discodown Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 For those of us who do read comics even though we're adults and appreciate them and know that within the average story theres usually more entertainment, good ideas and more of good everything than most TV has provided us with for the last few years, you'll know that Northstar the Marvel character who has been openly gay since 1992 has proposed to his boyfriend. While comics imitate, subvert and caricature life in many ways this has caused outrage amongst the more extreme end of the religious types who claim that the kids (oh, won't somebody think of the kids) will be perverted and damaged by seeing two men get married amongst the death, killing and destruction of the drawings in the book. Most people - the vast majority - don't actually care of course because they don't read the comic, I suspect the average religious type won't care either because they don't read the comic either and even if they did seeing a drawing of a gay wedding is hardly going to tear down the fabric of civilisation. However the lunatic fringe while separated by deity have more in common than they realise and are making noises about how awful it all is. Personally I don't particularly care for Northstar but I do like Marvel so well done them for doing it.http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/76516/Marvels-X-Men-Sees-Comics-First-Gay-Wedding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Nobody other than PC Busybodies and Daily Mail readers will care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 DC comics have recently announced that one of their mainstream characters will come out of the closet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ sheffield Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Nobody other than PC Busybodies and Daily Mail readers will care. Please stop trolling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Sidney Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Grown men who like reading a comic about a man marrying another man in a made up story? Has the world gone mad?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ sheffield Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Grown men who like reading a comic about a man marrying another man in a made up story? Has the world gone mad?... Just grown men reading comics is bad enough, wikkle baby wabies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank ryan Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 I always suspected superman as gay - batman deffo, spiderman....poss bi- thor? come on, no straight man would dress like that! - the whole comic fraternity is a festival of homo erotic imagery and it's nice to see one has actualy come out, though I've never heard of northstar myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister M Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 On the subject of cartoon characters, a few years ago the religious right rednecks in America were fulminating about Spongebob Squarepants - all because he holds hands with his sidekick Patrick Read the lunacy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4190699.stm But George Clooney as Batman. Mmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lounge Jay Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 DC comics have recently announced that one of their mainstream characters will come out of the closet. I hope its Catwoman, that would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootsBooster Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Grown men who like reading a comic about a man marrying another man in a made up story? Has the world gone mad?... Just grown men reading comics is bad enough, wikkle baby wabies. Yes, unlike grown men who still like to watch football, or still have to have a woman do their cooking and cleaning for them. I hope its Catwoman, that would be great. You think she likes cats? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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