE DTRY PUTS OUT A BOOK LIKE THIS ’S FOR RETWEETS, NOT SAL.— THEQUARTERG (@THEQUARTERG) OCTOBER 11, 2021 MARVEL AND DC WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. NOWADAYS ALL THE IC PUBLISHERS N E UP WH IS ANOTHER GAY CHARACTER. YAWN.  NO WONR MANGA IS WNG.   MORE TRENDG STORI:TOM KG SET TO DENSTCT & DTROY WONR WOMAN NEXT'BLUE BEETLE' COMICS DERVED BETTER THAN ANGEL MANUEL SOTO'S NEW FILMLOOKG BACK AT THE COMICS BOOM & BT THE 1990'SREMENDG THIS COMIC MAY BE A BAD WAY TO PROMOTE 'BLUE BEETLE'W CRAVEN'S 'SWAMP THG' ARRIV BON-LAN 4K RTORATN BLU-RAYCHUCK DIXON SAYS MARVEL WORSE THAN DC DTROYG LEGACY CHARACTERSDC COMICS PRINT JIM LEE RESIGNG MORTAL KOMBAT FIGHTER            COMIC PERCHDAEL CHERRYDANIEL CHERRY IIIDC COMICSETHAN VAN SCIVERHEEL VS BABYFACEJASE PEEPLJIM LEEJOHN TIMMSJONATHAN KENTLGBTQSUPERBOYSUPERMANTOM TAYLORW DGHERYYELLOW FLASHBLOGSCOMICSNEWS TODD FISHER TODD LIV NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WH "THE WIFE," "THE KIDS," "THE DOGS," "THAT T," AND HE OCSNALLY WEARS PANTS. HIS UPG RELEASE, "ARE YOU WOKE ENOUGH YET?", IS THE CULMATN OF TOO MUCH TIME ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND WORKG THE FILM DTRY.RELATED POSTS HOW MARVEL FAILED JACK KIRBY & HOW OTHER CREATORS MISS THE POT ON SUPERHERO MOVI AND THE ETHICS OF “ETHNO-BENDG” TOM KG SET TO DENSTCT & DTROY WONR WOMAN NEXT INDIE COMICS SHOWSE #237: DATACELL, AL CAPONE VAMPIRE & TRICK OF THE LIGHT MARK MILLAR LAMENTS SAD STATE OF COMICS INDTRY HE HELPED DTROYJUST KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON

”Gay rights do not have to hge on a geic explanatn for sexualy (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)For Aravosis, and many gay activists like him, the public will only accept and affirm gay people if they thk they were born gay. In fact, the homophobic and non-homophobic rponnts he studied shared siar levels of belief a Born This Way Samantha Allen not at The Daily Beast, the growg public support for gays and lbians has grown out of proportn wh the rise the number of people who believe homosexualy is fixed at birth; would be unlikely that this small change opn uld expla the spike support for gay marriage, for stance.

“It don’t seem to matter as much whether or not people believe that gay people are born that way as do that they simply know someone who is currently gay, ” Allen spe of the studi, those who ph agast Born This Way narrativ have been heavily cricised by gay activists. Siarly, Ward has received her own hatemail for phg agast the lg LGB narrativ, wh some gays tellg her she’s “worse than Ann Coulter, ” the ntroversial US thor of books like If Democrats Had Any Bras, They’d Be Republins. There is a unanimo opn that gay “nversn therapy” should be rejectedLet’s first be clear that whatever the origs of our sexual orientatn, there is a unanimo opn that gay “nversn therapy” should be rejected.

BRGG UP BABY – I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN

The efforts are potentially harmful, acrdg to the APA, “bee they prent the view that the sexual orientatn of lbian, gay and bisexual youth is a mental illns of disorr, and they often ame the abily to change one’s sexual orientatn as a personal and moral failure. The APA, for example, while notg that most people experience ltle to no choice over their orientatns, says this of homosexualy’s origs:“Although much rearch has examed the possible geic, hormonal, velopmental, social and cultural fluenc on sexual orientatn, no fdgs have emerged that perm scientists to nclu that sexual orientatn is termed by any particular factor or factors.

”Siarly, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn wr a 2013 statement that while the of heterosexualy and homosexualy are currently unknown, they are likely “multifactorial cludg blogil and behavral roots which may vary between different dividuals and may even vary over time. ” Acrdg to LeVay’s rearch, a specific part of the bra, the third terstial nucls of the anterr hypothalam (INAH-3), is smaller homosexual men than is heterosexual as they might, scientists have stggled to inty any particular gen that nsistently predict the directns of our love and sire (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)Read moreYou n spot the problem wh this study a e away: were the gay bras LeVay studied born that way, or did they bee that way?

Bis the dividual criqu leveled agast each new study announcg some gay gene disvery, there are major methodologil cricisms to make about the entire enterprise general, as Grzanka pots out: “If we look at the raveno pursu, particularly among Amerin scientists, to fd a gay gene, what we see is that the ncln has already been arrived at.

SUDNLY GAY

” Our sir may exprs themselv many different ways that do not all nform to existg notns of ‘gay’, ‘straight’ or ‘bisexual’ is one of the bt takeaways of Ward’s Not Gay, a peratg analysis of sex between straight whe men.