14 – Be Gay, Fight Crime

This week, Pie and Lulu discuss the 2021 Marvel and DC Pride anthologies, which feature a variety of short comics about LGBT+ superheroes. Topics include the appearances of some of our favorite queer superheroes (hint: there’s a lot of X-Men), new and interesting characters we discovered thanks to these anthologies, and the state of LGBT+ representation in superhero comics in general.

Other Media Mentioned:

• Odd Spirits by S.T. Gibson
• 08 - An Anthropological Study of Cohabitating Vampires
• Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
• I, Claudia by Mary McCoy
• Sabriel by Garth Nix
• Suicide Squad: Bad Blood by Tom Taylor
• The Vast of Night (2019)
• Angela: Asgard’s Assassin by Kieron Gillen and Marguerite Bennett
• Midnighter by Steve Orlando
• Empyre by Al Ewing and Dan Slott
• Runaways (2003) by Brian K. Vaughn and Runaways (2017) by Rainbow Rowell
• Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing
• Academy X by Christina Weir and Nunzio DeFilippis
• X-Factor (2020-2021) by Leah Williams
• Young Avengers (2005) by Allan Heinberg and Young Avengers (2013) by Kieron Gillen
• New Mutants (1983) by Chris Claremont
• Dawn of X comics
• 10 - X-Men X-Travaganza
• New Mutants (2019) by Vita Ayala
• Batwoman by Marguerite Bennett
• DC Bombshells by Marguerite Bennett
• DC Future State comics
• CW Supergirl
• CW Legends of Tomorrow
• Doom Patrol (TV show)
• Bitches on Comics episode 100 - Centering on queer Brown people featuring Vita Ayala
• Beyond the Metaphor: Marvel’s Long Forgotten Trans Mutant by Dani Kinney for Women Write About Comics
• X-Factor’s Final Issue Was an Ugly Low Point for Marvel’s Queer Representation by Charles Pulliam-Moore for Gizmodo

Content Warnings:

Discussions of homophobia, biphobia, murder, a past abusive relationship, racism in comics, and sexual harassment by a comic book writer.

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