While DC Comics superheroine Wonder Woman isn't gay, her feminist qualities were too much for sexist men of the '40s and '50s when she first lassoed her way onto comic-book pages. Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham said in his 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent that Wonder Woman's strength and independence meant she must be a lesbian.
While DC Comics superheroine Wonder Woman isn't gay, her feminist qualities were too much for sexist men of the '40s and '50s when she first lassoed her way onto comic-book pages. Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham said in his 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent that Wonder Woman's strength and independence meant she must be a lesbian.
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