tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post7375495491220645316..comments2023-09-25T10:15:41.979-04:00Comments on NYSocBoy's Beefcake and Bonding: The Gay Men of Roy Crane's Adventure ComicsNYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-24135281638775156532020-01-03T10:01:55.265-05:002020-01-03T10:01:55.265-05:00Wertham believed that reading comic books was the ...Wertham believed that reading comic books was the main cause of "sexual perversion," by which he meant same-sex desire. In the 1950s they thought that men "turned" gay due to bad parenting (a clinging mother and a distant father), spending too much time around women, or seeing or hearing about gay people. Even theword "homosexual" was dangerous, used only in a medical context, and then sparingly; seeing it in print, or hearing it spoken, might turn you.NYSocBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-7329388111640184152020-01-02T08:18:22.786-05:002020-01-02T08:18:22.786-05:00Comics before the Bronze Age in a nutshell: Gay an...Comics before the Bronze Age in a nutshell: Gay and we didn't even mean it. (It's deliberate these days. If you saw Titans last season, you know what I mean. There is literally know way to interpret Dick Grayson's relaationship with a certain spoilerific male character as anything other than a tragic romance. Which brings us back to how the Bronze Age began.)<br /><br />It helps that any sort of story depends on having someone to talk to. So, if you have two male characters, even with the Comics Code's strictures about "sex perversion" (Holy bigoted language! I don't think Wertham likes us.), put them in any setting long enough and they'll have gay moments. And there are specifics to the type of gay moments in each genre. (What surprises me is how long it took for CMYK men to have nipples.)<br /><br />Actually, that can be said of pre-X generations as a whole. One tragic consequence of greater awareness about gays and lesbians has been that we all bite that forbidden fruit, and we can't return to the garden. (Maybe it's a bottled city now.) But we can embrace this new understanding.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com