Comics The History Of Gay Comic Book Superheroes

Straight up, a gay superhero is coming to your TV. Got a problem with it? Suck it.

Pause. Take a second to acknowledge how far we’ve come as a society that comic legend Stan Lee is executive producing a series about a gay superhero for Showtime. The project is based on openly gay writer/director Perry Moore’s novel Hero, which tells the story of Thom Creed, a teenager and the world’s first homosexual superhero, who wrestles with his secret identities when he’s not pinning villains.

Creed isn’t actually the first gay do-gooder. (Did you really think the super-chiseled men in tights running with the super-chiseled man-women were straight?) Whether their homosexuality was declared or merely implied, gay heroes have long existed in comics and have helped pave the way for this new series. Check out some of the gay do-gooders to grace the pages of Marvel and DC comics over the years. (Forget the indies'like indie rock and indie rap, it goes without saying that they’ve always been gay)…

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TV 5 Characters Who Are Holding ‘Heroes’ Back

For all the hand-wringing that’s been going on around Heroes, it’s finally clear that the show’s been in decline for longer than it’s been…well, good. And now the heads are finally starting to roll: this morning brought news that two of the show’s executive producers, Jesse Alexander and comic-book vet Jeph Loeb, have been axed like questions.

All we have to say is: it’s a start. But if it were up to us, we’d be cutting a little more dead weight from the series we used to love (but now just watch for the petite blondes). Check out the five people that need to become ex-heroes for the show to get better…

Girls Hayden Panettiere’s Sexual Harassment PSA

Cheerleaders are not funny. Neither are teen actresses. But in a new video from Will Farrell’s site Funny Or Die, Heroes‘ P.Y.T. Hayden Panettiere gives the whole humor thing a go. “Sexual harassment is wrong, even if it makes you feel good,” she says with a straight face. Watch the video after the jump.