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Y'all are going to love this. Could Superman be gay?
Honchos at Superman's comic book home, DC Comics, said this weekend that one of their most identifiable (but as of yet unnamed) straight characters will soon be coming out of the closet, according to a report.
At the Kapow Comic Convention held last weekend in London, DC co-publisher Dan DiDio said the publisher would be reintroducing a previously existing character who would now be “one of our most prominent gay characters," the website BleedingCool.com reports.
Didio said DC's position had shifted on the subject since he said in an interview last year that any homosexual characters would be new introductions, and that none of their existing characters' sexual orientations would shift.
DC vice president Bob Wayne likened DC's change in tune to President Obama's shift on gay marriage, explaining that DC's policy “has evolved,” the report says. If someone wants to write Superman slashfic, that someone has every right to do so. But I can promise you that I will not read it.
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They've already done the Superman re-vamp (no pun intended), but my money is on Bruce Wayne. Of course,  that would explain why the new editor of Superman says he's not planning on hooking up L&C while he's editor.  Nope, sorry, my money is still on Bruce.
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I saw this on Yahoo earlier and immediately thought, "So they're outing Bruce Wayne." 
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No... It can't be... I'd put money on it being Bruce. Or maybe a certain Green Lantern- but not Supes. Although your comment scares me a bit, Virginia. /shudders/
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I can't remember where I read it, but I recently read something about Batman being gay.
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Originally posted by MrsLuthor:
I can't remember where I read it, but I recently read something about Batman being gay. Wouldn't it be funny, if they outted Batman right before the new Batman movie was released. ![[Linked Image]](http://cosgan.de/images/midi/frech/c042.gif) I could so totally see someone from Warner Bros's walking up to DC Comics HQ like this... ![[Linked Image]](http://cosgan.de/images/smilie/boese/s080.gif)
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I really doubt that either Superman or Batman will be chosen for this role, they're way too iconic for DC to risk the storm that would follow. I'm guessing it'll turn out to be someone well known to comic fans but not to the general public, e.g. one of the secondary Green Lanterns, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, etc.
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Originally posted by Marcus Rowland:
I really doubt that either Superman or Batman will be chosen for this role, they're way too iconic for DC to risk the storm that would follow. I'm guessing it'll turn out to be someone well known to comic fans but not to the general public, e.g. one of the secondary Green Lanterns, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, etc. I'm with you on this one, Marcus. That would be a *major* risk for them to take- I'd say Kyle Rayner if any Green Lantern. Or Green Arrow. 
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Honchos at Superman's comic book home, DC Comics, said this weekend that one of their most identifiable (but as of yet unnamed) straight characters will soon be coming out of the closet, according to a report. "Most identifiable" means probably not a minor character, so maybe it's Wonder Woman, or Robin. They also don't say "superhero" so maybe it is a villian. Lex Luthor? Okay, I'm going back to my writing, this is too much silly guessing.
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The article I read implied that it was a hero that hasn't been reintroduced yet, which leaves out Supes and the Bat. "Among the contenders, then, are Martian Manhunter, Black Adam, Shazam! (aka Captain Marvel) and Hawkgirl."
"You need me. You wouldn't be much of a hero without a villain. And you do love being the hero, don't you. The cheering children, the swooning women, you love it so much, it's made you my most reliable accomplice." -- Lex Luthor to Superman, Question Authority, Justice League Unlimited
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Originally posted by Karen:
The article I read implied that it was a hero that hasn't been reintroduced yet, which leaves out Supes and the Bat. "Among the contenders, then, are Martian Manhunter, Black Adam, Shazam! (aka Captain Marvel) and Hawkgirl." That would make sense, I guess, considering they already rebooted Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. I can see Hawkgirl or Shazam! as definite possibilities.
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I'm *really* hoping it's not a female that gets outted. I'm sick of seeing any strong, independent female characters being assumed to be lesbians. Women can be strong and independent and still be straight. Just like I'm sick of seeing the sterotype of males who are gay *having* to be effeminate.
Let's hope that whichever hero comes out, they break the sterotype mold.
/rantover
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Martian Manhunter is a shape changer whose real form is only vaguely humanoid - it would be easy enough to give him any gender (or multiple genders) or sexual alignment.
Captain Marvel seems a bit unlikely, considering that he's actually a kid who becomes an adult when he says "Shazam" (unless they've changed canon a lot), I really doubt that DC would want to go there.
To be honest, I really don't care that much - given the number of canon superheroes in the DC universe, it would be statistically absurd for none of them to be gay - I think that the only canon example at present is Huntress, but I may be remembering it wrong.
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Originally posted by VirginiaR: They've already done the Superman re-vamp (no pun intended), but my money is on Bruce Wayne.
Of course, that would explain why the new editor of Superman says he's not planning on hooking up L&C while he's editor.
Nope, sorry, my money is still on Bruce. Ditto. The relationship between Batman and Robin has been analyzed to death, and quite often the result was that there are some gay undertones there... It would also fit in nicely with Bruce Wayne's playboy billionaire act - before he comes out of the closet, it seems like a good way to avoid suspicion. Although, come to think of it, Wonder Woman is another obvious choice... They never said it was a male character, did they?
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From what I am hearing, the guy coming out as gay is the first Green Lantern from the '40s, Alan Scott. He will be re-introduced as a young man, in Earth Two #1 as the head of GBC Productions.
I don't know about him being a canon character. Maybe he was in the 40s, but I was born in 1948, so I never heard of him until today.
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Originally posted by Karen:
The article I read implied that it was a hero that hasn't been reintroduced yet, which leaves out Supes and the Bat. "Among the contenders, then, are Martian Manhunter, Black Adam, Shazam! (aka Captain Marvel) and Hawkgirl." Oh poor Hawkman if it's Hawkgirl. If they hold true to the original concept of Hawkman and Hawkgirl I seriously doubt it's her as they've been tied together via reincarnation (it's canon to their story.) I could see the possibility of it being on the of Lanterns personally.
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Originally posted by Lara Joelle Kent: Originally posted by VirginiaR: [b] They've already done the Superman re-vamp (no pun intended), but my money is on Bruce Wayne. Of course, that would explain why the new editor of Superman says he's not planning on hooking up L&C while he's editor. Nope, sorry, my money is still on Bruce.
Although, come to think of it, Wonder Woman is another obvious choice... They never said it was a male character, did they? [/b]You can analyze this to death, but the reality of pretty much all of the classic kid sidekicks (Robin especially) is that they were put in to the stories to appeal to a younger audience than the main adult characters, with the sole goal of making more money. Explaining this as gay subtext is clutching at straws, adding a rationale to a type of character that really makes no sense. Kid sidekicks are fundamentally silly, and their existence can only be explained by the economics of comic book marketing.
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The originial Green Lantern has been officially announced as the newly outed gay character. From the article: Alan Scott, the first man to wield the green power ring in 1940, is welcomed home with a kiss from his boyfriend in the upcoming issue of Earth 2. DC featured a multi-page preview of the story on its online blog. And here's the article itself: DC reveals \'Green Lantern\' is gay
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Now, that sounds like a good solution. (And, yes, I did know Alan Scott - or at least that he was a Green Lantern and with the JSA. Btw, I was born in 1980. *winks at Nan* )
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