Is The World Ready For A Gay Mormon Superhero?

[trdsf]

You know, there have been gay super heroes for years, now. Element Lad comes to mind.

I always thought that outfit was more of a personal ad... symbolism much?

[aitm]

I always thought that outfit was more of a personal ad... symbolism much?

I've never even heard of this dude but yeah…HELLO!!

[Aletheia]

Gay superhero?

[Munch]

I've never even heard of this dude but yeah…HELLO!!

His costumes almost saying "my face is up here, follow it", which is odd given like most male superheroes, their skin tight costimes make it look more like they have cameltoe

[stromboli]

(Stromboli is learning a lot from this thread. He is taking notes)

[trdsf]

I've never even heard of this dude but yeah…HELLO!!

Seriously?  The Mike Grell Legion issues in the 70s provided a definite kickstart to my hormonal development.  :)

[the_antithesis]

Seriously?  The Mike Grell Legion issues in the 70s provided a definite kickstart to my hormonal development.  :)

What the hell are you talking about?

Cosmic Boy




And Batman's not gay.



Seriously. They decide to make the original Green Lantern gay, but not Batman? Why the fuck not?

[Munch]

Seriously. They decide to make the original Green Lantern gay, but not Batman? Why the fuck not?

Well.. lets be honest, the demographic they made batman for wouldn't have worked as well if catwoman was batmans fag-hag.

[the_antithesis]

Well.. lets be honest, the demographic they made batman for wouldn't have worked as well if catwoman was batmans fag-hag.

Yeah, but the demographic all those golden age super heroes were made for is not the demographic they're catering to now. Been that way since the start of the silver age and when comics publishers found out they had a market of man-children who were still reading comic books after they'd grown up.

[trdsf]

What the hell are you talking about?

Cosmic Boy

Yeah, that's pretty much the sort of thing I'm talking about.  And for some reason at the time I never connected my tropism for the lithe, muscular guys and utter obliviousness to the buxom girls and thought, "Hey, I'm gay!"  Different days... it's a lot easier to come out now than it was in 1978.

And Batman's not gay.



Seriously. They decide to make the original Green Lantern gay, but not Batman? Why the fuck not?

[Munch]

Yeah, but the demographic all those golden age super heroes were made for is not the demographic they're catering to now. Been that way since the start of the silver age and when comics publishers found out they had a market of man-children who were still reading comic books after they'd grown up.

agreed, still sadly it seems its a case by case basis with the writers. They made one of the alternative reality wolverines (or just james howlett) in a relationship with hercules, even made the main timeline wolverine come across the alternative timeline one and comment to himself about his alternative self and hercules doing it.

Sadly, we're probably never get something as mainstream as a major player doing this, because there is still that sense of current media not quite progressive enough to make full on openly gay main characters without the usual backlash of bullshit. Its at a stage now where northstar can marry his boyfriend and everyones like 'aww, isn't that nice', instead of 2 decades ago where him coming out was like 'omg a fag superhero!". So its a step, but gonna take a lot more work for mediums like comic books, tv, games and movies to make mainstream gay characters.

[aitm]

man-children who were still reading comic books after they'd grown up.

hell we got man-children who are followers of my little pony……

[Atheon]

[Solitary]

I'll take this kind of super hero:   Solitary

[the_antithesis]

So into the Batwoman/Question dealie, Sol?