Gay Comics History

A History of LGBT Characters and Themes in Comics

July 11, 2012

Wonder Woman

Gay Comics History

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by Tara Block 1

Wonder Woman

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.

5 / 20

by Tara Block 1

Wonder Woman

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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1 Comment

stephaniepoli 44 weeks 2 days

Once I read a very interesting essay about how The Smurfs was a model for communist society. It had some very compelling arguments. It makes me wonder about the writers, sneaking their view points into a children's cartoon.