X-Force originally had Shatterstar, Rictor, and Doop before Bloke, Phat and Vivisector even joined in. I like to overlook the fact that the X-men spinoff series is the one that’s full of the gay characters being a sign of marvels comfort, and just focus on the strange characters it comprises of. Seriously though, they need a gay bar for how many of them are floating around. ^_^
Wiccan and Hulkling, Wiccans original name was Asguardian, which his teammates decide he needs to change before local media realize that him and Hulkling are an item. :p They are a fantastic and popular couple, both being cool and sweet characters and developing a great young relationship. Their relationship continues to be portrayed more and more within the comics, kissing, bedroom innuendo, sleeping in the same bed, etc. Because they are so openly a gay couple, there is an extensive amount of fanfic written and drawn surrounding the characters. Their stories continue to develop both as an item and separately as they deal with things and figure their lives out. I hope to look forward to neither of them dying of aids, just dying at all, or breaking up to have their sexuality never being seen again and have some reassurance due to their writer being openly gay and interested in giving the next batch of teens some gay superhero role models. I would look forward to Runaways as much, but they keep killing off their characters so I just cant get attached to Karolina knowing that it is only a matter of time. An extra is Daken, a potentially queer character who is also an evil sociopath and killer. A son of Wolverine who inherited healing and bone claws and emits sexy pheromones to help him manipulate everyone including much flirted with teammate Bullseye. I'm pretty sure he is a Pansexual, gender doesn't matter, neither does being a different being, even The Thing wasn't safe from his advances. Am quite curious on how he plays out in his own series titled Daken. As for Batman and Robin, I can only feel that Dick grayson Robin might have, in a way, a complex that might involve Batman. I mean, who, when near Batman can resist the Goddamn Batman. I'm pretty sure he is one of those characters that the straight boys commonly consider their would 'go gay for' choice. Along with Neil Patrick Harris. I can only assume that Captain Jack Harkness doesn't make that list out of fear of his ability to go from normal to naked sex games in seconds. Anyway, back on topic, In Nightwings later years when confronted with a situation of walking in on a bashing of a gay cop and stepping in, was posed with the question "What are you, Grayson, his boyfriend?!" Grayson wouldn't budge on his defense and replied with a "What if I am!". Even if hes not a closeted bisexual, I love him even more.
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Rictor and Shatterstar are well known for their dramatic smooch and Rictor particularly had some really fun moments previous to his coming out. Shatterstars original creator claims that next time he gets a chance to get back on the Shatterstar wagon he is going to undo this all. Undoing a great deal of issues worth of 'between the lines' signs that their relationship was more than just a friendship. The creator claims that it is ridiculous that such a manly gladiator/spartan character would be gay. Kind of like how there are no gay soldiers, lumberjacks, firefighters or any burly men. O.o
Ultimate Spiderwoman is literally a peter parker clone and had a great deal of his memories meaning also a strong love and attraction for Mary Jane, which doesn't take long for Peter to realize. Without giving anything more away, I still don’t like kitty, probably even more now. Terry Berg, Green lanterns Kyle Rayners very assistant, ends up focused on for a strong story arc involving gay bashing when him and his boyfriend get attacked, Kyle becomes a mess about it, feeling that he failed Terry. Early in Terry and Kyles relationship Terry harbored quite a crush on Kyle. When Kyle was rejected by a gal he chased for a long time, Terry said something that Kyle took wrong and sent Terry off and upset. After Kyle found out that Terry was trying to be open with him about being gay and liking him, Kyle tracked him down and helped him come to terms with coming out, helping him through the process. It was believed that the gay bashing arc was to pay homeage to Matthew Shephard, also due to the resemblance. When Terry did wake from the attack, later in the hospital he found a green lantern ring copy left behind from Kyle, who left out of grief of what happened. Terry was meant to become the next big Green Lantern on earth, but stupidly asshat Hal came back 'the very next day' and Terry disappeared from writing. Gay green lantern, that would have gained an undying love from me. Vivisector and Phat (made to look like Eminem) play at a relationship to boost their reality shows ratings, then realize they can’t go forward with it anymore because they individually realize that they are gay, drop the act and admit their sexuality to each other, have a short romance, then find that their chemistry doesn't really last, perhaps because Vivi is smart and geeky and Phat is well, dumb white trash who occasionally looks like the blob. At least that is their interplay in a nutshell. Though you have to give points to Vivi for not letting Phats, at times, creepy appearance get in his way. The series they came from is actually under appreciated and has dynamic characters. I have looked into many of these characters in fairly good detail and many of them have interesting things about them in some form. Sometimes it is within what was originally planned for them, how they made history, how things had to be changed because people weren’t ready for it, or how different writers fought to make the character straight while others gay. It grew from a policy that wouldn't allow a character to ever out themselves, first outings, character not being ridiculous and creepy, them not dying of Aids or killing themselves shortly after outing, kisses, relationships, marriage, and finally portrayal of home life and suggestive scenes.
