CBR ntributor Alan Kistler brgs a tailed history of LGBT characters and ncepts superhero ics om Tijuana Bibl to the creatn of Northstar and Alan Stt's reimagg as a gay man.
Contents:
- GAY AND GRAPHIC
- TAG: GAY COMICS
- TOP 10 GAY WEBTOON COMICS THAT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT
- GAY COMIC STRIPS - PAGE 2
GAY AND GRAPHIC
A good chunk of the days, weeks, or sometim even years when a person wonrs if they might be gay are often spent bookstor and librari. Sce... * gay rights comic strip *
Bee of this, mastream ic stori were rtricted for s, and wasn’t until 1989 that a gay, bi, queer or transgenr superhero was allowed to openly appear mastream Amerin ic books produced by pani such as Marvel and Amerin ic book dtry began the 1930s and the superhero genre tly took off after Superman’s but “Actn Comics #1” 1938.
”READ MORE: Fear of a Gay Batman Brought Batwoman to LifeTen years after Superman’s but as the “champn of the opprsed, ” psychiatrist Dr. He specifilly targeted horror ics and, to a lser gree, superhero stori for allegedly ntag subversive msag enuragg crime, vlence, loose sexual morals, anarchy, homosexualy and a nfn of genr rol. When the team later got s own seri, -creator John Byrne cid that Alpha Flight member Jean-Pl Bebier, also lled Northstar, was gay.
TAG: GAY COMICS
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(Cred: Bettmann/Getty Imag)It is worth notg that 1982, the year that Capta Ameri learned and accepted that his childhood bt iend was gay, was the same year that the medil muny officially adopted the acronym AIDS to replace unofficial, idmatic terms like “gay ncer, ” “gay plague” or even GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency). In 2006, 50 years after she was troduced to quell accatns that Batman was gay, a new versn of Batwoman named Kate Kane was troduced as an openly gay hero who had left Wt Pot due to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. A good chunk of the days, weeks, or sometim even years when a person wonrs if they might be gay are often spent bookstor and librari.
TOP 10 GAY WEBTOON COMICS THAT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT
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One of the easit ways to learn about gay history is by tchg up wh vtage ic strips—though those of over 40 might blanch to hear the 1980s scribed as “vtage.
) Cse’s semi-tobgraphil graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby, about growg up gay the segregated South of the 1960s, is also amazg. Like Wenl, Barela’s long-nng seri Leonard & Larry, partially llected this volume, was a ntug saga about the everyday liv of gay Amerins.
König’s wonrfully sexual gay rtoons often show up alternative ics llectns, but The Killer Condom, a fx noir set a nightmare versn of New York Cy, is his bt-known work.
GAY COMIC STRIPS - PAGE 2
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This 2013 release om Northwt Prs, which specializ LGBTQ ics, is a pilatn of strips about the space between and beyond “heterosexual” and “homosexual.
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. 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!
In Dark Horse Prents #40, they began a story set a dystopian future where homosexualy had taken over and heterosexualy was crimalized.
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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.
) 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.
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.