The queer subtext of Superman comics has long been suppressed. Here's to the original justice defender coming out

  • Written by: Jason Bainbridge, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
The queer subtext of Superman comics has long been suppressed. Here's to the original justice defender coming outDC Comics

Superman is bisexual.

Not the movie-starring, Lois Lane-loving , Klan-fighting, Muhammad Ali-boxing, returned-from-the-dead , mild-mannered man of steel Clark Kent (aka Kal-El, last son of Krypton). But rather his son, Jonathan Kent, named after Clark’s adoptive father and current bearer of the Superman moniker.

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