LGBTQ Roll Call

[neo_prodigy]

With June being LGBTQ Pride, I couldn't think of a better time to do a Roll Call celebrating exceptional LGBTQ characters in comics.


While there have been a number of LGBTQ characters, most of them at best have been relegated to minor characters and at worst deplorable homophobic queer minstrel shows.
And don't get it conflated.

Visibility is not progress.

If it were then the Rawhide Kid and Northstar would be progressive trailblazing characters.

 So no, this isn't just my list of queer comic characters.

This is a salute to the elite characters who have provided me with a more than a few OH HELL YEAH! moments.
A list of characters and made me proud to be a comic book geek and an LGBTQ.

Also, if you haven't already, feel free to check out my recent post on No_Scans discussing Queer Tropes to better understand where I'm coming from on this.


That being said: ROLL CALL!!!!!!!

 

Batwoman










Jack Harkness










Ianto Jones










The Question (Renee Montoya)











Ozymandias




Black Cat



Daken



Destiny



Mystique




Rictor & Shatterstar 

 


 

 



And by the by: The Greeks/Romans/Spartans were like TOTALLY GAY!!!!! (nsfw)


Victoria Hand





Richie Foley/Gear









Dani Baptiste





Tim Gunn

He's awesome and must therefore be included.



Catwoman (Holly Robinson)



Lafayette Reynolds



Scandal Savage



Hulkling



Karolina Dean



Wiccan



HE"S GAY HONEY!!!! Stop trying to recruit. Straight people: Always trying to push their heterosexual agenda on us God-fearing gays. ;D




Xavin







Achilles







DAYUM is my boyfriend sexy!!!!

Go ahead. It's okay to look.

THAT"S CLOSE ENOUGH.

I'm gonna need you to back away from my man, right the hell now.

Satsu













(Ultimate) Colossus









Not sure if the live-action movie version featured 616 Colossus or Ultimate Colossus.

It really doesn't matter because you're a fool if you think I"m about to pass up a chance to partake in some Grade-A beefcake like one Daniel Cudmore.








Willow Rosenberg

















Tara MaClay













John Constantine







Xena






The Midnighter



Apollo & The Midnighter







Now, I'm willing to bet there are some gems out there that myself and others may not be aware of and/or should (re)consider checking out.

So if you have any recommendations of awesome exceptional prominent LGBTQ characters in comics then by all means, sharing is caring. Please post them away in the comments.

 

Comments

[shadowpsykie]

i think you are being incredibly unfair to the Dumbledore story. He loved some one and lost him, if this was written with a female character in stead of two males people would just go "awe how sad" but with a gay character it suddenly becomes a thing of homophobia?

there were also many platonic relationships as well,

as well as Sirius and Remus' close relationship (notice Remus did not even NOTICE Tonks until Sirius was dead)

we are just going to have disagree on this one. I saw Albus' story as the story of a man who has loved once and possibly never been able to find some one else who even came near to that love, only to have to lost that love.

the story is called Harry Potter, not Albus Dumbledore, its not HIS story. No one really knew his story, and that was as much a part of his character as anything else. We didn't get the whole affair, it was Albus' personal life. he told the parts that he was willing to tell. you could tell when his spirit spoke of it how much he loved and how much he hurt. he does not need to come out and say "I desired him very much" he didn't NEED to say that, because you could from the writing just how he felt. And you could tell that Grindelwald felt "Something" for him, even if it was nothing more than respect of thier old friendship, when he refused to tell Voldemort where the wand was.

i know nothing i say is going to change either of our minds, i just think we needed to be fairer to some of these characters than we are

[galateus]

lol no

Subtext is not a substitute for text. There are roughly OVER NINE THOUSAND textual het relationships in HP, JKR could've easily been more inclusive (no publisher's going to seriously restrict the content of one of the best-selling kids' series in years), but she chose not to be. The *intentional* subtext of Albus & Grindelwald may be better than nothing, but it just highlights the big, gaping absence more.

[sistermagpie]

as well as Sirius and Remus' close relationship (notice Remus did not even NOTICE Tonks until Sirius was dead)

Which was why a lot of fans were disappointed when the author specifically hung girlie pictures on Sirius' bedroom walls. (Which of course doesn't prove he was absolutely straight, of course, but the only explicit interest Sirius and Remus ever show sexually it's het.)

I agree with galateus, though. There were so many het relationships just as little reason for us to know, but we knew them all the same--explicitly. Dumbledore's story isn't even told to us by him, but by other people most of the time--especially people like Rita Skeeter who would eagerly include that Albus was potentially in love with Grindelwald instead of just thrilled to have finally found a friend as smart as he was.

It's not that the subtext isn't there, imo, but there's really nothing so special about the GG/DD relationship that prevents it from being stated along with all the others except someone deciding to treat it differently. Obviously many many people were dense enough not to get it because the revelation was big (but not scandalous iirc) news-even to people who saw the subtext and assumed it wasn't intentional.