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"As A Gay Man Growing Up And Reading These Stories, It Was Tremendously Inspirational And Encouraging To Me – Marvel VP Accepts Corporate Vanguard Award At Los Angeles LGBT Center
As a gay man growing up and reading these stories, it was tremendously inspirational and encouraging to me, and I hope we've done that for kids and young people and adults, for new generations. Cort Lane is Marvel's vice president of Animation Development On Saturday he was on hand to accept the Corporate Vanguard Award,[...]
Today, DC Comics Says Batman Is Gay. Discuss.
Gayness is built into Batman I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay There's just no denying it Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay. But then told New Statesman, "Is gay!" he finishes "But the thing is,[...]
Gays in Comics – It's a Queer, Queer World At San Diego Comic Con
By Joe Glass Saturday at Comic-Con saw the 27th annual Gays in Comics panel, organised by the awesome Prism Comics, an advocacy and support group for LGBT in the medium. First things first, it is WONDERFUL that there is a 27th one…that it's run so long and become such a fixture of the con programming is so[...]
Gay Group Turns Politician Into Comic Book Supervillain. Like He Wasn't Already.
 The Des Moines Register reports how local conservative politician Bob Vander Plaats has been turned into a comic book schoolyard supervillain Bull Von Ploots in a comic book starring superhero-schoolgirl-with-two-mothers, Mighty Moxy. Vander Plaats is also the CEO  of The Family Leader and a leading anti gay marriage advocate. The comic, Find Your Voice, was sold for $12[...]
ComiXology Rejects Dale Lazarov's First-To-Digital Gay Erotic Comics
But not all books are so lucky. Dale Lazarov, gay erotic comics writer/editor, writes, Hello, bleeders! Here's an illustrated version of an e-mail I sent earlier today to John D Roberts, Director of ComiXology Submit & Digital Storytelling He'd just informed me that ComiXology is not publishing my comics Bulldogs #1 and Nightlife #4, two first-to-digital comics[...]
Why I Will See Every Film Ellen Page Is In From Now On, Forever
About halfway through Page proclaimed, "I'm gay," not proudly but nervously, evident by the way her right hand fluttered about while her left arm was glued to her side Her deteriorating confidence, and near breakdown at the end of her speech, made her words all the more genuine This wasn't some Oscar acceptance speech where[...]
Al-Qaeda's Super Secret Gay Weapon Blocked By Apple iBooks
"Not to put down porn—there are great publishers and artists putting our great gay porn comics—but this just isn't that type of book It's a clever satire that sends up hypermasculinity, fear of gays in the military, religious and cultural stereotypes… while it's got some explicit content, there's relatively little considering the length of the[...]
And Now America's Typical Teenage Girl Is Gay, Thanks To Archie Comics
And also, and it bears mentioning, here's a sentence you'd never have thought anyone would type only a few years ago. "Archie's second gay couple are an interracial couple, like the first." UPDATE: Wrong Ginger! From the top! @JonTrouten @bleedingcool Jon is correct If that helps figuring which Ginger is Ginger, Ginger Lopez has a mole on the[...]
Support The Pride – The LGBTQLA (UPDATE)
The team is entirely made up of gay, bi, lesbian, trans and allied characters, with one mission statement in mind (to start, anyway): to change the way the world looks at queer heroes and improve representation. Needless to say, as with all good superhero stories, some stuff happens and it sets their journey hurtling in very[...]
Dale Lazarov And Changing Digital Comic Content Considerations
Gay erotic comic creator Dale Lazarov writes to his latest digital comic book distributor Possibly And shares it with Bleeding Cool; Dear [name redacted]: It's encouraging to hear that you're happy with the gay smut you publish And you do come off as someone I would like to do business with; you're very charming But, don't hate[...]
Wizards Vs Aliens To Feature Openly Gay Lead Character?
After a request from the BBC to include gay characters in their series, the producers of SJA decided that Luke, Sarah Jane's adopted son was intended to come out while at university However, the death of Elisabeth Sladen and the subsequent cancellation of the show put paid to that plan. But now, with the second series[...]
Gay Stereotype Superman Dooms Bill And Ted's Hallowe'en Show
Also terrible.. The focus of their ire was the portrayal of Superman, who was "turned gay" by being sprinkled with "fairy dust" before turning into a string of gay stereotypes played for laughs Vice.com reported; After becoming gay, Superman's voice and posture changes His lips purse, his toes point inward, and his wrists become limp[...]
The Gay Flash Thompson That Never Was (UPDATE)
He reports to Bleeding Cool that during a conversation about working with certain writers, Ultimate Spider-Man artist Mark Bagley revealed that there had been a plan to make the Ultimate Spider-Man version of Flash Thompson a gay man at one point, in a similar fashion as to how they ended up recreating Ultimate Colossus But[...]
Your Week In Squee – Young Avengers, Avengers Arena and Wolverine & The X-Men
Lovely. But wait, didn't we have a bunch of cliffhangers to deal with last issue? Including a certain kiss? What was up with that? For the whys and the wherefore's, you'll have to read the comic, but is Prodigy the first Marvel to self-identify as bisexual? It's not quite Northstar's "—For I am gay!!!" is it? Of[...]