Signs Of The Times
We salute you, happy gay people of Red Pegasus Comics in Dallas, Texas. Source: Sign outside a Dallas comic shop on the day the Supreme Court OK’d gay marriage – Boing Boing
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John Ostrander: Happily Never After?
There was some discussion when the creative team on DC’s Batwoman, J.H. Williams and W. Haden Blackman, resigned after editorial decided that the title character, Kate Kane, would not be allowed to marry her fiancée, Maggie Sawyer. DC has tried to clarify that they are not anti-gay marriage but anti any marriage. Dan DiDio, DC…
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Michael Davis: Milestone Media Announces Static Shock is Gay
No. No we didn’t. I was sent the accompanying image by a fan that asked me, as co-creator of the character, what I thought of it. The image is of Virgil Hawkins (Static) making out with his best friend Richie. Frankly, it didn’t bother me and I was much more concerned with how this woman…
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Mindy Newell: The Sexual Preferences Of Wonder Woman, or The Hero’s Journey Part II
Before continuing, I must say mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa. I made a major error last week. My terrific correspondent in last week’s column is not Bill Hannigan. He is Bill Mulligan. As in – sing along, folks – m-u-double l-i-g-a-n spells Mulligan. I cannot explain it, but can only blame it on my…
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Marc Alan Fishman: Flame On! Being Gay In Comics
Over at my Unshaven Comics facebook page (shameless plug, shameless plug), I wanted to tip the scales of our “likes” from the paltry 320 to 400 by the end of the summer. So, I begged and pleaded with our fan-base to pull in some like-minded friends to come like us. One of our fans (who…
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A response to Catholic Online about homosexuality in comics
Thanks to Earth 2’s Green Lantern Alan Scott being reimagined as a gay character, Catholic Online asks Are Comic Books Marketing Homosexuality to Children? A Troubling Sign of the Times: Superheroes should be protecting the innocent, catching bad guys, and serving up justice. Overt homosexual practice, and promoting the agenda related to promoting it, should…
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Peter David Wins GLAAD Award for ‘X-Factor’
On Saturday night, Peter David won an award from the the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation for his work on X-Factor and the portrayal of Rictor and Shatterstar. The Media Award recipients were announced in 25 of this year’s 32 media categories at the 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards presented in New York. Other…
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Notorious Bigots To Picket San Diego Comic-Con
You’ve probably heard of Fred Phelps and his Topeka Kansas Westboro Baptist Church. He and his followers have well-earned a reputation as the most notorious, tasteless bigots in America. They get their thrills by showing up in force at funerals to protest the lifestyle or the politics of the diseased. These un-American vultures prefer going…
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Catching Up With DC’s Lesbian Superheroes
Advocate.com recently posted this online-exclusive look at the lesbian superheroes of the DC Universe, specifically The Question and Batwoman, which features some thoughts on the subject from DC Executive Editor Dan DiDio and Crime Bible: The Five Lessons of Blood writer Greg Rucka, among others. "When we introduced Batwoman we wanted to make the readers…
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Courting justice with editorial cartoons
Mikhaela Reid is working on what she calls an "alternate reality cartoon" series for Lambda Legal (a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work) imagining what life might be like in a…
