It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s ‘A Gay Icon’: Magazine On Superman

Gay magazine ‘Out’ is claiming that the character of Superman is not just an “immigrant,” but he is “also a gay icon” and “always has been.”

The magazine floated its wild claims in an editorial on Thursday just ahead of the world-wide debut of James Gunn’s Superman feature film.

Gunn stirred controversy this month by not only insisting that his Superman character is an “immigrant,” but he also told whose who don’t like the left-wing political message in his movie to go get screwed.

Superman, though, has never necessarily been portrayed as an “immigrant” per se. In the comics, the character has always identified himself more as a citizen of earth — and in past years, a citizen of the United States. After all, he left his alien home planet as an infant, grew up in Smallville in the U.S.A., and only knew about his home from the computer files his parents sent with him to earth. He has far more affinity for humans than for Kryptonians.

But on top of Gunn’s re-imagining of Superman’s ethos as an “immigrant story,” now Out magazine is taking even more of the masculine stuffing out of the Man of Steel and proclaiming that he is a “gay icon.”