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.
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