Introduced as a rival to Wonder Woman, Achilles broke much ground right there. Because queer characters are rarely (if ever) placed on equal footing with the prominent cis heterosexual superheroes
There was a lot of lesbian subtext in the original Wonder Woman comics. Have you seen the "Suffering Sappho!" section on SuperDickery?
The Spartans were like totally gay! The Greeks were like totally gay!
It is now YOUR fault that I envision some Spartan soldier in bed, wife on top, and the soldier thinking "Just lie back and think of Sparta." >.'Course, at least a few had to be bi, as the Spartan Herald in Aristophanes "Lysistrata" shows up with blue balls and an erection he can't quite hide (his "Spartan spear"), during the period when the women of Greece were denying sex to the menfolk until the men stopped the Peloponnesian War, and both the herald and Athenian have the hots strong enough for the girl "Reconciliation" that they agree to give up fighting (ménage à trois, anyone
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This list is awesome thank you. The graphic novel list is particularly timely as my youngest (at oh my gods 18) is an online comic nut and his dad and I are encouraging him to branch out and read the good stuff in printed form. The cool thing is I've been having fun catching up on stuff along the way... I get to do Sandman next, so your list is totally going on the family reading list!
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Introduced as a rival to Wonder Woman, Achilles broke much ground right there. Because queer characters are rarely (if ever) placed on equal footing with the prominent cis heterosexual superheroes
There was a lot of lesbian subtext in the original Wonder Woman comics. Have you seen the "Suffering Sappho!" section on SuperDickery?
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An island full of beautiful immortal female warriors who have lived in seclusion for hundreds of years and none of them have fucked around?
Really? Seriously?
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And they really, really enjoyed tying each other up. In the name of "training", of course. *coughcough*
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It is now YOUR fault that I envision some Spartan soldier in bed, wife on top, and the soldier thinking "Just lie back and think of Sparta." >.'Course, at least a few had to be bi, as the Spartan Herald in Aristophanes "Lysistrata" shows up with blue balls and an erection he can't quite hide (his "Spartan spear"), during the period when the women of Greece were denying sex to the menfolk until the men stopped the Peloponnesian War, and both the herald and Athenian have the hots strong enough for the girl "Reconciliation" that they agree to give up fighting (ménage à trois, anyone ( ... )
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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7700/7700-h/7700-h.htm
Excerpt:Enter SPARTAN HERALD ( ... )
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Another film I think you'll like and I love is a Japanese movie called Taboo. I discovered Tadanobu Asano from this movie :)
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