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Contents:

• A GAY GEEK’S GUI TO COMIC-CON 2019: THE ANNUAL CONVENTN’S 13 GAYT MOMENTS
• GAY COMIC STRIPS
• TAG: GAY COMICS
• GAY HERO
• GAY IC BOOKS
• GAY COMICS BOOKS
• ROXANE GAY
• 10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY

A GAY GEEK’S GUI TO COMIC-CON 2019: THE ANNUAL CONVENTN’S 13 GAYT MOMENTS

Every year the renowned nventn not only shows the bt ic books, pop art, entertament and geek culture, but also featur myriad stanc of LGBT cln, promotn of queer culture and homoerotic gay Comic-Con splay. For those who uldn’t attend this year’s big event person, we’ve assembled a llectn of gay Comic-Con 2019 moments — om big film announcements to new ic tl — for you.

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Pat, this Boom Studs ic book seri explor the homoerotic unrbelly of petive fencg at an ele boys boardg school. The openly gay Star Trek alum announced two projects, both explorg Japane ternment durg and followg WWII. This openly gay ic creator (and Hor er) participated several panels at Comic-Con 2019, cludg Friday’s “BOOM!

” He also discsed how homophobia potentially fluenced Marvel’s cisn to ncel his popular Iceman seri. The show opened Thursday at the San Diego Conventn Center and ntu through are some of the TakeiAs the origal Sulu om Star Trek, beloved gay Japane-Amerin actor, thor, and activist Gee Takei is a equent Comic-Con gut, but this year he's out of his Starfleet uniform. ) ma wav last month after postg on social media his imprsn that homophobia may have been behd Marvel's failure to give Iceman the support need to thrive.

Star Trek: Disvery has bee the first the TV seri to have a ma character who is not only gay but happily married. Check out our popular “HOMO SUPERIOR” mugs and tot a variety of lors, and help out Prism by purchasg them! Over the next year, the ic would revis Andy — touchg on the stigma of the disease, the stigma of homosexualy, the medil muny’s nfn over the disease’s unpredictabily, the difficulty of gettg to experimental treatments, and many other topics and issu facg AIDS patients.

TAG: GAY COMICS

Wh the Co havg reversed s posn on gay people, Marvel cid that 1990 was the year they were gog to have someone wh superpowers really actually e out the pag of their ic books! So, at the end of Capta Ameri #368 they clud a short story which the Machmh revealed that he was gay! So, jt to rep, Marvel’s first super-powered tly openly gay character is an evil robot and a rapist.

In Dark Horse Prents #40, they began a story set a dystopian future where homosexualy had taken over and heterosexualy was crimalized.

Rick Vech self-published a limed seri lled Brat Pack, a really dark satire of mastream ic books, sort of ak to Watchmen some ways but like… In , the Batman analog Midnight Mk was a flamboyant gay man who sexually ab his sikicks. DC ics spent that year fully embracg the new Co l regardg LGBTQ+ characters by first havg the former supervilla Pied Piper e out as gay the openg pag of The Flash (vol. They kept that trend gog 1992 puttg the reformed villa Lightng Lord a gay relatnship, and implyg that the heroic duo Shrkg Vlet and Lightng Lass were a uple, and Jtice League Quarterly #8 sually mentned that Tasmanian Devil was gay (not the Looney Tun one, I know you were thkg ) by havg him exprs how acceptg the team was.

GAY HERO

) pretty mad bee his gay son had died of AIDS and been blamed for , bee of the stigma surroundg both AIDS and gay people. So, Northstar says he knows the hardships gay people face, sce he is gay… that mak Major Mapleleaf even angrier bee Northstar isn’t g his fame to help gay people or act as an AIDS activist. The issue received a ton of acclaim om the LGBTQ+ muny for tacklg the AIDS crisis so well, alg wh HIV stigma and homophobia simultaneoly, and fally gettg Northstar out of the closet.

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The issue touch on almost everythg happeng NYC leadg up to the Stonewall Rts — police rptn, mob n gay bars, Andy Warhol, Judy Garland — and leav off right before the police raid begs.

In March of 1993, Lynn Johnston’s syndited ic strip “For Better or For Worse” — nng daily newspapers sce 1979 — began a story which long-nng character Lawrence Poirier me out of the closet, beg the first openly gay teenager and first gay person of lor (as his father is Brazilian) a syndited newspaper ic strip. It’s pretty sad, until the end of the arc which is a much more upbeat endg than a lot of gay kids fd wh their fai and iends even now.

In other ic strip news, one of the four leadg characters of Doonbury, Mark Slackmeyer, also me out of the closet as a gay man that year. They created a mi-seri lled Sebastian O, the lead which was basilly a gay Jam Bond (and I don’t know about you but I’m dyg for the film adaptns!

GAY COMICS BOOKS

) In Enigma #4, the Enigma enty awakened the latent homosexualy of s host Michael Smh — was only an eight-issue seri but was still the lead character for the seri grapplg wh his own sexualy. In Miltone Media — which published and distributed s ic books through DC — superhero Fa was outed by a telepathic supervilla Blood Syndite #8 — makg him the first black gay superhero by a mastream ic book publisher, even though he never really embraced who he was. (This also ma Spectral the first gay character for Malibu Comics but sce they were only gog to be around another year before beg absorbed to Marvel and basilly fotten, that’s kd of cintal.

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The ia of gay superhero took hold unrground ics, wh Go-Go Boy by Neil Johnston and Leatherboy by Craig Maynard both beg released. In Marvel’s New Warrrs #48, a time-travelg Jtice would disver that his father — up to this pot pated as a pretty unsympathetic abive father character — was a closeted homosexual.

Shadow Cabet revealed two of s female superhero, Donner and Blzen, were together, and Static #16, the ma character’s bt iend Rick Stone me out after survivg a btal gaybashg at the hands of whe supremacists.

That year would also see even more gay superhero — Malibu Comics, recently acquired by Marvel, wrote superhero Turbocharge g out Prime (vol. In DC’s Black Lightng (vol 2) #5, the hero Jefferson Pierce learned that his recently killed -worker Walter Kasko was gay. DC also released Chiaroscuro: The Private Liv of Leonardo Da Vci, a bgraphy of Leonardo Da Vci that left all the juicy gay parts that ually get dropped.

10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY

Jt a uple of months later DC’s seri The Spectre (#45) a story lled “Acts of God”, the Spectre (and his alter-ego Jim Corrigan) learned to overe his own homophobia and stand up agast anti-gay vlence beg done the name of relign. The followg year, the character Hero me out about his homosexualy the pag of Superboy and the Ravers #13.