outrage over gay cowboy

Kevin Robert Dean qualiall at union.org.za
Mon Dec 16 12:57:50 PST 2002


On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:21:26 -0600

J Cullen <jcullen at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee has been saying in
> interviews after the release of the Spiderman movie that
> he put a gay soldier in a Marvel Comics back in the '70s.
> I can't remember the title but it was about a bunch of
> commandos, one of whom supposedly was a foppish guy whom
> Lee said obviously was pretty clearly stereotypically
> gay.

And therein lies the rub. While the AFA is pretty dumb, isn't it equally offensive to portray a "stereotypically gay" character?

If I, as a straight man, were to write about a "gay cowboy", wouldn't it be nothing more that my own alienated picture of what a gay person was? Wouldn't this still be feeding into stereotyping?

It sounds more like "I come not to praise homosexulaity, but to mock it" --- Sent from UnionMail Service [http://mail.union.org.za]



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