To provoke some interest here is some quick tidbits of info about some particular interesting characters, if you find one interesting you should google it for even more fun. Anole was a character who was originally created to be rejected by his homophobic parents and his friends and was to kill himself, it was going to end up furthering the character development of a straight character it would affect. They barely changed this and let Anole’s story continue, even making his family and hometown an accepting place, kind of to Northstar’s surprise. He was also mentored by both Northstar and Karma, having quite a few gay role models. Apollo married Midnighter (They look like Superman & Batman coupling) and they adopted a little girl together. Their relationship was accepted by everyone without a hitch. There wedding and living together is shown in the comic books, but during a controversial storyline, Apollo is raped, and Midnighter goes after the culprit incredibly violently. ^_^ There is also the great satisfaction of it being intentionally related and compared to Superman and Batman. Batwoman is very much a female Batman, being violent and dark but still being able to be georgous and has the look of a lipstick lesbian. She is the main character in her series which makes her pretty badass. Her character was originally created as a beard for Batman since haters were saying that Batman and Robins sharing the same bed had to stop. Bloke can change colors but apparently prefers pink, acts a bit stereotypical except for his extreme violence when in battle (beyond what wolverine is allowed to do now). Bunker is a new and exciting addition to Teen titans, being Mexican, quite cute and openly gay, and by openly gay, I may mean quite the flaming boy. Bonus of being on Red Robins team. Danny the street, is literally a sentient street (for those who didn’t catch that) meant to be the transvestite street and has very masculine stores, decorated with incredibly feminine upholstery. Graymalkin as a young boy was caught by his father experimenting with another boy and was attacked and buried alive, his mutant ability kicked in and he lived underground for hundreds of years, he has befriended Anole but still has a bit of issues and old fashioned thoughts. Alana Jobson Jackpot lived a short life, had a crush on who would come to replace her and Spider-man, who she would unknowingly confuse by being a redhead and calling Spider-man ‘Tiger’. :p Living lightning accidently outed himself to Great Lakes Avengers(GLA) member Flatman when he admitted that he was thinking of joining, but realized that GLA didn’t stand for Gay & Lesbian Alliance. Mystique is a bisexual who was in love with her long-time lover Destiny, they adopted Rogue together. They were originally supposed to be the birth parents of Nightcrawler (who is mostly quite homophobic and sometimes an ass), writers essentially felt that it would not go over well, because that would mean that mystique also would have been male having intercourse with Destiny, so they found a suitable devilish looking character to be the explained dad instead. Northstar is known as being the first gay character but wasn’t really shown as having a love life at all. He was written for a long while as dying from some scary and terrible disease and was meant to die of Aids, but they changed it to that he was really a fairy and he just had to go visit home for a bit, which healed him. Yup. They really couldn’t figure anything out about his character except that he was really really gay, and should die, but in a gay way, without having a sex or love life. No wonder he seemed a little ‘off’ later. Lets also pretend the story of the whole Aids dumpster baby never existed. Ever. Rawhide kid, in a special bunch of books released, ‘Slap stick leather’ which was marked with explicit content warnings had a very camp Rawhide kid, running around hitting on men, being exceptionally stylish, being surrounded by attractive women who wanted to sleep with him, and everyone else not understanding any of his campy gay pips. One thing that didn’t show up was Rawhide kid walking into a bar and saying “I’m looking for a man” while the bartender looks him up and down and says “I bet you are.” Unless I missed that part, in which Rawhide kid would have been thrilled. The books have no kissing, sex or even relationships, so the explicit content is a warning for Straights: This book is seriously camp. Or Gays: This book is seriously more camp than you knew existed, prepare to be offended. I liked it, seriously lol’d like I never had before, the whole damn way through. :p Yes it was like Queer eye for the straight guy at times but after a good facepalm I lol'd some more. It goes to show how straight guys view a gay man, prancing around thinking about clothes and men, hitting on them without them even knowing. Anole ~G~ (New X-men, Young X-men, Divided we stand)
