HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!🏳️🌈 SO HERE’S the thing: queer characters existed in comic book form long before mainstream superhero books finally caught up. Unambiguous LGBTQ+ representation in comics predates both Flash villain-turned-ally Hartley Rathaway’s (The Pied Piper) declaration of his homosexuality in DC Comics’ The Flash Vol. 2 #53 (Aug 1991) and fellow Canadian Jean-Paul Beaubier’s […]
“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.” – E.M. FORSTER Cover Image: The First Official Pride Picnic that took place at Hanlan’s Point Beach In August 1971 / A poster of the 1973 Gay Pride Week in Toronto. The year I was born! RIGHT NOW, it’s a particularly tumultuous time for members […]
FOR ME, one of Anne Rice’s appeals is that she often wrote from a queer perspective. Her vampire fiction is intellectual, brooding, and deeply thought-provoking while remaining accessible to a broad audience. Her Vampire Chronicles are riddled with homoerotic content and androgynous characters that appear human yet are always otherworldly. Her vampires transcend polarized sexuality, going […]
LORD BYRON was considered by many to be “Mad, bad, and dangerous to know!” He was an unapologetic sensualist who bedded men and women alike. Byron was a poet, a rogue, and an atheist with sexual appetites he proudly shared publicly. He also created rumours to inspire notoriety and fame—or perhaps infamy? The Poet and […]
