LGBTQ Archives

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),[...]

And that's just the beginning. Erika left a striking impression on me as an emerging drag talent and a geek-inspired one at that, so if you fancy something a little bit different, check out one of her shows now! You can follow Erika on twitter, tumblr and Instagram. Joe Glass is a Bleeding Cool reporter and 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[...]

An outside effect CAUSES your difference. If we take this from the queer reading standpoint, it's like saying that something happens to a person to make them gay – a dangerous viewpoint which has led to all kinds of problems for the LGBTQ community, not least of which recently are gay conversion therapies, where they try[...]

Attendees were greeted by a large image of a panel from Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's New X-Men, featuring Emma Frost, which was pointed out as an important representation of the importance of the growing diversity of creators and characters in comics. With a panel including Marjorie Liu, Jeremy Whitley, Shannon Watters, Joey Stern, Amber Garza[...]

Moreover, he's also a comic creator himself, writing LGBTQ superhero series The Pride, and co-writing Welsh horror comedy, Stiffs. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ By Joe Glass Last night saw the gay men who like the tight spandex world of[...]

By Joe Glass New York TimesOUT is bringing the LGBTQ wonder to New York Comic Con this year, starting with this panel today, featuring Kris Anka, James Tynion IV, Babs Tarr, Kevin Wada, Jenny Wood, and a late and running Steve Orlando. Asking Steve about Midnighter, one of the only monthly books from DC about an unapologetic,[...]

  There was some concern that the mythology-established and Marvel-hinted bisexuality of the character Hercules was going to be removed in the

We know that this scene is coming in Wonder Woman's future. We just don't know how soon. But I'm going with “pretty soon”. But with Wonder Woman and

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

That might have been the question you could have heard in comic store later this month. But Northwest Press is only publishing The Collected Black Gay Boy

Many of the gods themselves take lovers of both genders in the many myths (of course, they also tend to take lovers across species too). For Alonso to completely shut down any discussion on Hercules as a bi character (it's worth noticing how CBR notes that Marvel refused to answer any further questions on the topic)[...]

CBR has it straight from Marvel's EIC Axel Alonso. regarding a second Brian Bendis Iron Man title that he had teased. Brian and David are playing the long

He appeared on the list of upcoming Marvel teasers that Bleeding Cool ran during San Diego Comic Con. With this news, does that mean that all of them will

@Boarhound Porcelain is in fact genderfluid. :) — GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) July 16, 2015 It had previously been suggested that Porcelain, a new member of

By Joe Glass Roger Klorese moderated another Prism Comics hosted LGBTQ panel, the annual Gays in Comics panel that has been running at San Diego Comic Con for an impressive 28 years The original moderator was in fact in the audience, who had been involved in that very first panel way back in 1989 A longer[...]

By Joe Glass Hosted again by LGBTQ comics non-profit, Prism Comics, this is the second in the annual Geek Year in Review panels they've held at San Diego Comic Con. A fun panel discussing the LGBTQ related geek news that broke into mass media, it was hosted by Prism Comics board member and creator of Web of[...]

By Joe Glass One of Prism Comics many LGBTQ related panels over the course of SDCC, they ran this year a panel discussing among creators some of things to consider when writing trans characters and their experiences. Moderated by Prism Comics Board Member Tara Madison Avery (Gooch), the panel featured Knave Murdok (Transcat), Ronnie Ritchie (Gqutie), Kat[...]

By Joe Glass For those who read my last piece from SDCC 2015, this will be an interesting follow up to show the other side of attitudes and experiences here that thankfully is far more prevalent. Prism Comics is a non-profit organisation that looks to collect and support LGBTQ comics with related themes or by queer creators,[...]

A week-and-a-bit ago, Justice League 3001 #1 by JM DeMatteis, Keith Giffen and Howard Porter, published by DC Comics, featured the following exchange

Peter S Svensson writes from Image Expo and shares his notes... Midnighter's Steve Orlando is back at Image with JD Faith for their new comic, Virgil.

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

One week till I see Ant-Man, fly out to San Diego and read the second issue of Providence. Everything else is leading up to that. But this is the week

This is Pride weekend the world over. The US Supreme Court has just mandated (I said "man dated") the implementation of gay marriage rights across the

Waiting for @richjohnston "And the Comics Industry Reacts to... Marriage Equality." I expect it no later than 2pm Cali time,

Yesterday, we ran a snippet from the new launch issue of Justice League 3001, featuring the future cloned versions of Batman and Superman discussing the

From Justice League 3001 #1 out today as part of the DC You mini-relaunch. A comic book in which the Guy Gardner clone character discovers that he is now

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[...]