Andy Mangels was the third and fal edor for Gay Comix, and he ma some amazg chang as well as documentg s history.
Contents:
- QUEER AND HERE AT COMIC-CON: 25 YEARS OF GAYS COMICS
- TAG: GAY COMICS
- GAY COMIX HISTORY WH ANDY MANGELS
- 10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY
- GAY GEEK GUI
QUEER AND HERE AT COMIC-CON: 25 YEARS OF GAYS COMICS
Posts about Gay Comics wrten by queerstorian * gay comic panels *
Among the celebratns this weekend at Comic-Con Internatnal San Diego, one of the most noteworthy is Saturday's Gays Comics panel 25th year celebratn. “Out of the Closet and Into the Comics” addrsed Mangels’ personal experienc of g out as a gay man, and workg an dtry he loved, but was one that offered no support or reflectn of his own life. Viewed agast the current backdrop of gay-marriage bat, hip-hop performers g out of the closet and LGBT characters and shows stakg a claim pop culture, such advanc may seem ls than signifint.
TAG: GAY COMICS
Hall, who eded the new gay anthology “No Straight L: 40 Years of Queer Comics” (which also is celebrated wh a panel at Comic-Con), believ that queer ics and the people who create them ma their biggt advanc over the last .
GAY COMIX HISTORY WH ANDY MANGELS
To ensure would be more a celebratn than the regular qutn and answer panel, Mangels reached out to every panelist who has participated Gays Comics over the 25 years and asked them to attend.
One issue likley to e up is the worry that the current celebratn by the media of all thgs gay ild lead to queer characters and storyl beg add simply for polil rrectns or to jump on the zegeist. 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!
10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY
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.
GAY GEEK GUI
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.