The 25 Awesomest LGBTQ Comic Book Characters

[neo_prodigy]

Recently someone linked me to a 7 Best Gay Characters In Comics list. While the list was solid, I was inspired to compose my own list of the 25 awesomest LGBTQ characters in comic books and/or comic book themed media/adaptations.

Besides being an accomplished published writer, artist who knows his crafts and a lifelong unapologetic rabid comic book

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[aphephobia]

And here I was, planning on not hitting the comic book shop this week with my paycheck. :P

OMG, I'm intrigued by so many of these characters and their series... many of whom are unfamiliar to me.

Also, Marvel? Have a ban on queer characters...? I'm really stunned and disgusted by that. I'm conflicted, because I really want to buy Young Avengers now, though.

I still smile when I see Kevin Keller, though. I remember B&V when I was a kid, for one thing, and I think if they can introduce a queer character respectfully and awesomely (and I LOVE that his personality consists of more than "Hello, I'm a gay stereotype"), bloody well anyone could.

Finally, this: If they had it their way, they would have you think that Zeus and Ganymede were platonic drinking buddies had me giggling and me remembering year seven history class when we talked about Ancient Greece.

[neo_prodigy]

The Marvel ban was lifted some years ago but yeah....um yeah. I would urge you to buy Young Avengers. It's a great series and one of the few that shows queer characters in a respectful light.

[viciouswishes]

A day late to the party, but it wasn't just a ban from Marvel (though certain editors-in-chief have certainly directed the course of queer characters appearing in comics). It was the Comics Code Authority, which sought to "morally" regulate and censor comics, which had a ban on queer characters and was used by, especially the big publishers, as a marketing tool to assure parents that their children weren't being "corrupted." The idea and propaganda surrounding it was very similar to the ratings of video games or parental advisory stickers on CDs. The comics industry used the CCA from the 1950s-the early 1990s.

[myrrhmade]

Damn, I need to read more comics apparently. Because Daken is seriously fine.

[tammy_moore]

Hey, you have three of my favourite characters ever on there: Tara, Midnighter and Daken. AND my favourite comic romance: Destiny and Mystique.

I always thought that Destiny and Mystique had the most grown up relationship in Marvel. There was a real sense of being long-term sweethearts with them, a weight and tolerance that buoyed their affection for each other up whenever one or the other screwed up. And Mystique's lingering, very real grief for Destiny is a thread that seems to run through everything she does.

Plus, hanging on Scans Daily I thought I was one of the only people who thought Daken's sophisticated debauchery was cool.

[azn_jack_fiend]

Excellent analysis of Jack in a comic book character context!

[scottyquick]

XAVIN! <3. The best Runaway of them all.