Comics Corner – A Good Week for Gay Superheroes
Sometimes, the comics publishing world goes weeks without any notable developments for LGBTQ+ characters – or readers. Others, there’s a…
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Marvel comics to introduce gay Captain America during Pride month
Captain America is here, and he’s queer! Last week, Marvel announced that, in celebration of Captain America’s 80th anniversary and…
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Comics Corner – Infinite Frontier establishes DC’s gay past and queer future
In the DC Universe, the only constant is change. The main continuity of the superhero publisher has been rebooted no…
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Comics Corner – Let ‘Magical Boy’ cast a spell on you
Anyone who’s read even a modicum of manga or seen an iota of anime will be familiar with the concept…
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Comics Corner – Meet The Miracles
The Pride and Glitter Vipers creator Joe Glass is back to talk about his latest comic project, The Miracles –…
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Comics Corner – ‘DC Love is a Battlefield’ is particularly queer
Holiday specials in comics have quite the lineage, dating back to the 1940s, the ‘Golden Age of Comics’. In recent…
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Comics Corner – ‘Getting It Together’ is a raw, real ‘Friends’ for the 21st Century
In the 1990s, one sitcom dominated the airwaves – because streaming media hadn’t arrived yet – and came to define…
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Comics Corner – All the LGBTQ+ Comics contending for the GLAAD Media Awards 2021
The nominees for the 32nd GLAAD Media Awards have been announced, and the comic book slate shows the growing diversity…
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Comics Corner — New year, new queer!
2020 wasn’t good for much, but one area that has seen an improvement over the last twelve months has been…
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Comics Corner – Cheater Code takes gay erotica to a new level
[Content note: this week’s column openly discusses sex and erotica. However, all images are non-explicit, and broadly safe for work.]…
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Comics Corner – Star-Lord is bisexual, but don’t expect it to matter outside of the comics
In recent weeks, you may have noticed that the mainstream media latched onto the news that Star-Lord, leader of the…
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Comics Corner – Political Power: Pete Buttigieg explores the line between sexuality and service
Something different for Comics Corner this week, as we delve into the world of biographical comics. It’s somewhat of a…
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Comics Corner – Assassin’s Creed: Origins Special Edition Review
With Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla riding high in gamers’ minds, it’s a perfect time to explore the wider franchise of valorous…
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Embrace Celestial Bodies – an LGBT+ Body Positive Zine
We’re all for body positivity here at Bear World Magazine, and the Celestial Bodies zine from Mike Hunt seems to…
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Comics Corner – That time Judge Dredd was gay (kinda)
Judge Dredd is an icon of British comics, a stalwart fixture of legendary sci-fi anthology 2000AD since its second issue,…
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Comics Corner – Wandering Son is a touching reminder that trans kids exist
Manga and anime don’t have terribly good reputations for how they represent sex, sexuality, or LGBTQ+ people. Both forms of…
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Comics Corner – The Backstagers needs to stage a comeback
If your school was – or is, younglings – fortunate enough to have a theatre club, you’ll know it’s generally…
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Comics Corner – Life is Strange: Partners in Time #1 review
The Life Is Strange series has been one of gaming’s best examples of LGBTQ+ representation in recent years – even…
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Comics Corner – Track down Lumberjanes before its TV debut
Get excited, campers – the hit all-ages, LGBTQ+ inclusive comic Lumberjanes is now in development as an animated series. You…
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Comics Corner – My Brother’s Husband is gay manga at its heartfelt best
Family dynamics can be complicated for LGBTQ+ people – but in My Brother’s Husband, a culture clash gets thrown into…
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