APE IN A CAPE: After Some Debate...

APE IN A CAPE: After Some Debate...:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

gailsimone:

… I decided to post this note, or most of it. I have removed the names so that the writer is anonymous. This was sent to me on an account where I am no longer a moderator, so I can’t respond directly, so it seemed fair to post a short response here.

I actually got a lot of letters like this for a…

I don’t see how having a pro-LGBTQ  agenda is in any way a bad thing Gail and I thank you for including LGBTQ characters in your work. I hope that we’re going to see some in Batgirl soon as your one of the few writers in comics who actually seems to be bothered with including anything other than nothing but white heterosexuals in your work and you write excellent LGBTQ characters.

And the DCU has a serious need for more of them

There are barely any lesbian characters, even fewer gay male characters, perhaps a total of two bisexuals that I can think of and I have yet to see one single Transgender character in a mainstream superhero comic book.

I loved Catman and I loved him even more when you revealed he was Bi. I hope that when he next appears you get the chance to make this canon because there is no such thing as having too many LGBTQ characters in comic books

I PROMISE I am working on it. There were and are lgbtq characters in both Firestorm and Batgirl, but they haven’t been revealed yet and now I have left Firestorm, so both a prominent lgbtq character and a prominent pwd hero I had developed will probably not appear in Firestorm, sadly.

I do have two new projects I am working on that await final approval. If they go through, well, they are two of the most diverse casts ever at either DC or Marvel AND they kick very much mucho lots bookoo ass.

I am sorry it takes longer for this stuff to actually appear than hoped, no one is sadder about that than the creators involved.