Which versns of Superman, Rob, and Wonr Woman are gay? How DC Comics is refg the symbols of characters like Batman, Green Lantern, and the Flash for a new, queerer generatn.
Contents:
- IS DC REALLY MAKG SUPERMAN GAY?
- DID DC COMICS ‘MAKE SUPERMAN GAY’?
- DC COMICS WILL MAKE SUPERMAN GAY AN UNEXPECTED SHAKE-UP, AND FANS ARE OVERJOYED
- RUMOR: DC COMICS PLANS TO MAKE SUPERMAN GAY
- FACT OR FICTN: SUPERMAN THE ICS IS NOW GAY?
- IN SHOCKG TWIST ON INIC CHARACTER, SUPERMAN REPORTEDLY OUT AS GAY
IS DC REALLY MAKG SUPERMAN GAY?
Are the mors te? IS DC really makg Superman gay? Well…about that. Here's how that mor got started. * they made superman gay *
But brave would be havg him fight for the rights of gay people Iran. On Augt 19, Van Sciver ma a livtream which he claimed that “Clark Kent is gog bye-bye” orr to be replaced by Jon, who would then e out as gay, “so Superman is effectively gay.
DID DC COMICS ‘MAKE SUPERMAN GAY’?
A former DC Comics artist has claimed that the pany is preparg to kill off Clark Kent and troduce his son as a new gay Superman. * they made superman gay *
” Aga, unclear if the s actually thk this is te or are jt fanng the flam of knee-jerk homophobic anger, but this sort of thg happens all the time and generally stays ntaed wh s ual echo chamber. Gay, bi, pan, may be a while till this to un on the page. Anyone wrg about this mor who is payg enough attentn to the actual ics has intified Jay as Jon’s new love tert — and hey, when I read the issue, I too was like “Well, there’s some homoerotic subtext happeng here!
DC COMICS WILL MAKE SUPERMAN GAY AN UNEXPECTED SHAKE-UP, AND FANS ARE OVERJOYED
* they made superman gay *
” But ics have been rife wh homoerotic subtext sce Jon’s dad first cid to wear his unrwear outsi of his pants 1938. On the other hand, if the world at large firmly believ Jon Kent is gay, maybe DC will have to make him gay or risk lookg homophobic…? Jon Kent is fely gay, and I too have many secret sourc si DC nfirmg this.
Aqualad, is gay. In Augt, was announced that the latt versn of Rob would have a boyiend while March, Marvel also ma the cisn to pass the mantle of Capta Ameri to a gay the big-screen worlds of Marvel and DC rema ls progrsive.
RUMOR: DC COMICS PLANS TO MAKE SUPERMAN GAY
It's beg reported that DC Comics uld turn the inic Superman character to a gay character to promote clivy for their brand. * they made superman gay *
This November’s Eternals is set to change thgs wh the Marvel Cematic Universe’s first LGBTQ+ kiss between Brian Tyree Henry’s Phastos, the first openly gay superhero a Marvel movie, and Haaz Sleiman, who plays his hband. ClaimThe DC Comics character Superman was changed to be a gay man October this fact check?
FACT OR FICTN: SUPERMAN THE ICS IS NOW GAY?
Predictably, some on social media plaed, falsely, that the origal Superman had been “turned gay. ”Republin lawmaker Wendy Rogers, an Arizona state senator, was roundly mocked onle after smearg the character on Twter by g a “gay lisp” joke. Hollywood is tryg to make Superman gay and he is not.
As the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn has explaed:For example, referrg to two married women as a “lbian uple” whout nsirg that one or both women intifi as bi. Consirg a bisexual person eher gay or straight pendg on the sex of the person’s partner, or llg bisexuals “alli” to the LGBT muny, are also forms of bi erasure. Bisexual erasure plays a cril role rcg the muny’s visibily, and turn rcg accs to the rourc and support opportuni bisexual people so sperately Amerin Instute of Bisexualy has also argued that the practice is relatively recent:It was only when “homosexual” and “gay” beme mon labels morn society that the parative absence of “bisexual” and “bi” om polil disurse beme apparent.
IN SHOCKG TWIST ON INIC CHARACTER, SUPERMAN REPORTEDLY OUT AS GAY
Rather than the label “homosexualy” applyg only those wh solely same-sex attractns, those who had both same and other-sex attractns also got swept up the “homosexual” label rather than beg acknowledged as “bisexual”.
In other words, “homosexual”, and, eventually, “gay”, evolved as the flt labels polil disurse for everyone who engag same-sex timacy, whether or not they also have different-sex romantic partners and one public example of rrectg an erasure attempt, actrs Anna Pacqu attracted prs verage 2014 when televisn prenter Larry Kg asked her if she was a “non-practicg bisexual” bee her hband, Stephen Moyer, is a cis-genr man. Clark Kent will reportedly be killed off and replaced wh his son, who will e out as gay.