Comments on: Add two more names to the list of gay superheroes

By: Nimetullah Sucu

Nimetullah Sucu — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:13:35 +0000

Yeah!! in my splendid estimation the superhero gay and lesbian persons look like the immense times in the fields of medieval ages which was delineated gothic characters of the celestial shield of fetish things/times.

By: hexbolt

hexbolt — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:16:15 +0000

Yeah I always felt that story line of Willow becoming gay was poorly written. She was obviously bisexual and should have continued to be written that way. Unless you want me to believe that she never really loved Oz in and Xander in the first place. Which would be completely lame. The problem with gays and straights is that they don’t know what to do with bisexuals. Y’all have a boring either or mentality. I am hoping that PAD keeps Rictor as a bisexual man.

By: icon-UK

icon-UK — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:20:19 +0000

“The article title here is actually a little offensive and also inaccurate. Rictor’s bisexual, not gay, and bisexuals get ragged on heaps with the whole ‘bi now, gay later’ stuff by both gays and straights. It’s why the people in our community use words like LGBT if we’re trying to generalise.”

Sexuality is defined by the person, not the observer. We don’t know for sure yet, but it’s entirely possible that Rictor, DESPITE having a girlfriend in the past (even one he didn’t have sex with, like Rahne), DOES now view himself as gay. See also Willow Rosenberg, who was in a long term relationship with a guy, but after meeting her first girlfriend identified herself consistently as gay, not bisexual, and has had relationships with women exclusively since then.

By: fanboi

fanboi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:10:57 +0000

Thanks for the link! I’m so glad to see this item being picked up. This really IS what the world needs more of.

I’ve seen alot of the mainstream news outlets touting this as the first male/male kiss in comics… That doesn’t seem right. Maybe first in a Marvel book? I remember Obsidian getting a kiss from his boyfriend in Manhunter (an ecellent GLBT inclusive title), also, I’d be surprised to learn Apollo and Midnighter never locked lips on panel. Anyone with a billion comics on microfilm wanna school me?

By: Copper

Copper — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:37:12 +0000

Hooray! About time for these two! I remember way way way back in “X-Force” how the two of them always seemed to be together and there always seemed to be something…well, I guess the term nowadays would be “bromancy” about the two of them. Now hearing this made me cheer and cry at the same time, because I am currently broke and am an obsessed enough Shatterstar fangirl to go back and buy all the back issues that I’m missing (which is…ugh…all of them!) since, like Mr. Melrose, I sort of fell away from X-Factor for some unknown reason. Still…huzzah!

By: bobbydigital20g

bobbydigital20g — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:02:35 +0000

Northstar isnt dead, he was just inducted as an official X-Man recently by wolverine and cyclops, and yes, hes still gay.

By: GQ

GQ — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:57:18 +0000

“Great. Just what the world needs.”

I know you’re being sarcastic but you are right. This IS what the world needs.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:33:31 +0000

Only thing that offends me is the lack of spoilers, I won’t get this issue until later this week and I’ve been loving how Peter David has been throwing these big “woah” moments into recent issues and people have managed to not openly spoil anything.

By: Flanuer

Flanuer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:38:34 +0000

My hackles are lowered, Malenkym. Your monitor would have exploded if they were not.

I certainly believe there is no intent to offend in this article, it instead seems like something trying to be progressive. It’s important to say though; ignorance, no matter how benign we feel it is, is fail and so we must educate the ignorant until ignorance is no more.

By: JS

JS — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:45:17 +0000

Great. Just what the world needs.

By: Malenkym

Malenkym — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:11:17 +0000

Flanuer there is clearly no intent to offend anywhere in this article, lower those hackles!

By: Malenkym

Malenkym — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:07:59 +0000

Could I love this more? its so well drawn and sweet and feels like natural progression of a relationship rather than shock value marketing. I just LOVE that absolutely no fuss has been kicked up about it either, sure, that may be because they’re pretty unknown, but it’s also because being gay is finally, finally not such a big deal anymore, no one bats an eyelash, no one cares, and that really does feel like equality. Freedom to be as mundane and uninteresting as the rest of the masses ahah

god, I love this

By: Flanuer

Flanuer — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:07:25 +0000

The article title here is actually a little offensive and also inaccurate. Rictor’s bisexual, not gay, and bisexuals get ragged on heaps with the whole ‘bi now, gay later’ stuff by both gays and straights. It’s why the people in our community use words like LGBT if we’re trying to generalise.

It’s a fantastic development though, as regards the comic itself.

By: TF_loki

TF_loki — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:28:54 +0000

Hoo rah! About time Marvel let that play out…it’s the 21st Century, ferchrissakes!