How Will a Gay Icon Fly at the Box Office? Superman appeals to gays.

LA Slimes ^ | June 2, 2006 | John Horn

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STUDIOS love magazine stories that breathlessly hype their summer popcorn movies, so you would think that Warner Bros. might have been happy with Alonso Duralde's cover story about "Superman Returns," which gushed, "Superheroes — let's face it — are totally hot."

There was a twist: Duralde's "Superman Returns" story was not in Entertainment Weekly or Newsweek or Premiere. It ran in the May 23 issue of the Advocate, the prominent national gay magazine, next to the headline: "How Gay Is Superman?"

Man of Steel has been missing from the movies for 19 years, and now that he's scheduled to fly into the multiplex on June 28, his worries may not be limited to Lex Luthor and kryptonite. Even at a time when moviegoers and awards organizations embraced the overtly gay love story "Brokeback Mountain," there may be a different challenge for a mainstream action movie that happens to be attracting a gay following.

[bpjam]

I'm pretty much sick of the queer lobby in hollywood making every single movie into a gay propaganda flick. X-Men was supposed to be about 'tolerance'. Catwoman is now a dyke. The Writers Guild and the Directors Guild is completely infiltrated and they are trying hard to either convert all of us or destroy all entertainment.

Am I going to see 'Superman?' Chances are about 47 to 1 against. They are retroactively going to turn everybody in history into a queer icon - cowboys, Superman, Batman, Teletubbies, X-men, Abraham Lincoln. I'm sure there is a script floating around Hollywood which has John Wayne or Ronald Reagan taking it in the @ss. If they want it to be gay, I'm staying away - forever.

[thoughtomator]

It's all about seizing innocence and perverting it any way they can.

[coydog]

Well, those skin-tight costumes are bound to attract a certain sort of element... XD

[Obadiah]

Yep. The homosexual lobby always takes that which is innocent and tries to pervert it to its own unnatural preferences.

[Ptaz]

Superman is so over. The only way they can make a buck is to put a new twist on it. Not a chance in H*** that I'll see it.

[Sonny M]

I'm going to see superman, but one thing that is getting on my nerves is this need by the gay community to hijack everything and turn it into something just for themselves.

If I sold steel folding chairs and they became popular, the gay community would be asking "how gay are these?" and trying to make it into a gay icon.

They really are getting more and more heterophobic by the day.

[nevergore]

We'll lets see....

He wears tights and flys......doesn't date girls although appears tempted....

and most importantly...he is always coming out of the closet....

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.....

[teddyballgame]

Hollywood is mostly gay, that why they think that a larger percentage of the population is gay. They can't make gay movies (no one will watch them), so they have to adopt other movies? This whole article was just plain weird.

[1rudeboy]

Batman and Robin always struck me as rather . . . peculiar.

[Jameison]

"He wears tights and flys......doesn't date girls although appears tempted.... "

Loise Lane is a guy?
Who knew?

[Skooz]

LOL!

Nice rant. Well said.

[puroresu]

You nailed it!

[HitmanLV]

He wears tights and flys......doesn't date girls although appears tempted....

Nah. Superman has had many love interests in the comics. Lana Lang in his youth. Lori Lemaris is his first adult love. Lois Lane is most regarded as 'Superman's Girlfriend,' and indeed she had a comic series all her own titled 'Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane.'

[sageb1]

Excuse me while I go throw up.

[Jameison]

"How Will a Gay Icon Fly at the Box Office?"

Superman is gay icon?
First I am hearing of it..and I have been reading Superman comic books since I was knee high.

[Jameison]

"Superman has had many love interests in the comics. Lana Lang in his youth. Lori Lemaris is his first adult love. Lois Lane is most regarded as 'Superman's Girlfriend,' and indeed she had a comic series all her own titled 'Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane.'"

All true.
But try telling that to the gay fanatics at the LA Times.

[MrCruncher]

Does Lois Lane know about Lana Lang and Lori Lemaris?


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[sageb1]

"In addition to drawing poor reviews and generating weak word-of-mouth, the studio's 1997 summer release "Batman & Robin" was criticized for having too much homoerotic appeal, including nipples on Batman's suit. George Clooney, the film's star, has joked, "I could have played him straight but I didn't. I made him gay."

Which is why I preferred Michael Keaton.

[wideawake]

Any male with an exemplary physique is an icon to that group.

[bpjam]

Unforunately, the Studio is marketing the film to gays and making as many 'ambiguous' comments and edits as possible. They actually WANT this to be seen as a queer film in the queer community without blatantly pissing off the rest of us. But they don't get it both ways, either its Brokeback or its not.

Its one thing for the queers to claim the teletubbies. But when hollywood actually writes and shoots ambiguously gay things INTO the movies to further this, they lose my support.