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• 'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)

'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)

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.

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I remember when Batwoman beme the pany’s first gay character to headle a book 2009, and Midnighter beme DC’s first solo seri for a gay man 2015, and the long stretch of the 2010s when Wonr Woman, and Harley Qun, and Poison Ivy, and John Constante were fally allowed to be irrevobly queer. Fredric Wertham wrote "Sctn Of The Innocent, " a book that alleged, among other thgs, that Wonr Woman was a lbian and that Batman and Rob were gay lovers. Although Wertham's allegatns have been long been ridiculed by the ics muny, some dtry sirs like Joe Phillips see a gay subtext throughout the superhero genre.

He says he's fascated by the unrlyg "gayns" of the superhero, and he's takg out of the closet and to a seri of patgs he lls "Beefke Hero, " currently on display at a San Diego art gallery.