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What’s going on in the land of comics?

DC comics announced this week that one of it’s famous characters, long presumed to like women, would come out of the closet.

Not to be outdone, Marvel comics, which has had a fabulous super-hero since Canadian superhero Northstar came out in 1992, announced Northstar would marry his long termer, Kyle Jinadu in an upcoming Astonishing X-Men edition.

Serious question: is it as uncool to read comic books in the gay dating world as it is in the straight one?

Slightly, and weirdly, related, Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons has come firmly out of the closet, announcing he’s gay, he’s been in a committed relationship with partner Todd Spiewak for ten years, and their getting married.

This is of course shocking news to Coopers Texas, religious, republican TV mother, but nobody else. Besides having lived openly with Spiewak for a number of years, and thanking him at his Emmy acceptance speech, Parsons rather looks the part. It is a revelation more along the lines of Liberace being gay than Rock Hudson.

If John Travolta is really in the closet as rumour and lawsuits suggest, it’s kitty-bar the door time. While the first two plaintiffs in lawsuits against Travolta claiming he made unwanted sexual advances whilst having a massage from male masseuses, there are at least two more suits pending.

Meanwhile, Travolta’s sexuality is all over the tabloid front pages, with suggestions of family breakdown in the face of numerous claims of infidelity with other men.

If Travolta is gay, he’s now out whether he likes it or not. If he isn’t gay, he may never be able to put the rumours to rest now.

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