I am so excited that there have recently been a few comics lately that have added some main gay characters! There is now The Green Lantern, North Star, and possibly the new Spiderman in the future. I am a little envious of all the gay kids growing up today that have so many fictional characters to relate and look up to. On tv they have Glee and Modern Family, and soon the new show The New Normal. Now they have Super Heroes!
I really look forward to the day when there is a main character in a Hollywood action, fantasy, or scifi movie that is gay. Gay people, or at least this gay dude, want to be able to have adventure, or have super powers, or save the hot guy in distress all while saving the world. We can be strong and courageous too, we don't just like to make things pretty (but our costumes better be fierce!).
There really is nothing like that out there though. It's always just a straight male lead saving the world, or going on adventures. Sometimes it's a woman, but unfortunately they don't do as well in ticket sales and so they don't get made as often. That's probably why no one will touch a gay lead action/adventure, alien punching, cowboy roping, super power wielding movie, which is really unfortunate. When you do try and search for strictly gay comics they are usually pretty inappropriate, and when it comes to gay literature it's either just as inappropriate or it's really badly written (my experience). Watching gay movies you either get drama or comedy, and sometimes I like to watch something more exciting. I am sure that companies like TLA could produce an action/adventure something-or-other that would be interesting and fun to watch. The acting will probably be shit, but no one watches an action movie for the acting.
What do you guys think?
