Is superboy gay

The Case For Gay Superboy [Pride Week]

 

In his widely-criticized and later thoroughly-debunked guide Seduction of the Innocent, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham argued that exposure to abuse, sex, and other adult themes in comic book pushed kids towards delinquency.

His argument grew so popular that it was cited in a U.S. Congressional inquiry and helped arouse the Comics Code Authority &#x; an agreement by comics publishers to self-regulate their content as a means to avoid government ordinance. Lasting from to , the CCA prohibited graphic hostility, hidden weapons, unpunished criminal activity, and excessive use of slang. Some rules also disallowed illicit sex relations, sexual abnormalities, sex perversion, and romance that didn&#x;t emphasize the sanctity of marriage.

Publishers and writers alike interpreted those rules to mean that they should exclude LGBTQ characters. It&#x;s not a difficult stretch to make, as Wertham himself treated homosexuality as deviant, and condemned Batman and Robin for the supposed lgbtq+ subtext bet

Jon Kent:Superboy Appreciation

That&#;s what I think as well. They&#;ve shown that they don&#;t really concern to even try to make him a genuinely interesting character, they just want to be capable to say they contain a bi Superman.

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It always rubs me the wrong way when I see people "thank" DC for creating a queer superhero on the level of Superman bi people can finally see themselves in because what&#;s so wrong with a bisexual Superboy? Jon is just as homosexual and bi when he&#;s Superboy as he is Superman and aged up (probably more so because I will keep bringing up the fact DC still has yet to publish a book where aged up Jon says the words and identifies himself as bi or bisexual).

If there was any real sincerity behind their statements, they would utter they see themselves in Jon the character, but no, they don&#;t, they say they see themselves in Jon the Bi Superman. Jon being a trailblazing bisexual Superboy accomplishes everything they think Jon does aged up but better.

I know they don&#;t care about the nature, only the gimmick, because the

Conner Kent/Kon-El/Superboy Appreciation

Damn, so you&#;re just going to crash out? Isn&#;t the point of these forums to talk about this little hobby we all share? I don&#;t get this place anymore. Are people looking for an echo chamber?

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Eh I represent most of the superb posters like you (not to blow smoke up your ass) have left. Only people left these days fall into three groups:

Complainers: These guys abhor everything and only display here to let us know that (Jeffery, All-Star Superman, Laser_Man).

Lurkers: These guys are here because… successfully I didn’t really understand why. Most of them never post they just watch. Your old buddy David Mann lurks here and he certainly doesn’t talk. I actually saw him seething on Twitter about me being positive regarding the Superbooks with one of his buddies who had a monkey in a Superman suit PFP. It was amusing because I stopped monitoring him beforehand because of how negative and whiny he had gotten, but the algorithm somehow knew he was talking about me I guess and threw him in my feed, he had reached the place he was talking a

Last updated on October 3rd,

On Monday (timed for National Coming Out Day), comic-related news broke that quickly made mainstream news: Superman’s son, Jon Kent, is coming out as bisexual in “Superman: Son of Kal-El” #5, due to come out November 9. The series’ premise is that Jon’s father is off on a lengthy mission in space. The teenage Jon, operating as Superboy until then, took over his Dad’s duties on Earth as Superman.

The news has been the buzz of the internet, and raised some other questions (some valid, some ludicrous), which I thought I’d acknowledge in this post.

This isn’t the “real” Superman? Also, Superman has a son?

As others have noted repeatedly, this isn’t “our” Superman, i.e. Clark Kent, who’s arrive out. This is Jonathan “Jon” Kent, the son of Superman and Lois Lane. (Clark and Lois got married back in , if you forgot.) Jon was born in in the (convoluted) crossover comic storyline “Convergence: Superman” #2 (July ), and named after his adoptive grandfather, Jonathan “Pa” Kent.

Until recently, Jon was portrayed as a grade-schooler. However, most DC/Marvel super