Queer As A Superhero

I always get really excited by superheroes. I'm not much of a comic girl - my nerdgasms come from RPGs, fixing my girlfriend's computer and Pokémon. But I love the idea of someone that runs around in spandex and a cape defeating the bad guys. Where the world is so simple, bad and good are black and white - the guy breeding mutant worms to take over the city is the bad guy and the guy that is stops him is the good guy. Makes me happy.

Then I came out and suddenly found my world immersed in gay. I watched a million and one lesbian movies that I had never known existed before and had all these new TV shows to watch. My gay education progressed at a rapid pace for the good part of a year. Then I got into Queer as Folk and was SO excited by the gay superhero in it. Rage was hot, liked kissing boys and fought to save them from all that was bad in the world. He was my new favourite thing. Then I heard that Marvel was going to reveal their new gay superhero in real life, and I tried to cynically pretend that I didn't care about them jumping on the bandwagon but secretly I could hardly contain my excitement.

Then it turned out to be the Green Lantern in an alternate universe. They couldn't reveal that someone had been gay all along, now could they? It did break my heart a little, if I'm being honest. I don't really care if Marvel releases a gay superhero in the next twenty years or not, but trying to pretend that they are keeping up with the times by making one of their superheroes gay is not okay with me. Not if you're not going to do it properly.

I know one of the X-Men married another man, but it's really just not the same. There is no focus on one main gay superhero in mainstream media. There is nobody that fights for gender fluidity issues, sexual orientation confusion or anyone that tries to save the gay teenager from committing suicide.

Where's the gay Batman? C'mon... we've known about him and Robin all along. There's really no point pretending. I wish Wonderwoman would swoop down from the sky and bust some nuts. She's not really my type but that lyrca really does hug her ass. Mmm...