Apollo, married Midnighter ~G~ (Stormwatch, The Authority) Batwoman ~L~ (Infinite Crisis, Batwoman) Bling ~B~ (New X-men, X-men Legacy) Bloke, Rainbow ~G~(X-Force) Brainiac 5~B~ (The Legion #1-31) Bunker ~G~ (Teen Titans) Creote~G~ (Birds of Prey) Colossus, Ultimate ~B~ (Ultimate X-men) Constantine, John. ~B~ (Hellblazer) Danny the Street, Literally a sentient street ~T~ (Doom Patrol) Destiny ~L~ (Uncanny X-men) Doop, Literal creature ~B~(X-Force, X-Statix) Fauna~L~ (Outsiders) Flatman~G~ (West coast avengers, Great lakes avengers) Freedom ring ~G~ (A few in, Marvel Team-up) Graymalkin ~G~ (X-men, Divided we stand) Holly Robinson, Catwoman (Catwoman, One Year Later) Hulkling ~G~ (Young Avengers, Secret Invasion) Ice maiden ~B~ (Justice League, One year later) Jackpot, Alana Jobson ~B~ (Secret Invasion w/spider-man) Jenny sparks~B~ (Stormwatch, The Authority) Jarvis, Ultimate~G~ (Ultimate Avengers) Karma ~L~ (New Mutants, Uncanny X-men) Karolina ~L~ (Runaways) Living Lightning ~B~ (West coast avengers) Marlo Chandler, The new Harpy ~Bcurious~ (The incredible Hulk) Midnighter~G~ (Stormwatch, The Authority, Midnighter) Moondragon~B~ (Avengers, Annihilation, Guardians of the Galaxy) Mystique~TB~ (X-men) Nico~Bcurious~ (Runaways) Northstar~G~ (Alpha flight, X-men) Obsidian~G~ (Justice league, Brightest day) Phat~G~(X-Force, X-Statix) Phyla-Vell, aka Quasar,~B~(4th)Captain Marvel (Annihilation, Guardians of the Galaxy) Rawhide kid~G~ (Rawhide kid Slap leather) Rictor~B~(X-Factor, X-Force, New Mutants) Sarah Rainmaker ~B~ (Stormwatch, Gen13) Savant~B~ (Birds of prey) Shatterstar ~B~ (X-Factor, X-Force, New Mutants) Spider-woman, Ultimate~B~ (Ultimate Spider-man) Spider-woman, MJ~B~ (Exiles) Starman III, Mikaal~G~ (Starman in 98’ and 2010) Strange Joe, Josie Hart~L~ (A few in: Fantastic Four) Sunfire II, Mariko ~L~ (Alternate universe-Exiles) Terry Berg, Kyle Rayners assistant ~G~ ( Green Lantern) The Question, Renee Montoya~L~ (Gotham Central, 52) Thunder ~L~ (Outsiders) Victoria Hand ~L~ (New Avengers) Vivisector ~G~(X-Force, X-Statix) Voodoo~B~ (WildC.A.T.S) Wiccan~G~ (Young Avengers, Civil War) Xavin~T~ (Runaways) This is by no means a full list, it is meant to ignore obscure or ridiculous characters, abusive closeted homophobes, or those who could have been lgbt, but were never written as such. Its for mainstream comic books with superheroes, trying to highlight important past characters and important new ones. Whether it offends some or not, despite many of the male characters being labeled gay, if they had serious female lovers I labelled them as Bi’s. I have found the 300 and counting list not useful since a great deal of it is based on rumor or opinion, and wikipedias cluttered and not updated. I didn’t include characters from Neil Gaimans work, especially Sandman, for his work includes wonderful variations of gender and sexuality throughout all of his work and deserves a list of its own. Watchmen had a great deal of lgbt characters within it as well, some obvious and some claimed potentials such as Rorschach but I don't know first hand. I tried my best to make a list, including the comics in which to look for these characters, generally for my own interest but also to give anyone checking out the list a chance to look into them, also to help me distinguish a few to invest into. X-Force was also full of gay characters. As for fairly new series that had lgbt characters and hopefully(in the case of Runaways) continuing story, I look forward to seeing more Young Avengers and Runaways. Well that's enough chatter for now, next time I will go into some interesting bits about some of the characters that really stand out. If Brett ever reads this, feel free to message me if I missed a gooder My apologies for my lack of proper grammar lately, it am having more troubles than usual writing something that makes sense. I will have to go back and reread my blogs written when I was sick and fix them up a bit.
