Let's not forget Harlequin is gay now despite decades of relationships with men from Joker to Dick Grayson.
OK, so she's bi. None of this really matters. It's just a way for them to get attention and drum up sales. Whether or not this is actually doing any of that, I have no idea. I also don't give a shit about 'muh romance' in superhero comics no matter what the characters' sexual orientations are- the wedding issue with Cyclops and Jean Grey was just as boring as the wedding issue with Northstar and his boyfriend.
Notice they always make characters bi. It's a convenient way to backtrack if the move isn't popular. Few are truly gay. They're bi so that eventually they can be switched back. It's a cynical move done to get sales towards LGBT audiences.
I also disagree. Romance can be done right. The romance between Lois and Clark is top tier adds so much emotion during moments like Superman dying. Seeing such a strong woman like Lois utterly broken and devastated was really sad.
Finally, despite my rantings I'm not even against lgbt characters. I'm against artistically bad gay characters.
My go to here would be The Wire.
In The Wire there are MULTIPLE gay characters and yet their being gay is the least interesting thing about them. Characters like Omar.
People call Omar cigarillo and he just says,"you come at the king, best not miss" and we cheer for him. People call him a cigarillo and act homophobic towards him and he dusts it off his shoulder like it's nothing. Traits like this only reinforce Omar's character because now we are forced to imagine what it was like to grow up in such a harsh and hard environment while being gay. It makes us empathize with Omar even more despite his homosexuality not being at the forefront.
There's the police detective captain. He's a hard ass in the office and then one scene some characters go into a gay bar and Rawls (the captain) is there.
It doesn't linger. It's never brought up again. He never admits it. And yet it puts him into focus.
DC already has multiple legit gay characters and they have been written in far more compelling ways than the modern "MOM I'M GAY LET'S KISS" shit. Take the aforementioned gay characters in DC where they're shoving how gay they are every panel versus Maggie, who exists in the same universe and is canonically lesbian (not bisexual like how most modern hacks write lgbt characters). Look how Maggie's story is written.
It is tastefully done AND well written. I think censors lead to better comic book art. It's the Seinfeld Phenomenon. Seinfeld is more funny than Curb despite being from one half of the original Seinfeld writing team because in Seinfeld you couldn't cuss, in Curb you can. This leads to Seinfeld using clever terminology like "master of my domain" or "I was doing.....it. I will never do...THAT, again!" It's like the best art needs a censor of some type.
Modern relationships in comics has two lgbt characters making out every issue. Even Lois and Clark aren't that mushy and they've got a kid together.
I guess my point is that I'm allergic to bad art. There's a worlds difference between Maggie, a character worth admiration, and Galaxy, a character that should make you want to puke. One is a written like a human. The other like an agenda.
This adds fuel to the fire that most millennials are bad artists.
