Now that we’ve covered the LGBTQ comic book basics, and the first mainstream, openly gay superhero, Extraño, it’s time to take a look at the (sort of) first mainstream gay superhero: Northstar. At least, that’s what this was going to be about. Then, over the course of researching how Northstar became the poster boy for…
Who Was The First Openly Gay Superhero? — In Defense Of DC Comics’ Extraño
As Pride Month winds down, what better way to start a blog taking a deeper dive into geekdom than by looking at LGBTQ representation in comic books? And what better place to start than with the first out gay superhero? At least, it would be, if we could definitively find him or her… The problem…
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