I have mentioned reading a decent chunk of comic books lately due to finding a good sale and have decided to just toss in the list I was making of them anyway. I by no means have read all of them yet but will be over the next few months. This is a good time to mention that my love of comic books developed on the DC side, which is where most of my favourite characters remain. The sale items were almost all marvel, which I suggest happened because everyone is willing to pay full price for DC, thus Marvel clutters up the clearance racks. :p Its nice to have a chance to cut marvel since I am currently outnumbered with my friends allegiances. X-men and spider-man-gage and alberti X-men legacy-Divided he stands X-treme x-men- storm the arena Wolverine First Class-Ninjas, gods, and divas(13-16) X-factor secret invasion-David, Stroman, De landro, cucca Black Panther(storm marriage) Young x-men- Books of revelations(6-12) Young Avengers-Family matters(7-12) Runaways-Dead end kids (25-30) Runaways/Young avengers-Secret invasion(1-3) The mighty avengers-Secret invasion The avengers the initiative-secret invasion(14-19) Thunderbolts(106-109) Peter Parker Spider-man-one small break(27-28, 30-34) The pulse spiderman(1-5) Spider-man and the Black Cat-The evil that men do(1-6) Ultimate Spider-man-clone saga(97-105) Ultimate Spider-man-War of Symbiotes(123-128) The Amazing spider-man-Family ties Friendly Neighborhood spider-man-Derailed The Amazing spider-man -Secret invasion Marvel 70th Anniversary Collection Fantastic Four-Michael straczynski(527-532) Robin the teen wonder I have found some great comics and series’ in this bunch, finding a few that I hope to collect more of. The ones that were not in my taste only drained me a few dollars each, so thankfully I hold no regrets. I have always loved the Spider-man comics and am only a few volumes away from the end of the Ultimate Spider-man series. I have heard many good things about the young avengers and runaways comics and admit they have been good so far. The secret Invasion books have evoked some love/hate from me thus far. I might have a better feel of which writers/illustrators I like after getting through this batch but because of the great mass of them at one time its impossible to want to review them when there are more to read still. After the first day of getting a stack of comics I decided I should brush up on comics that had some LGBT characters. After going through info on the different groups I managed to find a nice batch on sale and on eBay to check out how the characters are developed and portrayed. So far I just find myself in love with the characters and relieved that it is often not their whole story or personality. The variety actually reminds me of myself and my friends. I hope I still feel this way after reading more. I am currently hoping to find someone to go with me to see Incendies. Last year I got the pleasure of watching a local play of Scorched and it was fantastic. Disturbing but fantastic. Even though the movie wont hold the extra work the talented actors got to put in to make it stage worthy, it will likely feel like you are living it, which is disturbing in its own way. I was sad I missed out on the animated movie The Illusionist (same director as The Triplets of Bellville). I am still patiently waiting for GREEN LANTERN, THOR, Captain America and DEADPOOL, RED SONJA, as well as, the next SPIDERBATX-IronSupeWOLVIE movies.
