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DC NCELS GAY SUPERMAN IC AMID SAL CLE

'You do you':People share their emotnal stori to help others on Natnal Comg Out DayNatnal Comg Out Day:Publicly gay pro baseball player creat support group for othersJon Kent's same-sex relatnship is also not the only parture om the origal Superman’s life, The New York Tim noted. And sce, at the time, he’d temporarily taken over as Superman while his father was off-world, generated headl about Superman beg gay. The se you are about to enter ntas ntent that is homoerotic and graphic nature.

If you are unr the age of 18, offend by gay ntent, or superhero peril, TURN AWAY NOW!

So, wh that said, is Superman gay, bisexual, or straight? Of urse, while there have been gay and bisexual characters before, this is the first time that a poster boy character like Superman was revealed to be gay or bisexual.

IS SUPERMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?

Fally, they start nudgg a few top-tier characters out of the closet — but are always reful never to send 'em out whout first attachg an all-important asterisk, as a bulwark agast any backlash om homophobic rears (and/or stockholrs): Rob's queer! This is a dynamic which led homophobic cric Fredric Wertham to suggt the 1950s that superhero (pecially Batman and Rob) promoted homosexualy through their privilegg of male/male bonds. The pot here isn’t that Superman was really gay those early ics.

But the obssn wh double inty and disavowed sire do suggt that the character has been built on anxieti about homosexualy and masculy. ) But at the same time, refg to date women also mak Superman ls than fully male a homophobic, misogynist culture which se homosexualy as feme and therefore lser. There are superhero stori over the years, though, that have qutned the genre’s terlked mments to homosexual panic and to vlence.

'HOW GAY IS SUPERMAN?'

Superman, many of his eratns, is most sred not of Kryptone but of femy, which has stereotypilly been lumped together wh homosexualy. The new Capta Ameri is gay.

My dghter [The CW seri] Supergirl, where I played the father, was gay.

DID DC COMICS ‘MAKE SUPERMAN GAY’?

“Brave would be havg him fightg for the rights of gay people Iran where they’ll throw you off a buildg for the offense of beg gay, ” Ca ntued.

And a new Aquaman ic stars a gay Black man who is posned to bee the tle has been a steady evolutn for an dtry that had moved to censor self a number of ways after “Sctn of the Innocent, ” a 1954 book by the psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, raised ncerns about sex, gore and vlence and suggted a lk between readg ics and juvenile lquency.

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