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Stallion, Now A Confident Gay Man, In DC Comics' Nightwing
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Recently Marvel Comics revealed that longstanding bit-character D-Man was a queer man. Aside the snickering about what "D" meant in gay slang, it was mostly considered a positive step for the publisher and consistent with the character. And everyone moved on.
Today, DC Comics has done something similar with the Nightwing character Stallion, who first appeared in in Nightwing #17, and who died with much of the rest of the town Bludhaven in Infinite Crisis.
Well, that's all been done away with. He's back. The ex-Dallas Cowboys football player-turned-supervillain who dresses up in leather and a stetson.
However did we not see it before?
Anyway, in today's Nightwing, Stallion has returned to be part of the team of super villains attending group therapy. And doing a little psychoanalysing over his violent tendencies. Though not before he has exercised some of them.
With some homophobic language along the way. Is he overcompensati
Pride is a tricky period for a lot of bisexual people. Many possess spent a lifetime between two worlds. Not hetero enough to fit in with the straights while at the same period not feeling like we have the right to exist visibly in lgbtq+ spaces. It&#;s one of the reasons why it took me so drawn-out to publicly out myself as bisexual. The stigmas attached to my persona were intense to deal with so for a long time I just… didn&#;t. It&#;s possible I might have never arrive to terms with who I am had it not been for Nightwing’s ass.
Until I appreciated comics from a distance. Sure, I read grocery store Archie digests and my brother&#;s floppies but I didn&#;t start a regular pull or collecting trade paperbacks until my seal friend and writing spouse of seven years died of cancer that August. He and I had been the editorial team at a website committed to RPG video games, and as much as I still enjoyed gaming, I couldn&#;t write about it anymore. It felt wrong without him. So, I left that website to explore comic books.
Finding comics as an grown-up is hard because there are so many
10 DC Comics Characters We&#;d Love to Notice Get a Gay Understanding
Come on, DC Comics! Make our favorite heroes gay!
DC Comics released a new graphic novel titled Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson, Leila del Duca, Kelly Fitzpatrick and Saida Temofonte. This graphic novel is a new Wonder Lady origin story that decides to change “Steve Trevor,” Wonder Woman’s ally and lover, into a queer couple. That’s right, they didn’t just make the man Steve Trevor gay; they turned him into two characters who are married to each other. Truly iconic.
But what if some of our other DC Comics favorites got this treatment? We possess a few names that we’d like to view reimagined as gay for a standalone comic. Or, fingers crossed, a minute more permanently. See who we have in thought and weigh in.
Here are 10 DC Comics characters we’d love to watch get a gay interpretation:
1. Nightwing / Dick Grayson
Come on. Did you really think we wouldn’t combine Nightwing to the list? Ever since he became his own man, Dick Grayson has become one of the hottest guys in the world of comics. It do
Why Is Nightwing Hot? A Comics Alliance Investigation
Nightwing is comics' hottest male superhero. His superior hotness is a fact so indisputable that, when we compiled our list of the 50 Sexiest Guys In Comics a while back, there was never any serious doubt that he would come out on top. His appeal is not only established by fans, but also by creators and even by publisher DC, which has been acknowledged to pander to his fans on several occasions. In an industry that doesn't generally create time for the female gaze, Dick Grayson has emerged as one of the medium's limited male sex symbols.
But what is it about Dick Grayson that sets him apart among the macho mannequins of superhero comics? Is it his personality? His history? His character design? His butt? ComicsAlliance spoke to Dick Grayson experts Tim Seeley and Devin Grayson, and several of the character's fans, and undertook an intense study of the source material, to get to the lovely bottom of this great question.
Dick Grayson hasn't always been sexy. It actually took about thirty or forty yea