Date: 2009-05-29 09:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asmith161718.insanejournal.com
jericho is not gay.

Date: 2009-05-29 10:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jlroberson.insanejournal.com
He's not?

Though it's true no self-respecting gay man would have had that hair after 1981. (and not those muttonchops since...I don't know, 1974)

Date: 2009-05-29 10:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freddylloyd.insanejournal.com
According to The Titans Companion, George Pérez considered making Jericho, his creation, gay—which probably in the mid-1980s would have meant fighting the company for some ambiguous portrayal.

But then Pérez thought that depicting a character he'd already decided was artistic and emotionally sensitive as homosexual would be perpetuating a stereotype.

Not to mention that this gay character would have come already nobly handicapped, and with the power to go inside people's bodies. The symbolisms could have been overwhelming.

I seem to recall this, yes.

Date: 2009-05-30 12:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nefrekeptah.insanejournal.com
So instead, Perez took the opposite route and made Joey a real heart-breaker, with a different girl on his arm every week.

If I remember correctly, the guy was getting more tail than Dick at one point.

Date: 2009-05-30 11:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] perletwo.insanejournal.com
And bell sleeves! A dead giveaway.

Date: 2009-05-31 10:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jlroberson.insanejournal.com
Come to think of it, for someone whose power consisted of being disembodied and taking over other people's bodies, he had an awfully elaborate costume.

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