Batwoman Comes Out

Batwoman Comes Out

Good news. Batwoman is a lesbian. And doesn't she make Batman and Robin look like wimps?

Rightwingers can legislate all they want, the real battle is fought in the trenches of the culture.

Batwoman is a lesbo, and the intolerant rightwingers are losing the cultural war.



BBC:

Comic book heroine Batwoman is to make a comeback as a "lipstick lesbian" who moonlights as a crime fighter, a DC Comics spokesman has confirmed.

The new-look Batwoman is just one of a wave of ethnically and sexually diverse characters entering the DC Comics universe.

Others include Mexican teenager Blue Beetle - who replaces the character's previous white incarnation - and the Great Ten, a government-sponsored team of Chinese superheroes.

Regular characters Firestorm and The Atom, meanwhile, have been reinvented as black and Asian heroes respectively.

The characters are part of a wider effort to broaden the make-up of comic-book creations in line with society as a whole.

Batwoman, who first appeared in July 1956, has not been seen since September 1979 when she was killed by the League of Assassins and the Bronze Tiger.