A Gay Kiss in the Mainstream Comic World

by Michael Jones · 2009-07-06 21:10:00 +1000
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Comic BookWhat do you get when you put two male comic book characters in a lip lock?

The mainstream comic world's first gay kiss.  It's the "Ellen" moment of the comic book world, one might say, with the 45th issue of X-Factor, a critically-acclaimed series from Marvel.  The same-sex kiss occurs between characters Rictor and Shatterstar, although don't take it as a sign that either of the characters are coming out.  Here's X-Factor writer Peter David:

I have much more fun tweaking the fans than actually spelling anything out.  I certainly don't think we could say at this point that Rictor is definitively gay. I think we could make the argument that he's bi, but I don't see the point at this juncture in spelling it out -- not because of any sense of homophobia or anything like that but out of a sense that I think it's more entertaining and more thought-provoking if we keep it ambiguous.

Gay, Bi, Questioning...either way, chalk this up as even more exposure for LGBT folks in the comic world.  Now if only we could get Daredevil to kiss someone of the same-sex.... :)

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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