A gay Batgirl?
May. 31st, 2006 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewaynehttp://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72016
New York Times started talking about this Sunday, interviewing one of DC's editors about the upcoming new DC lineup.
"...Kathy Kane, who, according to the article: “…is a wealthy (socialite), buxom lipstick lesbian..."
There's a reason why I stopped reading Marvel and DC comics many MANY years ago. I have no problem with Batgirl being gay. I just have serious doubts that they'll carry it off well. Will they show her going on dates with women? Will she have a girlfriend to come home to at night? Will it be just so much fluff: "Look at me, I'm gay! I like women, I don't date men!"
There have been bisexual characters in main-stream comics before, it wouldn't surprise me if there have been gay characters in them before. There's no doubt that they've been in alternative/independent comics for a long time. I just doubt that DC will carry it off well. Now, if they had a gay female writer on the script, I would consider buying it. But I don't think that's the case.
And don't get me started on the breast size of most female comic characters! Geez.
New York Times started talking about this Sunday, interviewing one of DC's editors about the upcoming new DC lineup.
"...Kathy Kane, who, according to the article: “…is a wealthy (socialite), buxom lipstick lesbian..."
There's a reason why I stopped reading Marvel and DC comics many MANY years ago. I have no problem with Batgirl being gay. I just have serious doubts that they'll carry it off well. Will they show her going on dates with women? Will she have a girlfriend to come home to at night? Will it be just so much fluff: "Look at me, I'm gay! I like women, I don't date men!"
There have been bisexual characters in main-stream comics before, it wouldn't surprise me if there have been gay characters in them before. There's no doubt that they've been in alternative/independent comics for a long time. I just doubt that DC will carry it off well. Now, if they had a gay female writer on the script, I would consider buying it. But I don't think that's the case.
And don't get me started on the breast size of most female comic characters! Geez.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
despite appearances
Date: 2006-06-01 02:21 pm (UTC)They are specifically making Batwoman a lesbian, not Batgirl.
Sounds far more like titillation to me than any great desire to push the boundaries of gay culture into comics, but maybe they're sincere.