Tag: DC Comics

The upcoming Birds of Prey superhero film from the DC Comics Extended Universe will feature gay and lesbian characters. There will be two “gay coded” villains named Black Mask and Victor Zsasz, bisexual villain Harley Quinn and lesbian police detective named Renee Montoya. The Birds of Prey film will be released in 2020 and will follow the story shown in the 2016 film Suicide Squad. At this point, Batman has disappeared, leaving a group of female heroes — Black Canary, Huntress, and Montoya...

The internet geekverse has gone all atwitter over a rumor that the Batman villain Black Mask will be portrayed as gay in a new movie. Warner Bros. has announced that Black Mask will serve as the primary villain in the film adaptation of Birds of Prey, a spinoff of the “Batman family,” and part of the DCEU series of films. Now gossip site We Got This Covered reports that Black Mask will be portrayed as gay, albeit in a subtle manner. Apparently, the...

In its new Hanna-Barbera line of comics, DC is making official something fans have long believed: Snagglepuss, the beloved pink mountain lion that debuted in 1959, is gay. More specifically, he is being portrayed as a “gay southern gothic playwright.” Mark Russell, the writer for the new comics, says the move is “not much of a stretch,” and the Internet seems to mostly agree with him. https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/826574576998023168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/frankiesamba/status/826617084327124992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/LucindaLunacy/status/826480992911233024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Snagglepuss was a reoccurring character in the Yogi Bear show starting in 1960s. He often...