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You may also like Well, lookie here! I plug the search term "Fantastic Four" into Facebook and look what comes up! I'm going to have to save and forward this one. I actually noted the gay reference in Fantastic Four when it was first released inbut I had no idea at the time that it was the first reference to gay life or identity in a mainstream super-hero comics.

It was, however, the first one that I noticed, and I mentioned this to my friends at The Gay League www. It may have turned up on their former Website because of my mention. You should be able to contact him through the site. Nice write-up. On a total tangent, I've always been a great fan of Mary Tyler Moore, a series into which people also read gay themes in relation to family; i.

Here's a link to the scan of the panel s in question from FF AFAIK, it is the first use of "gay" to mean homosexual. I read so much of myself in this post and we're in a good place now too - I should mr fantastic gay, I'm in a good place. Post a Comment. Kleefeld on Comics.

The Fantastic Four was my mr fantastic gay permanent hook into comics. It was a great book, filled with everything that I was looking for in my entertainment. There was one thing, though, that I don't want to say "puzzled" but it never seemed to sit quite right with me.

When people talked about the essence of the Fantastic Four, they always said it boiled down to "family. Which the Fantastic Four clearly were not. People would use the Thing and Human Torch as euphemisms for the kids, but that always seemed a bit of stretch for me. Sure, they acted juvenile on occasion but I saw them as adults who just weren't as serious as Mr.

I looked at the relationships there as they were presented.

Reed Richards *and* Victor von Doom are bisexual.

Reed and Sue were married. Johnny was Sue's brother, but had no real relationship to Reed. And Ben was just a friend of everybody's. And then you had these orbiting friends who stopped in frequently like Alicia Masters and Wyatt Wingfoot and Crystal, who weren't actually related to anybody, but everybody knew and liked.

What that did for me, back in the day, was re-define "family. It didn't have anything to do with blood relationships or marriage vows. Family was the people you loved and spent the majority of your time with. The notion of a stereotypical nuclear family didn't make sense in the context I was seeing it.