The 10 Most Important Gay Moments in Comic Book History

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All you supporting this f*g crap into our future generations are only promoting the slow dwindling of the human population ad possibly existence as we know it. So yeah keep on brain washing your young ones into believing its okay to have a man love another man or a woman to live another woman. Cuz we all know how healthy it is for kids to be raised by homos and get s**t at school when mom and mama drop them off for class and wonder why everyone else has a daddy and they have two moms or vice versa. This is the beginning of the end folks and I think we all know it deep down inside. This is the structural foundation of the USA and other great nations crumbling. It all begins within the house hold where we are raised, taught values and morals and how the world works. This is a sick SICK mind f**k to put in children's material. I hate homosexuals for the core reason that it is unnatural. No other species have this desire for they mate like they SHOULD. But when you start tearing away at the moral fiber of the American society it is far worse and dangerous than you might think. Look at the US military today where it's "ok to be gay". How many soldiers are going to back up their commanding officer in a life and death situation when It comes down to the final thread, fight or flight. Now I'm not saying that in any way would I leave another comrade despite what their sexuality is, even though I hate them for their ways cuz they are human. BUT knowing how a soldier's mind operates I can tell you this... That about 95% of the US militia today would absolutely think otherwise. Lemme ask you what do you think of when you think of a f*ggot? I'll let stereotype take over for a bit. Now, don't you think that these terrorist ass holes don't think the same thing we are when it comes to stereotyping homos? Who cares what the enemy thinks? I do. In order to get out there and fight like this in the desert of suck town hell on earth you have to mentally motivate yourself by any means necessary. Now, if your army is viewed as a bunch of pansy picking, knob gobblers who decorate their genitals with glitter and confetti don't you think that that is going to psych them up and motivate them to squash the suspected fairy troops the think we are? War is a psychological mind f**k and any advantage you can bolster yourself with is that much better than nothing. This is one example of how homosexuality is unacceptable and shouldn't be flaunted around just because it's stylish. Whoopy! All you homo supporters out there I want u to think back on the men and women that SERVERD THEIR COUNTRY and what they believed in! Just to end up having it ran by a bunch of twisted and confused personnel that get off on playing with the same sex. Makes me sick to my stomach. But let your kids read this garbage it's healthy for them to understand "gay rights". Pfft... Lemme tell ya there is a huge difference between civil rights from years past to this sick s**t. Unbelievable MARVEL! Anything for an extra buck huh?

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Good list of Superhero comics, but we're missing the indies that have been doing it for a while.

What? No mention of Finch and Dani from Witchblade and The Angelus???

Young Avengers bombed after the reveal, so has X-Factor, and Detective comics is the worst selling Batman book, which all you have to do is go to the forums on CBR, ComicVine or anywhere to find out half the people buying it aren't reading, just buying cause they always have.

Fact is, though some of us in the press may praise it, gay heroes in comics hurt sales, Moon Knight tanked after 2 issues which explored one of his friends being gay. And on the Ric/Shatterstar front, they've never been gay, but like beast people have toyed with making them so. In the end, PD did it to get press cause that arc was dropping steadily in sales. Clearly your showing a bias by declaring Rob a homophobe, no one has ever done more hard to the gay movement in comics then what Marvel is doing right now.

They're taking classic NON gay heroes and making them gay, if you really want to make someone gay, then come up with a strong NEW gay hero, rather then make weaker cult favorites the gay heroes.

All this is pointless however when the only people who these story-lines bring in are gay and people who want to see what the fuss is about. X-Factor sold quite a it of those few issues, and now yet again it's sales aren't as good. Despite what some in the press say, being Gay in a comic doesn't help in the long run. Recent polls show that 60% of Americans are sick of the gay rights, "your with us or a homophobe we hate" mantra. Does that matter? No, because the pro-gay people are just going to keep shoving it (bad choice of words) in peoples faces until they die down and accept it. . . Which is why many of us just quit buying these books when they decide to blatantly use the "gay factor" to stir up a response.

If I had written this article for a comic book centric website, then I would have said "Top Ten Gay Moments in SUPER HERO Comic Book History" But for a larger audience, "Comic Book" still means "Super Hero." Many of you may not like that, but it is a fact. I didn't name any indie books not because I'm unaware of them, but because the events in those books simply did not make headlines in the mainstream press. The only possible exception to that rule was Judd Winnick's Pedro and Me, and that was mostly due to the author and subject's connection to MTV's The Real World.

This wasn't a list based on quality, otherwise the awful Rawhide Kid series or Alpha Flight's coming out issue wouldn't even be here. Those stories got headlines in the mainstream press. Stan Lee went on CNN to talk about their "gay cowboy" book. Rictor and Shatterstar were all over sites like Perez Hilton and similar ones.

To put in another way; there have been several actresses who have come out as lesbian before Ellen, however Ellen made nationwide headlines by being the first to do so while starring in a mainstream sitcom watched by millions. That is what made history. There have been a million gay indie flicks before Brokeback Mountain, but that is the one that crossed over into the mainstream and changed the notion that gay lead characters were only for a small niche audience. Brokeback made history. The others...not so much. Collectively? Sure, but not on an individual basis. That is not a judgment on their quality. This is not a "best" or "favorite" moments list, this is a list for the gay moments in comics that got attention outside the usual comics circles.

As for whether or not super hero comics are dying, that is really another argument. However, for the moment, the great majority of comics sold every month are still super hero books. Just look at Diamond's Top 100 each month...all are super hero titles, with the exception of a few things like Fables. Just sayin'.

Leaving out Maggie and Hopey from Love and Rockets, Stuck Rubber Baby, and other non-superhero comics that have advanced equality and recognition for gays is also pretty reprehensible.