Posted on 12/23/2015 8:08:45 PM PST by reaganaut1
When the mutant superhero Iceman came out last month - thanks to a one-two punch of his prying telepathic teammate and a time-travel visit from his younger self - he immediately became the most prominent gay comic book character. But his revelation was far from the only story line involving gay, lesbian and transgender characters in the fast-evolving world of comic-book narratives.
In October, Alysia Yeoh, a transgender friend of Batgirl, and her girlfriend Jo were married in a simple ceremony unmarred by super-villainy; Peter Parker, perhaps better known as Spider-Man, attended the wedding of Max Modell, his scientific mentor and gay colleague; and Wiccan and Hulkling, a superpowered gay couple, joined a division of the Avengers along with Hawkeye and Songbird. In August, Wonder Woman officiated a lesbian wedding, and since June, fans have been treated to the monthly adventures of Midnighter, who is out about his heroic identity and his sexual orientation. That month also saw the first issue of "Stripling Warrior," which features superheroes that are gay and lesbian - and Mormon.
"The industry is catching on pretty quickly to the fact that diversity can improve sales of comics," Josh Siegel, founder of Geeks Out, wrote in an email. "So publishers are evolving their lines of books to showcase queer characters in a number of interesting ways."
Geeks Out seeks to build a fan community from a shared passion for pop culture. In June, the group inaugurated Flame Con in Brooklyn. "Both lead characters and supporting cast-members are now openly queer in many comics, allowing stories to explore different kinds of queer themes," Mr. Siegel wrote.
And while superheroes - thanks to their longevity and their exploitation in animation, television series and big-budget films - may often hog the spotlight
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I really do hope that the NYT burns to the ground.
Throw up...
They’re not just corrupting children, they’re terminating their bloodline...and condemning them to an early grave.
Been around a while.
Damn you! Beat me to it.
They already turned the golden-age Green Lantern into a filthy sodomite. Heaping degradation onto a character that had its roots in war-time, 1940s America. An America that wouldn’t stand by, while perverts turn their culture and their country into a child-molesters paradise. Unlike today.
Natural laws learned over thousands of years were mocked, ridiculed, overturned, and even outlawed. Toward the end, homosexual drill sergeants prowled the barracks grooming receptive teenage recruits. Hey, we were told, it’s their business, and who are you to judge them? Later, they could get married in the post-interfaith worship center by a military spiritual advisor (’chapels’ and ‘chaplains’ having been purged from the lexicon for favoring the Christian faiths) and then move on to adopting children.
And finally, the last old-guard bunker to fall: the Boy Scouts, completing the cycle of government-approved sodomite corruption. For a century the Scouts were morally straight? According to whose definition of straight? So why shouldn’t adult homosexual Scout leaders share tents with teenagers in our brave new world? Don’t be a homophobe, we were told. Each child can make his or her own free choice about their gender identity, but now with helpful adult mentors to guide them along the formerly forbidden paths.
If it feels good, do it. Or have it done to you. Or even do it unto the little children. Tommy wants to become Tomasina before heading to kindergarten? Her brave new mommy agrees? A government-provided surgeon will perform the ‘gender reassignment’ operation. And if kindergarten isn’t soon enough to put the kids on the unrepressed road to gender identification, then start them on Heather Has Two Mommies and Prince and Prince cartoon books in the government-subsidized day care centers.
Smiling experts assured us that we were merely throwing off the shackles of our repressed sexualities. Dissent is hate, and hate is not tolerated around here, mister, so shut up and get with the program. Well, I couldn’t get with the program, so I quit my public high school job. As a world history teacher, moving from a public school to a Christian academy (at less pay and fewer benefits) gave me a couple more years of insulation from the social wreckage cascading down.
I kept looking up for the big asteroid, but we didn’t need God to smite us from outer space. In the end, we smote ourselves with our hubris, believing that we were replacing God’s wisdom with our own. The proud decadence and in-your-face cultural perversions didn’t cause the Rupture, but they were surely flashing red signs warning that the end was near.
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/bracken-alas-brave-new-babylon/
This an absolute case in point.
They will have a reckoning with God.
Where DID you get that?!
Damn, makes me long for the normal, wholesome comics of my early teens. Titles like Sex to Sexty, Vampirella, Creepy, Eerie, Tales of the Crypt, OK maybe they just seem Wholesome compare to the queer promoting craptastic comics of today!
Sexual deviancy is a big seller these days. Perverts as “super heroes”. Yeah, okay.
3 1/2 years ago Hitler went on a rant over gay Green Lantern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qacMRz-X4As
One of your best. Beer on my monitor when Hitler says that soon they’re going to be in his army...
Liberals ruin everything.
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