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Contents:
- IS SUPERMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
- IS SUPERMAN GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?
- IS DC REALLY MAKG SUPERMAN GAY?
- IN SHOCKG TWIST ON INIC CHARACTER, SUPERMAN REPORTEDLY OUT AS GAY
IS SUPERMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
Are the mors te? IS DC really makg Superman gay? Well…about that. Here's how that mor got started. * if superman was gay *
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.
IS SUPERMAN GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?
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. * if superman was gay *
There are superhero stori over the years, though, that have qutned the genre’s terlked mments to homosexual panic and to vlence. Superman, many of his eratns, is most sred not of Kryptone but of femy, which has stereotypilly been lumped together wh homosexualy.
LGBTQIA+ Reprentatn Marvel and DC icsNorthstarOne of the first gay superhero, Northstar buted X-Men ics 1979. In , different people feature and bee new Caps to protect their muni—one of whom is gay teenager Aaron Drake, aka, RobTim Drake is the third Rob, partner to Batman, butg 1989. PhastosBrian Tyree Henry will play the first gay character the MCU Eternals, Phastos.
IS DC REALLY MAKG SUPERMAN GAY?
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.
IN SHOCKG TWIST ON INIC CHARACTER, SUPERMAN REPORTEDLY OUT AS GAY
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.