I would say "I can't even believe I have to say this" but this is pretty par for the course with the LGBT activist community.
According to OUT Magazine, Superman is a "gay icon." In an article released Thursday, the LGBT-focused outlet discussed the dust-up around the latest Superman movie, directed by James Gunn. The film became something of a heated topic after it was reported that Gunn made the film as an immigrant story, prompting conservative media to fire back at him.
As it turns out, Gunn was actually misquoted by Variety, and Gunn made it clear that this was a film for everyone. Still, the leftist media, including OUT, decided to jump into the fight with their own commentary, prompting OUT to declare that Superman is, in fact, a gay icon:
Conservatives are angry enough hearing the fact that Superman was not born in the U.S.A., so what will they think when they realize that the character is also a gay allegory?
OUT then proceeds to list four reasons why, including:
- Superman lives a double life as Clark Kent, which they say is a clear allegory for someone being in the closet.
- He's also different, which automatically makes someone queer, naturally.
- He's hypermasculine, and apparently that's for the gays?
- His costume is queer coded because it's spandex and colorful, like something you'd see at a pride parade.
I don't think I have to tell you Superman is not a gay icon. Even people who don't know much about the superhero don't need to be told that queerness is not a quality of the Man of Steel, and never has been. There is, of course, one comic creator who decided to try to make Superman's son gay, and that did not work out.
Read: DC Comics Canceling Gay Superman's Solo Run After Failure to Sell
As That Park Place noted in their own response to this claim:
Superman was never designed as a gay allegory. He was created in 1938 by two Jewish immigrants, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, as a fantasy of hope during the Great Depression. A hero who stood for truth, justice, and — yes — the American way. He’s a man who chooses to do good not because of who he is, but because of what he believes. He’s a symbol of timeless morality and personal responsibility — not modern identity politics.
And this is absolutely correct.
The thing is, when your entire identity rests on forcing your identity on everyone else, everything becomes identity politics. It's all you see. You can notice a deer in the woods minding its own business, and you'll find a way to turn it into an allegory for your obsession.
But like many radical leftist groups, the LGBT activist community can't sell their ideas and lifestyle by itself. They have to package and ship it with something that people already like. In this way, they attempt to normalize their lifestyle for everyone else, especially children, who grow up with queerness being an everyday occurrence... or so that's the plan.
Hollywood is a very easy place to attach queerness to anything, and many producers and directors are almost more than happy to do so. As I recently wrote, they attempted to shove queerness into children's faces through the latest Pixar movie, Elio, but Disney execs stepped in and stripped it of allusions to queerness.
The left does the same thing with other ideas, like communism and climate alarmism.
In the case of Superman, the strategy is to start the narrative, then get other news outlets on board to begin generating something of a mental connection of queerness to the character. Then, over time, Superman and the queer community just become related while being unrelated, until one day someone comes along and cements the connection in a show, movie, or comic.
Next thing you know, "truth, justice, and the American way" takes a back seat to "here, queer, and get used to it."
The more characters they can do this to, the more saturated pop-culture becomes with LGBT-adjacency and soon, you can't escape it. You might get sick of it, but again, the hope is that your children and their children see this as absolutely normal, every day stuff.
They can't procreate, so they have to recruit.
Regardless, it doesn't change the fact that Superman isn't a part of the LGBT community, try as they might to make him so.