I have been reading various mangas such as Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicles, Various Yaoi and Yuri, as well as reading some Full metal alchemist and Inuyasha online again. TRC I have insurmountable respect for, having overlapping stories and characters so unique, lovable, and intertwined that I can only wish one day to imitate. As for watching I am enjoying season 2 of gargoyles the animated series(only during lunch breaks of course) and some Big Bang Theory. Finally I decided to return to a good manga and comic store as I had previously promised (A year ago.. ^^’’’’) and found out that they are closing down in only a few months. I now have been absorbed in comic books like a teenage boy with his first playboy. I decided to finally go through the trouble of posting a bit of my doodles ^,^ I couldnt scan them, so just whipped out my camera for now. They are just glimpses of the drawings I do. My little comp cant handle uploading so I had to even use the university computers. D: It will at least give you an idea of different styles and feels that I have been playing with. Hope you like them. Also they are totally NSFW, sorry that I couldnt figure out how to make the whole thing smaller. ^^' Okay, I feel its fairly obvious where I fall into the categories (An artist, a poet, a musician, and k....). I toil a bit in what few could call music(piano, guitar, + love to sing), art, and writing(OMG NOT POETRY). My biggest talent if were to be considered one would be my obsessive compulsive disorder issues of obsessive list making and hand washing. Luckily for you, I am also quite organized and label everything, so it is pick or choose what to read/find out about me. ^^ I am actually just finishing my degree, a double major in psychology and sociology. I just started learning how to play the piano a couple years ago and picked up a guitar to start trying to learn this last year. I just started drawing again at the beginning of this year, being inspired by Jacks sketchbook he left at my place. I also enjoy Working Out, Watching Anime(>130 now), Occasionally Fencing, Frequent Gaming, Rock Band, Playing Dnd, Reading Comic Books and Web comics, Manga, Fantasy books, and Articles. I am also Trans and a Bisexual, and have been involved and volunteering in the LGBT community for five years now. The following are things that have influenced me greatly and inspired me to keep trying with the arts, as well as, shaped me into the person that I am today.
Some of my Favourite Animes: Air Gear, Angel Sanctuary, Avatar, Beyond My Touch, Coyboy bebop, Darker Than Black, Escaflowne, Fooly Cooly, Fruits Basket, Full Metal Alchemist, Full Metal Panic!, Gintama, Juuousei, Kyou Kara Maoh!, Little Butterfly, Lovely Complex, Melancholoy of Haruhi, Minami-ke, Ouran High School Host Club, Passion, Princess Princess, Tsubasa Chronicles, Twelve Kingdoms, Where the Wind Goes, Zombie-Loan, InuYasha, Welcome to the N.H.K, XXXholic, and Yami no Matsuei. Random Playlist Stuff: Bouncing off Clouds, Back in Your Head, Music Box, Pretty Voice, Maps, Fast Car, Wind, Gay Bar, Black Black Heart, All Is Full of Love, Rodney Contois, Tegan and Sara, Reptilia, When You Were Young, Infected, Weapon of Choice, Say Goodnight and Go, Godzilla, Danger! High Voltage, Take Me Out, Strange Animal, Ghost of Corporate Future, Young, Float On, No One Knows, Defying Gravity, Phantom of the Opera, I Will Follow You into the Dark, Still Alive, Get Your Number, Like the Way I Do, Main Offender, The Hand That Feeds, Not That Big, Speak Slow, Spoonman, The Middle, Cool for Cats, Where Did Our Love Go, Almost Human, Ain't Nobody, You dont know me, Meet me halfway. Actual Artists: Jack Conte, Pomplamoose, any RENT, Alanis Morisette, Green Day, Billy Talent, Regina Spektor, Bush, Weezer, Blink-182, OK Go, Electric Six, System of a Down, Coheed and Cambria, Eminem, Natalie Imbruglia, the Godzilla soundtrack, Dragonette, Queens of the Stone Age, Panic! At The Disco, MIKA, Jimmy Eat World, Smashing Pumpkins, Moby, The Killers, Daft Punk, Kate Bush, Melissa Etheridge, Tracy Chapman, Gorillaz, Wicked. Comics: Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Black Canary, Ultimate Spider-man, Ultimate Spiderwoman. Batwoman, Nightwing, Red Sonja. Deadpool, Supergirl, Wolverine. Wiccan, Black Cat, Green Lantern, Midnighter, Lord Fanny, Nightcrawler. Flash, Green Arrow, Rawhide Kid, Ultimate Thor, Superman, Apollo. Witchblade, Catwoman, Gambit, Mystique, Storm, Aruna, Rogue. Favourite Movies: Labyrinth, The girl who lept through time, Howl's Moving Castle, Alice in Wonderland, The Cat Returns, The Harry Potters, Justice League, Spirited Away, Blazing Saddles, RENT, Arashi no Yoru Ni, The Fifth Element, My Neighbor Totoro, Cowboy Bebop, Breakfast Club, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Meet Joe Black, Back to the Future, Disney Pixar. Television: Dr.Who(David Tennant), Spiderman, The X-Files, Torchwood, X-Men, Star Trek, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, InvaderZim, Transformers, Xena: Warrior Princess, The Maxx, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Red vs. Blue, Reboot, Gargoyles, She-ra Princess of Power, Dexter's Laboratory, Robot Chicken, Big Bang Theory. |
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