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.
I read an article a couple of years ago saying that whichever publisher owns Rawhide Kid is going to do a sequence of issues in which Kid is revealed to be gay, although supposedly it was all pretty PG-13.
Dunno if that fact is discussed in the underlying NYT article; I won’t often go to NYT links, as I don’t like upping their traffic / ad-rates.
No, and I suspect I’m better off as a result....(chuckle)
Never saw Brokeback Mountain....but I still think its based on George Clooney’s life....
They’re all gay, it’s the whole tights with boots thing that gives them away.
That and they never marry except in those special “what if” issues.
There are dozens of positively portrayed gay characters on TV while they make up about 2-4% of the population. There are zero positively portrayed Christian characters on TV when they make up the majority of the population. Yep, gays are treated so unfairly by the networks and media.
Propaganda as childrens’ entertainment.
Anticapitalists are well represented in comic books. Where are the “positive” conservative depictions in comic books?
AIDS AIDS AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS!
Everyone has AIDS!
And so this is the end of our story
And everyone is dead from AIDS
It took from me my best friend
My only true pal
My only bright star (he died of AIDS)
Well I’m gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There’s a hero inside of all of us
I’ll make them see everyone has AIDS
My father (AIDS!)
My sister (AIDS!)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS AIDS AIDS!)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
Everyone has AIDS!
My grandma and my dog ‘ol blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
C’mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
We gotta break down these baricades, everyone has
AIDS!
You beat me to it.
Thailand?
Great minds....
So what’s the story on Thor, and was Magnus boinking 1A?
Well there was one show, 7th Heaven. But that is now in reruns.
Superman had a number of girlfriends. They all had the initials LL: Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lori...
Nah, they want a queer to act like a super hero. It can't be done.
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