12 Gay and Bi Male Superhero on TV We Love

Contents:

• THE FLASH CASTS BI ACTOR TO PLAY GAY DC COMICS VILLA
• ARROW AND THE FLASH STARS: IT'S TIME FOR A GAY SUPERHERO ON TV (VIO)
• NEW SUPERHERO TV SHOW ‘THE FLASH’ FEATUR GAY CHARACTERS FIRST SEASON
• SUPERHERO TV SHOW ‘THE FLASH’ TO FEATURE TWO GAY CHARACTERS
• SUPERHERO SERI THE FLASH TO FEATURE NOT ONE BUT TWO GAY CHARACTERS
• A MAJOR CHARACTER IS COMG OUT AS GAY & MORE ARROW, FLASH, SUPERGIRL & LEGENDS OF TOMORROW SOP

THE FLASH CASTS BI ACTOR TO PLAY GAY DC COMICS VILLA

Fan NewsThe Evolutn of Extraño, DC's First Openly Gay SuperheroBY: Alex Jaffe. For over fifty years, not a sgle openly gay superhero uld be found on DC’s pag. One of the dividuals was Gregor De La Vega, a gay Pevian stage magician who cintally shar his surname wh Zorro.

ARROW AND THE FLASH STARS: IT'S TIME FOR A GAY SUPERHERO ON TV (VIO)

But his wake, many characters even olr than he beme open about their own inti as gay men.

A queer thor himself, Orlando felt was time to brg back DC’s origal gay character om limbo to help celebrate DC’s first ic headled by an openly gay uple. “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. 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.

NEW SUPERHERO TV SHOW ‘THE FLASH’ FEATUR GAY CHARACTERS FIRST SEASON

(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. 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.

SUPERHERO TV SHOW ‘THE FLASH’ TO FEATURE TWO GAY CHARACTERS

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.

SUPERHERO SERI THE FLASH TO FEATURE NOT ONE BUT TWO GAY CHARACTERS

LGBTQ and gay superhero list:Wonr Woman (DC Comics). Star Cy Police Capta David Sgh (Patrick Sabongui) is openly gay, havg married his partner Rob earlier the also wasn't clear if the new LGBT character is a new character that has yet to be announced or is among those fans already know are g season five.

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.

A MAJOR CHARACTER IS COMG OUT AS GAY & MORE ARROW, FLASH, SUPERGIRL & LEGENDS OF TOMORROW SOP

There he teams up wh another gay hero, The Ray, to fight agast the New Reichsmen, a supervilla-led dictatorship that l the earth. Q-Force Agent Steve Merryweather is the bt spy the untry, but bee he's gay, he was relegated to stg Wt Hollywood whout a missn.

Curtis Holt is a gay man, scientist, and former Olympic bronze medalist who be the hero Mr.

Set the same Gotham Cy more well-known for ped csars like Batman and Rob, Batwoman is the first superhero TV show whose lead character is an openly gay woman.

Iceman — was a gay man, and the way unfold was unique a way that uld only happen a superhero ic. So when the teen Jean Grey tak the teen Iceman asi 2015's All-New X-Men #40 to reveal that she knows he's gay, there is also an olr versn of Iceman out there the world who has been datg women for his entire adult life. How uld he be gay if his future unterpart isn't?

In 1992, Marvel Comics ma history wh s first openly gay superhero. In Alpha Flight #106, durg a battle wh the World War II era superhero Major Mapleleaf, Northstar adms that he's gay.