Superman legacy gay

It’s a queer Aquaman and Wonder Woman, but not the ones Jason Momoa or Gal Gadot would have to answer for. On the hero side, we’ve got DC favorites like Hawkgirl, Mr. Terrific, Guy Gardner’s Green Lantern, and Metamorpho, making the DCU feel bigger than ever. Personally, though I believe having someone who is actively Superman be LGBTQ is important, I don’t think that person has to be Clark.

Less than a month after DC announced the character’s forthcoming revelation, police were dispatched to the homes of writer Tom Taylor and artist John Timms after threats were made to the comics company. Ostensibly a charming buddy-comedy team-up in which Jon takes his dour and decidedly unworldly friend Damian Wayne (a legacy character himself, being the latest in a line of periodically queer-themed Robins) to his first Pride celebration.

But there are multiverses and fanfic and ways to get around that if you disagree.”

The children are our future

On the other hand, for Tom Taylor, who wrote the story bringing Jon out of the closet, youth is less a driving factor than the changing priorities of the characters’ publisher.

Or more accurately, Superman’s son – Jonathan Kent – who has recently taken on his father’s role in DC Comics, has been depicted kissing another male character in a panel from a forthcoming comic. And the meaning of a symbol can change depending on who’s viewing it.” 

Superman is out of the closet and there’s no way to put him back in. And Kent has introduced his boyfriend to his parents in recent issues of the comic he stars in.

The revelation that a Superman is bisexual is a big deal in terms of superhero comics, but it hasn’t gone down well with everyone.

Based on the trailer and official info, there’s nothing suggesting that this version of Superman is gay.

“Additionally, there’s the issue of creating a new character versus changing an existing one. There have been so many comics, movies, and TV series focused on the Clark and Lois ship that I think changing either of their sexualities now would be a hard sell.

A gay, or bi, or ace, or trans superhero might be a small and cautious gesture, but every gesture takes on outsized meaning when speaking out is itself a source of fear. A few pages later, erstwhile ’90s Green Arrow Connor Hawke makes a rare 21st-century appearance in a story by Ro Stein and Ted Brandt (here, like Jon, Connor is teaming up with Damian Wayne, a coincidental decision that hilariously makes Damian come off as everyone’s clueless straight best friend).

So for LGBTQ+ comics readers, seeing a character called Superman genuinely involved in a same-sex relationship is a profound moment.

While DC Comics haven’t been brave enough to give Clark Kent himself a boyfriend, the storyline allows bisexual teens to see themselves reflected in a world-famous character. Two years later, writer N.K. Jemisin and artist Jamal Campbell introduced us to Jo Mullein, a fresh-faced Green Lantern stationed far from home whose bisexuality was just one of several traits that established her (in Jemisin’s words) as a “stranger in a strange land.” Nubia of the Amazons, twin sister of fellow Wonder Woman Princess Diana, was casually shown in bed with her lover Io just this past December.