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Contents:

• MEET TV’S BLACK, GAY SUPERHERO: HOOD JTICE
• HOW THE NEW GAY AQUAMAN IS BEG RETRODUCED BY A BLACK SOCAL WRER
• MARVEL’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO DEFEATS EVIL, MAK HISTORY ETERNALS TRAILER
• LEE DANIELS SAYS HOLLYWOOD WON’T MAKE HIS BLACK, GAY SUPERHERO MOVIE
• MEET MISTER TERRIFIC, TV'S FIRST BLACK GAY SUPERHERO, ON 'ARROW'
• TV IS GETTG A BLACK GAY SUPERHERO

MEET TV’S BLACK, GAY SUPERHERO: HOOD JTICE

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.

HOW THE NEW GAY AQUAMAN IS BEG RETRODUCED BY A BLACK SOCAL WRER

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. She first appeared as Batman’s love tert the 1950s, shortly after the publitn of Sctn of the Innocent, a book that acced Batman of homosexual propaganda.

In recent years she was rewrten to be gay herself, a ntroversial cisn that led to some problems of s her ic’s creators wanted her to marry her girliend, DC nixed the cisn by sayg hero “shouldn’t have happy personal liv, ” a dub statement that sounds pretty ridiculo the ntext of, say, Superman. After years of hts, he me out as gay 1992. LGBTQ and gay superhero list:Wonr Woman (DC Comics).

MARVEL’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO DEFEATS EVIL, MAK HISTORY ETERNALS TRAILER

When Jordan’s Green Lantern buted 1959, Stt was relegated to an alternate universe and, over the s, he’s retired, returned to crime-fightg, been tossed limbo, bee an elr statman, and been rebooted as a young gay crimefighter on yet another alternate Earth.

LEE DANIELS SAYS HOLLYWOOD WON’T MAKE HIS BLACK, GAY SUPERHERO MOVIE

This year, Green Lantern Alan Stt returned to his roots as an olr WWII-era hero who has “walked this Earth for a long time, much longer than should have been allotted, ” as he said March’s “Infe Frontier” the same issue, penned by bisexual wrer Jam Tynn IV, the gray-haired rg-slger out as gay to his adult children, the superhero duo Ja and Obsidian. ”Capta Ameri"The Uned Stat of Capta Ameri" ic book verMarvelIn June, Marvel’s “The Uned Stat of Capta Ameri” miseri hs stor, troducg rears to a variety of everyday people om all walks of life who’ve taken up the mantle of Capta Ameri to fend their is gay teenager Aaron Fischer, “the Capta Ameri of the Railways, ” scribed a release as “a fearls teen who stepped up to protect fellow naways and the unhoed.

“I am happy to be able to prent an openly gay person who admir Capta Ameri and fights agast evil to help those who are almost visible to society, ” Bazaldua said a statement. The work’s acclaimed seri Watchmen jt had a watershed moment through the troductn of Hood Jtice/Will Reev, an openly gay Ain Amerin superhero. That said, makg what was a lovg relatnship the source material to a fetishized, ercive one is not the bt way to troduce a groundbreakg, Ain-Amerin gay superhero.

The TV seri portrays Capta Metropolis as someone who isn’t voted to fightg crime so much as a gay man to stumed roleplay. Aquaman: The Beg featur Jackson Hy, a young Black gay superhero currently known as Aqualad. The Eternals trailer offers the brieft of glimps at Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry), the first gay superhero a major Hollywood anchise.

MEET MISTER TERRIFIC, TV'S FIRST BLACK GAY SUPERHERO, ON 'ARROW'

Dcribed as an “telligent ventor” an acpanyg summary, the character will reportedly break ground by sharg the film stud’s first onscreen gay kiss wh his hband, played by out, gay Lebane actor Haaz an terview, Sleiman said the climactic smooch was an emotnal moment on set, pecially given s importance to LGBTQ+ reprentatn.

In a new terview, Lee Daniels says that he’s been fightg to get a superhero movie wh a Black, gay lead off the Osr-nomated director sat down wh the news webse Insir on Monday to discs Superbch, a project he announced last year wh Instagram star Dremon Cooper. ” “Ya’ll remember maybe 10, 12 years ago I said my dream was to make a gay superhero film? Marvel’s The Eternals will feature the stud’s first gay superhero, and the character isn’t whe.

TV IS GETTG A BLACK GAY SUPERHERO

Lebane-Amerin actor Haaz Sleiman (Ltle Ameri), who is himself an out, gay man, will portray Phastos’ Stud head Kev Feige has also announced that a trans superhero is head to the MCU, although he offered few tails about the character’s inty or the actor who would be portrayg them. ”It remas to be seen whether the characters will be blk-and-you-miss- teas, like a much-publicized gay character Avengers: Endgame who, actualy, appeared for about 30 sends.

That's the journey that I've had as a gay Black filmmaker. The MCU jt troduced 's first gay superhero last year, and we're seeg more and more gay hero on though 's simply fictn, we all know know how spirg your favore superhero n be. At a time where lawmakers across the natn are phg homophobic and transphobic legislatn and rhetoric, 's important to have out gay and bi hero like the our TV are 12 gay and bi male superhero we jt n't get enough of.