Agents of SHIELD adds a Gay Character

Comic Book Fans get excited!

Agents of SHIELD's new season started Tuesday and they introduced a gay character named Joey Gutierrez.

In a Variety interview with star Chloe Bennet (Daisy Johnson), she talked about Joey:

Speaking of LGBT rights, I loved that the show introduced its first openly gay character in Joey. He’s struggling with his new Inhuman abilities and obviously has a different perspective from Daisy, but also perhaps some common ground because they’re both used to feeling like outsiders. What can you preview about their dynamic and what he could potentially add to the team?

Joey is the first person that she really feels like could be part of the team; they have to go through a certain level of assessment before that happens. As for him being gay, I was really, really happy to see that, and I am mostly happy to see how nonchalant it was and how subtle it was and how no one made a big deal about it. That’s the kind of reference to someone being gay that I like to see; it doesn’t affect the storyline in any way — it’s subtle, and I thought that was really good on the writers. Just like when people ask what it’s like to play a strong female character and it’s always a little frustrating…

I hope we will see more of him

Foolish Fans whine over Gay Characters in The Walking Dead

So, when the characters Aaron and his partner Eric were introduced on this week's The Walking Dead, dumb as fanbros lost their minds. In fact, they went to Twitter to voice their bigoted opinions.

Here are a few via Bleeding Cool

The walking dead just lost alot of fans with that gay shit @WalkingDead_AMC
— Lulu Romero (@lulucertified) February 23, 2015

Random ass butt hurt gay guys in my mentions cuz I tweeted why did 2 guys kiss on the Walking dead 😂😂😂
— Boss Don Dakota (@MacWitDa_Cheese) February 24, 2015

Had to go and put fags in the walking dead...... damn.......just damn
— Logan Williams (@Hibow88) February 23, 2015

These fools, if they only read the comic they would've known that Aaron and Eric have always been a part of the story. Ignorance is bliss

Get Ready for the First Gay Character on The Walking Dead

If you read the comic, you already know Aaron is. But if you don't I'll just leave this here. I don't want to spoil much.

Gay Love in Star Wars? Yes

In the latest version of the Star Wars role-playing game, The Rise of the Hutt Cartel, Jedis can soon experience same-sex relationships.

But the characters not controlled by the player, that's the only setback.

Here's more:

Jeff Hickman, executive producer of game developer BioWare, apologized for the delay in including the gay romance option.

'I realize that we promised SGR (same gender romance) to you guys and that many of you believed that this would be with a companion character,' Hickman wrote on his State of the Game blog yesterday (2 January).

'Unfortunately, this will take a lot more work than we realized at the time and it (like some other pieces of content we talked about earlier in the year) has been delayed as we focused on the changes required to take the game Free-to-Play.

'As we have said in the past, allowing same gender romance is something we are very supportive of.'

But he added that they will introduce more gay romance options in the future.

I love it when gay stuff seeps into geek stuff.

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Writers! Enough with the Sassy, DL, Thug, Housewife Assistant roles for Gay Black Men

Here is my mini-rant of the day...

While I'm happy about more Black gays on TV, I'm not excited about the roles.

It seems the roles for Black gay men are either: DL, whiny or queeny-Diva assistants. From Reality Shows to L.A. Complex, the diversity of gay roles are very limited.

But why is that? Why are we limited to this these particular roles? Is it easier to create these roles or is it all the writer knows about Black gay men? And I get it all about the character development, but does it have to start with these 'special' attributes?

Personally, I'm over the DL storylines. It may be alluring and mystical, but it reminds me of the fixation folks have over Mandingo. Why are we still fascinated with these DL stories? Can we get storyline about raising kids, running for office, solving mysteries or just traveling the world? Is that hard to do?

And what about these sassy roles? Child, if I see another gay Diva-assistant to some sorry Reality Housewife, I'm going to burn down a village.

Folks, these are not ideal roles or images we want. We should be asking for more diverse roles for Black gay men. Not all of us fantasize about the DL thug or the magical hairdresser.

I want a new set of characters representing the Black gay community. Our stories should not be limited to a few stereotypical characters. We are more than that and we should demand for better representation.

Question of the Day

What is missing from Gay-themed TV shows?

DC Comics will make a Prominent Character come Out

In a bold move (or to keep up with Marvel), DC Comics announced that one of its prominent characters' sexual orientation will change.

Here's the scoop:

One question asked at the DC panel today at Kapow, was about Dan’s interview with the Advocate in the USA. Specifically over the decision not to change any character’s sexual orientation when relaunching the DC Universe. At the time Dan stated they would introduce new LGBT characters rather than switch orientation, but the question asked why DC would switch race, size, age, all sorts of identifying features, but not orientation.

