Comments on: The A-Z LGBT Comic Book Character Superlist

By: Lyonside

Lyonside — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:12:48 +0000

Glad to see SIP on the list, If you’re including other graphic novels, maybe add D’Mer and Reiken (among others – lots of “Everyone Is Bi”-ness) of A Distant Soil. Bast is a shapechanger who presents through most of the series as female, but changes genders based on situation and love, so the character reads as transgender or genderqueer.

Also, Elfquest, although they have a sad tendency to kill off the explicitly gay male pairings (2 for 2, by my count). In the original 8-10 book canon (depending on who’s counting), you have a canon “Everyone Is Bi” vibe: Cutter and Skywise; Pike, Krim, and Scot (a permanent bi M/M/F threesome pairing… come to think of it, Scot, the second male in the threesome died too – DAMMIT, WARP!); Cutter, Nightshade, and Redlance (another M/M/F threesome); Leetah and Nightshade (F/F); and so on…

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:31:13 +0000

Your missing spider-women from the Ultimate Universe.

She is a female clone of Peter Parker who remembers her life as a man and at least when first introduced still has feelings for MJ.

So i think that counts as transgendered.

By: BookGnome

BookGnome — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:23:42 +0000

A relatively new gay character is closeted Det. Dedalus in Peter Milligan’s Greek Street (Vertigo). There are scenes of he & his partner in the last few issues. Unfortunately, this title seems to be hanging under the radar & there is little out there in the way of links.

Ancient Greek stories meets noir = Greek Street. It’s a great read.

By: Charlemagnne

Charlemagnne — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:42:12 +0000

This list is awesome! Thanks so much for putting it together!

directed at foxy, its not just Whedon’s interpretation, its how BKV originally wrote Xavin.

By: foxy

foxy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:17:22 +0000

Sorry, but I strongly reject Whedon’s interpretation. Skrulls have never been portrayed as changing their gender out of sensitivity to humans or under stress, in fact they’ve usually seen the shape shifting as a disguise in that they’re born with a definite sex and appearance. Making Xavin change his entire identity and rewriting the way a whole species deals with gender to make a teenaged romance less complicated it insulting.

By: trypr

trypr — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:11:07 +0000

Xavin (Runaways) is transgender I agree, but he/she does not identify as male: the character is, on evidence, ambiguous and possibly conflicted about his/her own identity; judging from BKV’s run. Xavin is male or female according to the situation as she/he sees it (Skrulls have a curious sensitivity to gender roles for a race of shapeshifters) and reflecting Xavin’s state of mind: Xavin feels the male form is better suited for expressing dominance & power, for example. Joss Whedon wrote in that Xavin conforms to a female form when stressed as a reflection of his/her psychological identity. Accepting that implication, it would make Xavin a transgendered female.

Also, I’m not much of a comics buff, but I couldn’t find any connections between Foxglove and Hazel McNamara and the titles they are listed as from? I am familiar with them from the Sandman series and the Death graphic novels.

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:56:10 +0000

There's a list of Lilith Warren's appearances here. She comes out in issue 9 when Hundred's in the hospital. She first appears in issue 8 when her team breaks into Gracie Mansion to talk about the death of Hundred's old NSA handler. In issue 46 she calls about "The Stars Are Down" static and mentions her wife. Just a heads up, you have Hundred listed in bright blue, you probably meant for it to be black.

By: fanboi

fanboi — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:05:20 +0000

Glad you like the list! Tell your friends!

I’d love some scans of those characters. FYI what I’m looking for in scans is a single shot of the character (preferable by themselves) large enough that I can size to 450×680 (pixels).

I would LOVE scans of those characters! Hadn’t heard about Achilles… You just promted me to write an article – off to research! Time to comb through Gail’s posts and find as many beefcake shots of Achilles as I can. Again contributions are welcome if anyone has shots of him too!

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:55:12 +0000

Relative Heroes was DC mini series put out in the early 2000s, written by Devon Grayson. I can email you a synopsis of the series (and scans) if you’d like. Houston and the team later turned up in Young Justice, where Joel was spotted checking out Superboy’s butt. (He had a bit of a crush on Superman in the RH mini).

Also, Mikaal Tomas/Starman III had a long time boyfriend named Tony (no last name?). His death is what led Mikaal into the current “Cry for Justice” mini series.

Terry Berg has a boyfriend named David (no last name) who was fairly prominent in the “Brother’s Keeper”/gay-bashing story arc.

Josiah Power has a long time boyfriend named Rupe (no last name) who turned up a few times in Power Company.

And most recently:

SPOILERS FOR WONDER WOMAN******

Gail Simone confirmed at the DC message boards last week that Achilles is gay.

END OF SPOILERS********

I’ll see what I can do about getting you those scans.

By the way? You are *awesome* for putting this list together!

By: fanboi

fanboi — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:35:17 +0000

I just finished adding Fury (found great images at DailyScans), I’ll probably add James as well with images from that story. But I could definitely use images of Michael Forbes, Joshua Barbazon, Houston, Rive (as well as more info on Relative Heroes – publisher?)