Batwoman
There have been multiple iterations of Batwoman, but none has caused quite the stir that Kate Kane did in 2006 when she was introduced by the higher-ups in DC to diversify the cape and cowl set. Regardless of the tokenism that played a role in her introduction, Kate Kane’s Batwoman has, due in no small part to the stellar writing of Greg Rucka, become a well-rounded and intensely interesting character in her own right. This distinction is all the more ironic considering that, when Batwoman was first introduced in 1956 as Kathy Kane, Bruce Wayne’s girlfriend, she was essentially a literary beard for a character that had infamously been accused of homosexuality by the likes of Seduction of the Innocent author Frederic Wertham.
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This list should probably include Maggie Sawyer who was one of first out lesbians in big two comics appearing prior to both Batwoman and Renee Montoya. Sawyer was a regular in the Superman comics and later the Batman comics most recently appearing in the Batwoman run in Detective Comics. Also a quick clarification on Renee Montoya. She was developed for the animated Batman show but actually ended up appearing in comics first. Her coming out story didn’t occur until ten years after her first appearance in comics.
You missed Madame Xanadu! She was an occasional character in the DC universe starting in 1978 but had her own Vertigo series from 2008-2010. Starting in Issue 11 she is revealed to be bisexual and has a long-term relationship with another woman during the Spanish Inquisition.
There’s also Karolina and Xavin in “Runaways”
I don’t agree that the Rawhide Kid was a negative depiction, per se. I read and enjoyed the whole series, appreciating it as pure camp. The story and characters (all of them, not just the Kid) are silly and over the top and much of the humor is delivered (literally) with a wink and a nudge. While some more sensitive or stodgy readers may have seen this as thick-headed, I saw it as part of the great tradition of lurid and campy homo-humor.
This week’s issue of Mark Waid’s Irredeemable (BOOM comics)has the now-evil Plutionian theorizing that his long-time archenemy, Modeus (now inhabiting the dead body of Plutonian’s sidekick), had once built six robot duplicates of the Plutonian as sex-toys because Modeus is secretly in love with Plutonian.
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Agree about including Maggie Sawyer, definitely. Otherwise, nice list. Here’s an interesting read that compliments: Eric Diaz’s The 10 Most Important Gay Moments in Comic Book History. Thanks for the article.
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