Surprisingly, DiDio stated that they had changed DC’s policy in this regard. And they are about to reintroduce a previously existing DC character who was previously straight and now will be “one of our most prominent gay characters.”

As Bob Wayne explained that, just like the President of the United States, the co-publisher’s policy on this “has evolved.”

Well, that's cute. But who will it be?

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Strange Lore Update: The Lovers - Jackson and Brandon

This is another drawing of my lead characters, Jackson and Brandon. This piece was created by Lindsay Ishihiro, a talented artist in Canada.

She really gave them so much life here. I love the way they look; Jackson is offering his heart and Brandon is willing to take it. You can also see Jackson's shadow powers as a smoky haze behind him.

When I created these characters, I wanted them to be something gay teens and adults would fall for.

Jackson is a charming country boy based from the guys I have "encountered" back home, or had major crushes on. He (and Brandon) is nothing like the gays we see on TV. In fact, I made sure they were no "Glee gays". I wanted to challenge the notion of what we think when it comes to gay youth. These guys are something different and hopefully, something exciting.

Brandon grew up in Chicago. So he's not a whiner and sulking heap of mess (no Bella). Brandon's a fighter and a nonsense guy, however he's still a kid. He drops his guard to those he trust and becomes vulnerable to the ones he deeply cares about. 

Jackson grew up in a mystical and magical world, yet he maintains a laid-back approach to things. He has learned to deal with being a supernatural being with the help of his father, Ken. Through Ken, Jackson has become a resilient young man. But if Jackson is pushed too far he could go dark. The last time that happened, people were slaughtered. So he has to keep it together, especially for Brandon's sake.

I get really excited talking about this project. I can't wait for this graphic novel to come together and I can get it out to the public. I really hope folks like it.

But before I close this post, please check out Lindsay's work and if you need some illustrated, let her know.

Gay Couple Hulkling & Wiccan Kiss in Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #9

After 7 years together, we see their kiss

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The Teen Titans get a Gay Team Member

The New 52 continues changing the DC comic universe by adding interesting characters. And for the first time ever, the Teen Titans gets a gay team member. His name is Bunker.

Here's the Twitter exchange between comic goddess, Gail Simone and TT artist, Brett Booth (Demonpuppy)

According to Bleeding Cool, his real name is Miguel Jose Barragan and he's from a small village in Mexico called El Chiar.

Interesting Quote: J.J. Abrams

It’s interesting because we’ve actually given so much thought to some of the more broad strokes, little like story structure issues that are for me the defining issues to how the movie gets made and whether or not I’m directing it and all that kind of stuff.
There are many people who say there have been gay characters in the show all throughout. [laughs] I would say that it is, you know, something that I would love to do, but just the way I would be careful doing a story that would involve any of the characters and their personal lives. The balance is always, what how does that story relate to sort of the bad guy, which by the way is always going to be that critical thing, what are they up against? The question how do you get into literally these are personal sexual lives of these characters? Like what is that going to be about. I don’t know who’s assuming characters aren’t gay or are gay. You know what I’m saying? 

J.J. talks about gay characters in Star Trek

Interesting Quote: Joss Whedon

I have actually wanted to do a book. I have one in mind. It's not on the front burner. You write enough lesbians and you start to realize: This is just a guy. This isn't feminism. This is Cinemax. I think it's time for a little equal opportunity. Besides, who doesn't love cock?

Joss talking about writing a gay male lead character.

DC Comics talks about the LGBT characters in their Universe

DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan Didio talked to The Advocate about the LGBT heroes in their universe and what we will see in upcoming issues.


Check out the article's highlights:

Why did you choose to attach such a high-profile gay character to Batman as apposed to other characters like Superman or Wonder Woman?
There’s a lot more characters that inhabit Batman’s world. We knew we were interested in reintroducing the Batwoman character to his mythology and we also wanted to show a [different] point of view…because some of those characters without superpowers come from the same sense of grief in their past. Establishing [Batwoman] as a lesbian early on it givers her a different sensibility, a different point of view, and it also allows us to tell stories from a different angle that sets her apart from the other characters in Batman’s world.

In addition to Batwoman, Apollo and Midnighter, you’re also introducing a female bisexual African American superhero in Voodoo. Was it a conscious decision to introduce characters from across the LGBT spectrum? Yes. What we really wanted to do was show the diversity of our audience across the line of our books. Right now we have such a wide fan base and we wanted to create characters and stories that really reflected [that] fan base.

DC has several popular teenage heroes such as Robin, Wonder Girl, Superboy and the other Teen Titans. With gay teens becoming more visible in the media, can readers expect to see a teenaged gay superhero in the future?
One of the things we’re very focused on doing for these types of stories is rather than [change an existing] character, we want to make sure that this is the basis of who that character is right from the start. So if we’re going to introduce a gay character in Teen Titans, we want to make it a new character and make sure that is an iatrical part of who he is, or who she is, right from the start so we can really lean and grow with her or him.

