Last year I blogged about Batwoman becoming a lesbian. Unfortunately, the project’s been derailed. From Feministing:
Lesbian batwoman is no more
“Remember how the new Batwoman was going to be a lesbian? Well, she’s not.
When it comes to portraying characters as gay in comics, Devin Grayson admits the amount of editorial latitude she’s given depends upon the legacy of the character in question. “The Powers That Be are pretty good these days about letting you choose to make a character of your own design homosexual or bisexual, but the closer you get to an established character, the harder it becomes,” Grayson said.
…In fact, Grayson was eight months into the development of the proposed “Batwoman” title when she found out from a newspaper article that the project was dead, and to this day, the writer has not received so much as a phone call from upper editorial on the matter. “That reversal really surprised and disappointed me,” Grayson admitted.”
Damn. I thought a lesbian Batwoman would have been pretty cool.
Posted by Vixen as Musings at 11:16 PM CDT