#lgbtq dc

[nancylou444]

Bonus Canon LGBTQ+ Character of the Day

John Constantine (Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow)

[beauty-funny-trippy]

Bishop asks Trump to show mercy to LGBTQ people and migrants He was simply asked to show mercy toward our marginalized groups of people. Yet being asked to treat vulnerable groups of men, women and children with some small amount of basic human decency made these MAGA Republicans visibly uncomfortable. To be clear, he wasn't asked to support these groups, or even show them a little kindness. He was simply asked to please treat them like human beings — to not single them out and treat them like subhuman "animals," as Trump has called them. There is something deeply and truly wrong with someone who views acting with even just a bare minimum of human decency is asking too much of them — as if things like Honor, Integrity and Compassion are repugnant to their very soul.

[incorrectbatfam]

You're literally gay??? And it's pride month??? And Israel's our only safe haven in that region???

There's no pride in genocide

[idknwhatputhere]

Butch4Butch lesbians save me!!

[thevvitchbitch]

[alienbycomics]

Comic where Superman teaches Batman about Kryptonian trans healthcare

[shyjusticewarrior]

Damian Living On Tim's Murder Boat AU: Part 2 Electric Boogaloo

Jason: *enters, wearing shades and coffees in hand* Hey Timmy, I'm having a mental break-

[Kitchen is on fire, Damian and Tim are screaming]

Jason: ... You seem busy, I'll come back later. *leaves*

Bernard: So why'd your mom pick "Head" as her fake surname?

Damian: Presumably because my grandfather, her father, was called the demon's head.

Bernard: Her name when estranged from her dad had a reference to him? Metal as hell, maybe I should do that.

Damian: You're estranged from your father?

Bernard: Both my parents. They don't really... approve of me dating Tim.

Damian: While I agree you're above Drake, there are worse men you could date.

Bernard: That's the thing. They, uh, don't like that he's a guy.

Damian: ... I see. *unsheathes sword* And where do they live again?

Bernard: I appreciate the thought, really, but please don't.

[thebat-musicman]

god i love batman

[f0xxym0r0n]

In a world rampant and run by Hitlers, Musks, and Trumps - Be a Joker.

[comicswomen]

Nat's hair being the lesbian pride flag

Natasha Irons/Steel | DC Pride (2024) "Steeling Time"

[nancylou444]

Bonus Canon LGBTQ+ Character of the Day

Sara Lance (Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow)

[ladyadaine]

From the creators of Science Gays

Comes Crime Lesbians

[nthomasartist]

Dick Grayson - Nightwing

I been feeling like doing some smaller, quicker, portrait pieces recently!

Batgirl  | Robin | Red Hood

Twitter

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ Disabled Characters Showdown Quarterfinals Poll 1

Vs.

Please be civil in the notes. We will block people if we feel it is necessary. A character being canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included. This is not a competition of who is better representation.

Check out the other polls in the quarterfinals here.

Edit: This is a two vs. one because they tied (by our defenition) back in round 4 and moved on together.

Harrier ‘Harry’ du Bois-Disco Elysium

Qualifications:

Bisexual. Struggles with addiction, post-polio syndrome, multiple kinds of mental illness, and whatever else he's accrued by living in a city with no accessible healthcare.

Propaganda:

You know who he is. Vote for him.

Kim Kitsuragi-Disco Elysium

Qualifications:

Visually impaired

Propaganda:

I dunno man. He's Kim Kitsuragi. There's nothing I can say about him that hasn't already been said. He's quiet and reserved and uncomfortable with emotions. He's a self-proclaimed Torque Dork who loves his car like a child. He listens to heavy metal music. He's a centrist. He's a homosexual. He's consistently given shit by everyone around him for his race, his sexuality, and his disability, and he's taught himself to respond to it with cold professionalism. He dresses in historical communist pilot cosplay. I love him with my entire heart.