Please continue to read this piece on DC LGBT universe.

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WATCH: Days of Our Lives' Gay Character - Sonny Kiriakis

This is a big deal for me. I grew up watching DOOL, even scheduled my college classes around the series.

To see a Gay Kiriakis is really something.

Gay Comic Character gets His Mini-Series

Archie's Kevin Keller gets his own 4 part mini-series.

The four-issue series shows how Keller arrived in Riverdale, where he's become close pals with Archie and the gang. But it will also deal with heavier fare than the typical "Archie" comic -- including how the character struggled with coming out to his parents, and bullying. 

If the title does as well as Archie co-CEO Jon Goldwater expects, it could lead to an ongoing series for the character, whose presence in the imaginary town would have been unthinkable not long ago. "This is the most important book this company has released in 70 years," Goldwater said. 

Sounds exciting, I hope these are good stories to read about.

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A Gay storyline in 'Days of Our Lives'?

This will be interesting. Apparently, there a gay storyline coming to DOOL; and it's about time, considering most of audience of 'Days' has been gays for the last 40 years.

EW.com reports

As Days of Our Lives celebrates its 45th anniversary in daytime, the traditionally conservative soap is about to get a lot more contemporary: EW has learned exclusively that a gay storyline may be in the works! From what we gather, it may involve a current cast member hooking up with someone new.


A show spokeswoman declined to comment.

Well, they should have a gay storyline. I mean, they have had: demon possessions, Hope and Roman look alikes, Sami and everything she's done for over 15 years, Stefano and his zombie-ish returns, psychics, Susan/Kristen/Sister Mary Moira/Penelope Kent, fake pregnancies, John Black (DOOL version of Wolverine), Victor Kiriakis and Dr. Marlena Evans, Melaswen and the quick pre-teen to adults growths. (And yes, I watched it all)

Yeah, it time for gay on gay action

Star Trek Producer talks about the Lack of Gay Characters

Star Trek Producer Brannon Braga told AfterElton that he regrets not having a single gay character on the entire ST run.

Here is a piece of that convo:

AE: I'm very much a fan of Star Trek but unfortunately none of the series ever included a gay character. You were involved with writing two of the movies and produced or executive produced for The Next Generation, Voyager and Enterprise. Can you speak to why that never happened?
BB: It was a shame for a lot of us that ... I’m talking about the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and there was a constant back and forth about well how do we portray the spectrum of sexuality. There were people who felt very strongly that we should be showing casually, you know, just two guys together in the background in Ten Forward. At the time the decision was made not to do that and I think those same people would make a different decision now because I think, you know, that was 1989, well yeah about 89, 90, 91. I have no doubt that those same creative players wouldn’t feel so hesitant to have, you know, have been squeamish about a decision like that. 

AE: Why do you think science fiction, given that it’s so much forward looking, has done so poorly when it comes to being inclusive on American television?
BB: You know what’s funny is it was dealt with more metaphorically. Next Generation did a couple episodes you could say ... I worked on one for Deep Space Nine with Dax. I don’t know if I can speak to the whole genre of science fiction, certainly the Star Trek franchise as it existed at the time. 

AE: Do you think 20 years ago there was a reluctance to do it because science fiction, wrongly or rightly, is perceived as being for young straight males? Were you guys concerned about that?
BB: I think it was, not so much a young man’s [issue], it was a syndicated family show, showing at six o’clock, you know, in Salt Lake City, so you had to deal with each separate affiliate rather than one network. And things like that.
It was not a forward thinking decision. Knowing the players involved, knowing the decision makers, knowing it was that they felt reluctant about, you know, we’re not saying “yes,” we’re not saying “no,” we’re not just not going to touch that right now. 

Maybe more shows will follow through, or follow Torchwood.

GLAAD's Nominees for Outstanding Comic Book

GLAAD put out their list of nominees for the Media Awards!

The one I really, really care about is well, the Comic Books!

OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, by Scott Allie, Brad Meltzer, Joss Whedon (Dark Horse Comics)
Fogtown, by Andersen Gabrych (Vertigo/DC Comics)
Veronica, by Dan Parent (Archie Comics)
X-Factor, by Peter David (Marvel Comics)
Young Avengers: Children's Crusade, by Allan Heinberg (Marvel)

I have to say that Young Avengers should get it. Two of their lead characters are teen lovers and I think they send a great message to gay teenagers out there.

Gay Archie character will get his own Mini-Series

Since Kevin Keller came on the comic scene, Archie Comics have never been the same. And now we have more to look forward to... Kevin will get his own mini-series in 2011!

Feast of Fun has a great interview with Kevin's creator Dan Parent. Please check out their site, here.

Remember Alpha Flight #106 1992?

Northstar was the first superhero to come out