In recent years, Gail Simone writing Batgirl presented a transgender character, Alysia Yeoh, as Batgirl/Barbara Gordon's flatmate, her backstory emerging
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Yikes!
— Gail Simone (@GailSimone) June 16, 2014
It is an important topic, trying to figure out if I can make it work because we are in New York and scheduled to go home today.
— Gail Simone (@GailSimone) June 16, 2014
I am kind of freaking out.
— Gail Simone (@GailSimone) June 16, 2014
Last night when I got the[...]
It's been argued that the most important portrayal of homosexuality in comic books is when it isn't a mater of comment. It just is. Could this be a
Or can maybe be curious, and after all, by most definitions the Q in LGBTQ does stand for 'curious' But I read it as teasing to be honest, and as Gillen himself has pointed out on his own Tumblr,
America teasing Kate's somewhat charmingly naive response to discovering she's a minority on the team is America[...]
Bleeding Cool writer Joseph Glass writes:
I've been working on my labour of love, The Pride, for some time now.
It's been long and hard, and the journey has been fraught with difficulties, but me and my team work very hard on bringing our vision of a drastically diverse team to life.
The Pride are a superhero team[...]
Joe Glass writes for Bleeding Cool:
Yesterday saw one of the most fun, lively and entertaining panels of NYCC Day 1, in the form of a discussion of the representation, presentation and future of LGBTQ and allied characters in comics.
We started off with a fun YouTube video arranged by Geeks OUT, where LGBTQ fans, including YouTube's[...]