Yang Xiao Long-RWBY

Qualifications:

She is canonically wlw (has been for years but specifically kissed and got together with her now girlfriend in the latest season) and uses a prosthetic arm and has been shown to struggle with PTSD due to the traumatic nature of losing it during the show.

Canonically had her right arm chopped off, uses a prosthetic. Has PTSD. Is canonically in a WLW relationship.

She has a canon girlfriend and canonically has a prosthetic arm and PTSD

She's canonically sapphic (part of a recently canonised wlw slowburn relationship) and is an amputee (due to events from the 3rd season finale) who wears a robotic prosthetic. She also suffers from PTSD which is explored in the show

Propaganda:

I will keep on submitting Yang to relevant brackets until I die. RWBY has plenty of strengths and weaknesses with writing, especially Yang's recovery arc, but instead of forcing her to push past her trauma and enter the battlefield immediately, we see her struggle with it, take time to process, and not be pushed into repression and when she chooses to wear her prosthetic, chooses to train to ready herself, and chooses to seek out her family and save lives, she isn't perfectly healed, as no one is. The show depicts her having flashbacks due to sudden loud noise, shaking hand the first few times she has to fight for her safety instead of training with her dad, and snapping at friends when they bring up Blake, the person she lost her arm trying to save (who, near immediately after ran away due to feeling she was endangering those she loved, furthering Yang's already present abandonment issues.) It isn't done perfectly but the intentions and general message sent are extremely positive and honest. She struggles less as the show progresses, and there are opportunities to consider herself less for being disabled or "become whole again" but she explicitly refutes these ideas and says that's she's better because of her failures and losses, and isn't any less whole. Her becoming disabled is also extremely tied to her being LGBT, because, as previously mentioned, she lost her arm protecting her then friend and partner, now girlfriend, directly after the villain who cut her arm off told her love interest that he would "destroy everything [she] love[s]. (Camera pans to Yang, he looks at her.) Starting with her." LIKE. He attacked her BECAUSE Blake cared for her so much and Yang ran to her defense blindly BECAUSE she loved Blake so much. When they reunite, they struggle with communication because Yang feels Blake is seeing her as weak, and through several things, mostly a climatic battle against the man who severed Yang's arm, they affirm each other as equals. I can go on but this is already too long. YANG SWEEP!!!!!

Yang lost her arm while protecting her best friend and future girlfriend from said girlfriend's abusive ex. Had a whole arc about learning to live with that loss and dealing with PTSD. Is totally devoted to and in love with Blake Belladonna and is just the sweetest but most badass character in the show.

She's one of the main characters, and just finished a 10 year slow burn romance. Plus, she has both physical and mental disabilities, but is never treated as lesser or incomplete.

Yang Xiao Long was one of the first examples of a sapphic character I ever saw in animated media with her character journey in the show being an iconic part of my teenage years and current young adulthood. The loss of her arm after a traumatic event in the show's 3rd volume was one of the big shockers of the show that nobody saw coming. Since then the show has done an amazing job in exploring both the mental and physical effects of her losing a limb, gaining a prosthetic arm and the recovery journey. Her character also has a major arc regarding handling her PTSD from both this and her past most notably in the 5th and 6th volume. Her character also has a slow-burn romance with her teammate and fellow main character Blake Belladonna which is one of my fave romances ever (it has everything: canon soulmates, friends to lovers, sunshine x grump,battle couple etc..) that has recently became CANON BABIEE!!! There are MULTIPLE characters in RWBY with various disabilities that are handled well in the narrative but i would say Yangs definitely the top FAVE!

[unfashionably-late-comics]

Bruce's google search history later that night: "What do you do when you realize all your coworkers are demi-gods and gorgeous?"

I headcanon that Bruce doesn't think about romantic relationships on his own so when he's called out, he's frightfully underprepared and has NO idea how to respond. This is in contrast to him being prepared with 18 contingency plans for an uprising of unconfirmed mole people.

[steph-the-4th-robin]

Day 1 of Characters That Are Definitely Queer but Comics Won’t Let Be:

Stephanie Brown