Comics

It’s the first time a DC comic has used the term that refers to some transphobes. Is it progress?

Dr. Victoria October isn’t the first transgender character in DC Comics and Lilah Sturges isn’t the first transgender writer to come out as trans.

Mary describes in tweets what she calls “probably the greatest single moment I have experienced” at her Fort Wayne comics store.

The writer of her latest comic book says the Amazon Princess is queer in a culture of women that is “absent of heteronormativity.”

He’s been part of a wildly popular superhero team since its very beginning. But there’s something we never knew about Bobby Drake, aka Iceman of the X-Men… Bobby is gay.

LOS ANGELES — Archie Andrews will die taking a bullet for his gay best friend. The famous freckle-faced comic book icon is meeting his demise in Wednesday’s installment of “Life with Archie” when he intervenes in an assassination attempt on Kevin Keller, Archie Comics’ first openly gay character. Andrews’ death, which was first announced in April, will mark the…

It’s a just quick kiss, but it’s a long step forward for Archie Comics’ only openly gay character Kevin Keller.

DC Comics, who recently brought us gay and lesbian comic book heroes Alan Scott (a.k.a., the Green Lantern) and Kathy Kane (the Batwoman), has introduced the first transgender character in a mainstream comic book series.

Apple, known for its tight controls over material and apps sold through its channels, has blocked the latest edition of a digital comic called “Saga” from being sold through comic book apps on the iPad and iPhone because it contained two scenes depicting gay sex.

Blaine Anderson and Kevin Keller? Betty Cooper and Noah Puckerman? Things are not as they usually are in the halls of William McKinley and Riverdale high schools.