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Tales From The Four Color Closet – Looking Forward To A LGBTQ+ier 2016?
By Joe Glass It's been an interesting year for LGBTQ+ representation in comics Hell, it's been an interesting year for the LGBTQ+ community at a whole Parts of the world have become more open to accepting the LGBTQ+ people in their lives, while others have back-pedalled to older, more negative stances. The same, in a way, could[...]
Tales From The Four Color Closet: Creating a Glass Closet for Angela
I mean, it looks like this   And yet, in his regular conversation with CBR this week, Axel is asked outright about Angela perhaps being Marvel's first major gay or bi lead book in Marvel's All New, All Different line (a line supposedly aiming for diversity, but so far coming up quite short in the LGBTQ+ respect),[...]
Today In LGBT Kissing – Angela, Batgirl And Flash (SPOILERS)
But it's notable that all the comics I read today so far, that have featured one character kissing another, have been LGBT. We have Angela: Queen Of Hel #1 – L and T… We have Flash #45 – G. And, in Batgirl #45, we have the wedding of Alysia and Jo – L, B and T to the list.. It's[...]
Post NYCC – Prism Comics Presents: Autobio In Queer Comics
His work includes the LGBTQ superhero team series The Pride, which was one of the Top 25 Comixology Submit Titles of 2014; and also co-writing Stiffs, a horror comedy series set in the South Wales valleys he calls home All the comics are available on Comixology, or you can get them in print here and[...]
Flame Con 2 Increases In Both Size And Duration…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkNFi32vwOEVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Flame Con 2- August 20-21 2016- Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkNFi32vwOE) The second annual Flame Con, the Brooklyn-based LGBTQ comic convention is expanding from one day to two next year, taking August 20th and 21st at a larger venue at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott. The first show this June was the largest queerfocused pop[...]
A Married Couple's Comic Book Store? Whatever….
But good news for Brian Andersen... In addition to offering popular mainstream titles published by the likes of DC, Marvel, and Archie Comics, the store has become known for featuring the work of local LGBTQ artists and writers One such title was So Super Duper, gay artist Brian Andersen's comic about a gay superhero[...]
When Secret Wars: Secret Love Lost Its Lesbians
So lots of different versions of familiar – and unfamiliar – Marvel characters living side by side, ruled over by the God Doom. And it's not as if Secret Wars has been too shy about LGBTQ representation, what with Runaways, teases in Planet Hulk and (I understand) upcoming issues of Siege. But when the light hearted Secret Love Secret[...]
Midnighter, To Russia With Hate
You are the Midnighter. You want to impress someone on a date. You have a teleporter. Where do you take them? Well in today's Midnighter #2 by Orlando and
Riven Seal – An LGBTQIA Fantasy on Kickstarter
They knew I run an indie press for LGBTQIA romance and so might be able to help them. Riven Seal is exactly my kind of story: fantasy, magic, demon summoning There's solid story-telling here, especially in how the summoning has a serious impact on the world, with laws, regulations, and more built around it I definitely[...]
Cleaning Up DC Comics' LGBT History With The Advocate
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUP_9BB6zWo[/youtube] The Advocate's Jase Peeples presented a special episode of DC All Access on YouTube, looking at the history of LGBT characters in DC Comics as part of Pride month, but makes a number of curious omissions. While it looks at what may have been clumsier efforts to portray such characters and issues in the past, he[...]