How Gay Is Superman?

[rivkat]

LA Times story. Excerpt from the Advocate story that sparked it.

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Best blog post title answering the question.

Bonus: actual trading card in which Superman comes out of the closet.

Comments

[irishabastard.livejournal.com]

While forced to admit that I haven't been able to track down a meaning for patishe, Marvel is much better at diversity in all its forms than DC. In the new Ultimates line, Peter Rasputin (Colossus) is gay, and Northstar has been gay as long as I can remember. Arguably the most powerful mutant in the universe is a woman (Jean 'Phoenix' Gray), Magneto is Jewish, there are also multiple main characters who are of Asian, Hispanic, and African descent.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

While forced to admit that I haven't been able to track down a meaning for patishe

Um, helps if I spell it correctly: a 'pastiche' is a picture or musical composition made up of pieces from established works or a story written in the style of a well-know author and I kind of blend to two meanings here to say that comics have their "gay batman" types but no original gay characters as the central character in their own books. At least so far.