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COMIC BOOKS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN GAY
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. * wonder woman gay comic *
“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.
But as some of the homophobic and transphobic rpons to Carter's tweet show, Diana's bisexualy seems to ignored certa perceptns of the character. And the only optns are an Amazon don’t look at another Amazon and say, 'You’re gay.
'WONR WOMAN' ICS WRER REVEALS CHARACTER IS GAY
From Wonr Woman to Northstar, here are some of the most groundbreakg LGBTQ characters and gay superhero Marvel and DC Comics non. * wonder woman gay comic *
They’re gay!
In the Post-Crisis Wonr Woman Annual #1, we see the brother of Diana's publicist, Myndi Mayer, e out to talk about how Mayer accepted him for beg gay, spe the rt of his fay mistreatg him.
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Durg the paranoia surroundg ics the 50s, many "experts" child psychology feared exposure to ics would turn children to homosexuals, cg both the relatnship between Bce Wayne and Dick Grayson and the relatnships between the Amazons as proof of homo-erotic subtext. 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.