From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V6 #119 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Monday, June 26 2006 Volume 06 : Number 119 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Xena Ref in Superman Chicago Tribune article ["Daniel ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:52:57 -0700 (PDT) From: "Daniel T. Miller" Subject: [chakram-refugees] Xena Ref in Superman Chicago Tribune article ______________________ Chicago Tribune Sunday June 11 Section 7 Pages 16-17 Will gay appeal help sell "Superman"? By John Horn Tribune Newspapers (SNIP) Despite the gay-branding issues "Superman" might face, there are a number of hit pop culture products that have benefited greatly from gay and lesbian fans. The 1990s TV series "Xena: Warrior Princess" had a loyal and large following among lesbians (which the show courted) and the rock band Queen maintained a huge audience of young straight males despite the gay imagery of its name, music and stage shows. In comics, it has become common to not only create new gay characters but also to rework the mythology of longtime heroes to make them gay, as is the case with both Batwoman and Colossus. (SNIP) ___________________________________________________________________ Rather disappointing article as it just brings up recent quotes and fails to mention that Superman is basically Jewish. His creators were Jewish - as were most of the writers and artists who created the classic superhero characters of the 30s and 40s. (And a lot of them were first or second generation.)But trying to explain the concept of closeted or semi-closeted Jews would probably be a whole another article. And of course (though I don't know of any survey to show how many) as a pop art form which has so much in common with the theatre, comics has always had many gay writers and artists. Batwoman gay? Kathy whatshername? I wasn't even sure she existed in whatever is the current continuity of the Batman universe. She was a character from the 1950s and I don't think she has been seen much since. All before I was born, if I hadn't read a lot of reprints of old comics (and still do) I would not have even heard of her. Now, if the Barbara Gorden (the second Batgirl) was gay--that would be be more of a big deal. All this sounds more like pandering to the Simpsons Comic Book Guy type of males. The average Batman and X-mutant comics are probably getting so bad that not even they are reading them. :~) Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V6 #119 **************************************