Posted on 09/07/2007 10:26:53 AM PDT by Pyro7480
On Monday, New York Times Arts writer George Gene Gustines profiled gay novelist Perry Moore, a fervent supporter of gay rights -- for fictional comic book characters.
"Novelist's Superhero Is Out to Right Wrongs" began:
"Perry Moore has the sinewy physique and golden looks of a California surfer, but get him talking about comics, and he can out-geek the biggest fanatic. He also has the fervor of an activist when discussing the dearth -- and occasional shoddy treatment -- of gay superheroes in mainstream comic books."
Now there's a vital cause we can all rally behind!
"It is an issue close to the heart of Mr. Moore, who is gay, and he has funneled his passion into a young-adult novel. 'Hero,' published in hardback last week by Hyperion Teen, tells the story of Thom Creed, coping not only with high school, sexual orientation and a strained home life, but also with his own budding superpowers. In telling Thom's story, Mr. Moore, like some of the costumed champions he admires, hopes to right some wrongs.
"'My publisher did not shy away from my mission,' he said during a recent interview near his home in Greenwich Village. That mission is a multipart endeavor to show gay superheroes in a positive light, to learn from his experiences with his father and to give younger readers a potential role model in Thom."
Because liberal moralizing is what comic book readers are looking for.
For the complete version of this article, visit Times Watch.
Cover your six!
I dunno. Adam West as Batman was decidedly ‘campy’.
Ah, yes. Robin, the Boy Hostage.
It happened about the time Stan Lee lost control of Marvel by a hostile corporate takeover.
But CBS's morning show was on and at the very instant I turned it on, I heard a hip singer (some outfit called Maroon 5 or something) deliver the lyric "I feel so gay...yada yada yada." It was a pretty quick reminder of why I don't care to fill my house with the cultural choices of TV producers and exec and other NYC/Hollywood types. (And Foxnews is no better -- Geraldo, BO, Shep Smith...who needs it?)
I watched a moment -- this was an outside stage in NYC -- and the TV babette interviewed the punk for a minute...there was nothing extraordinary about it, unless you noticed what the punk was singing.
I am not easily shocked or offended by this stuff, in isolation. But what I am extremely upset by is the sense that they now OWN the public culture...to not embrace homosexuals is to be a bigot.
Well, I am one, by gosh! I am a bigot. I despise the queers taking over the country, parading in the streets, flaunting their peversity. Has the world gone mad? (AIDS is near rock bottom on my list of conerns.)
Underwater of course.
Not even the one about the mohel with a jackhammer?
Well, the guy who invented WW was apparently into multiple female partners and bondage roleplaying. His full time, live in "companion" wore bracers on her wrists. like WW. Also note that WW was supposed to lose all her powers whenever tied up by her golden lasso, which happened a lot back in the "golden age" comics.
“It happened about the time Stan Lee lost control of Marvel by a hostile corporate takeover.”
Stan claims he was in favor of gay characters all along. Jim Shooter, Marvel’s editor in chief in their heyday (late 70’s through late 80’s) decreed that Marvel would have no gay characters, and the lefty New York writers on staff hated him for it. I’m pretty convinced that “outing” Northstar in the early 90’s was a direct slap at Shooter, who led Marvel to the highest profits they ever had. When he was running things, Marvel owned 70% of the market...and this is when comics were widespread, when you could get a comic anyway, at any corner 7/11.
Shooter is pushed out, NYC libbies take over, the industry goes to hell. Coincidence?
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The book sure changed comic books. They cleaned up all of the gore in EC comics for one and put the voluptuous maidens out to pasture.
You remember the old joke then...
Q...If the answer is "Cock Robin", what is the question?
A...."What's this up my *ss, Batman?"
Will check him out. Thanks!
>>>>>”There are plenty of Christians on TV and in the movies. If I see a clerical collar or someone invoke God or Jesus in the first five minutes of a presentation...I can be sure they are going to be the bad guy, murderer, pedophile, hypocrite, lying bastard adulterer by the time the last frame rolls. This is near universal. “
Every movie that I can think of that has been made in the past few decades is like this. No matter if a character is a priest, minister, bishop etc or a Christian parent, they are cast as deranged psychos, thieves, pedophiles, etc. They give no credit to the millions of Christians who are not bible thumpers, who spend much of their lives doing charitable work helping people, who give massive amount of money to good causes and they do not brag to the world about their good deeds like the Hollywood crowd does.
There is at least one atheist fundamentalist working for the majors (DC at least, don’t know if he’s written for Marvel).
He boasted of his efforts to tackle the superstitions of religion in an article he wrote for Arthur Magazine (a free leftist/entertainment monthly that abruptly ceased publication this year).
Wonder how much that Spider-man/god plotline sprung from that sort of a mindset.
“Arthur” was pretty wacked out (with atheist articles on how to adopt all sorts of “neutral” ceremonies into your day and pleas for totally killing the power grid and essentially living in caves. Also how to make weapons for protests.
There used to be PDFs of the issues online. Don’t know if they are still around.
DC had a lead editor/staffer who was out of the closet and influencing the corporate direction.
Stan Lee is bowing out in disgrace. The Clinton years were not a good association.
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