Gay Superhero: 12 Inic LGBTQ Characters Marvel and DC Comics

Contents:

• BATMAN V SUPERMAN: 11 OF THEIR GAYT MOMENTS
• JAM GUNN CONFIRMS DARKER, GAY VERSNS OF SUPERMAN AND BATMAN THE AUTHORY MOVIE

BATMAN V SUPERMAN: 11 OF THEIR GAYT MOMENTS

'You do you':People share their emotnal stori to help others on Natnal Comg Out DayNatnal Comg Out Day:Publicly gay pro baseball player creat support group for othersJon Kent's same-sex relatnship is also not the only parture om the origal Superman’s life, The New York Tim noted. “Characters that were unknown to most of the general public — like Starman, say, or Maggie Sawyer, or Green-Lantern-no-not-the-active-one-wh-a-seri-but-the-olr-one-nobody-outsi-of-ics-fandom-knows-by-name — uld be gay, but Superman had to be able to sell movie tickets and toothpaste the Midwt.

“You n see a clear shift between so-lled ‘gay vague’ marketg and queer normalizatn mastream advertisg around 2015, ” Grayson ntu. A gay, or bi, or ace, or trans superhero might be a small and ut gture, but every gture tak on outsized meang when speakg out is self a source of fear. The long history of the ped csar is ltered wh homoerotic subtext, but recent years has bee much more than subtext.

One of the origal X-Men, Bobby Drake is probably one of the most high-profile hero to e out recent is easier for publishers to make queer characters si-characters or one-offs, makg Iceman gay was a huge shift for ics. Not only did the character have a history on the screen, but when to the X-Men, Iceman is one of the stars who will no doubt appear Marvel tl until the day when Marvel shuts he hasn't been onscreen sce he me out officially, if the character do appear the future, makg him anythg but gay would fely e an uproar. When to queer ic book characters, one of the first and most important was Northstar, who was the first character a Marvel ic to e out as gay "Alpha Flight" #106 (1992) then, the mutant superhero has had a sttered rerd of appearg the ics, but 2012 ma history once aga by beg part of the first gay weddg Marvel ics history.

JAM GUNN CONFIRMS DARKER, GAY VERSNS OF SUPERMAN AND BATMAN THE AUTHORY MOVIE

To celebrate the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Jtice, PkNews tak a look at the superhero’ most homoerotic moment. The Authory is one of the newly announced DCU movie projects, likely brgg to the big screen well-known gay versns of Superman and Batman. Some of the first openly gay characters ics, their dynamic will likely be a huge paradigm shift the DCU movi.

Though they were stand-s for the straight ins Superman and Batman, the two were tablished the pag of StormWatch-followup The Authory as beg a gay uple. This was a few years after Marvel hero Northstar was revealed as gay, though the fact that the two were so clearly based on the biggt superhero of all time ma much bigger wav.

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.

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.