Tag: Comic Books
Texas high school bans graphic novel on Pulse shooting over its “extreme homosexuality”
In a recent personal column published by The Dallas Voice, Anna Waugh — a lesbian former English teacher at Irving High School near Dallas, Texas — said that her school banned Love is Love, an LGBTQ anthology comic book created to honor and fundraise for the victims of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting. Waugh says the process to ban the book (and keep it banned) was sketchy and lacked accountability.
In the column, Waugh writes:
In the spring of 2018, my...
George Takei will star in a TV horror about real-life American concentration camps
George Takei, the out gay actor best known for originally playing Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek, will soon appear in The Terror: Infamy, the second of AMC‘s horror anthology series. The series will depict a dark period of history that Takei himself lived through: the internment of Japanese-American citizens into 68 concentration camps across the U.S. during World War II.
Takei will play Yamato-San, a community elder and former fishing captain who must stay strong as the community faces a...
