{"id":74640,"date":"2021-10-18T00:16:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T07:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=74640"},"modified":"2021-10-18T00:16:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T07:16:14","slug":"superman-comes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/10\/18\/superman-comes-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman Comes Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does every superhero have to have homosexual tendencies?&nbsp; Not that I\u2019m complaining.&nbsp; Sure, they\u2019ve got perfect, rippling bodies that they exhibit in form-fitting spandex, <em>Lycra<\/em>, or some other kind of fishnet stocking.&nbsp; But I\u2019m sure some straight guys could fall into that category \u2013 although none immediately spring to mind.&nbsp; The latest superhero joining our ranks is <strong>Superman<\/strong>.&nbsp; No, not the classic Superman.&nbsp; We\u2019re talking about <strong>Jon Kent<\/strong>, the son of <strong>Clark Kent <\/strong>and <strong>Lois Lane<\/strong>.&nbsp; Funny, I always thought he was <strong>Superboy <\/strong>\u2013 but I suppose that\u2019s a moniker that doesn\u2019t have a long shelf life.&nbsp; Here\u2019s what <em>DC Comics <\/em>said: \u201cFollowing a scene where Superman mentally and physically burns out from trying to save everyone he can, <strong>Jay <\/strong>is there to care for the <em>Man of Steel<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp; Jay is <strong>Jay Nakamura<\/strong>, a longtime friend of the superlad.&nbsp; The twosome share a kiss next month.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone is applauding this news.&nbsp; <strong>Dean Cain<\/strong>, who played <em>Superman <\/em>in the \u201890s, happened to be on <strong><em>Fox &amp; Friends<\/em><\/strong> when the story broke.&nbsp; \u201cThey said it\u2019s a bold new direction.&nbsp; I say they\u2019re bandwagoning.\u201d&nbsp; He continued, \u201cIf they had done this 20 years ago, perhaps that would have been bold or brave.&nbsp; But brave would be having him fight for the rights of gay people in Iran where they\u2019ll throw you off a building for the offense of being gay.\u201d&nbsp; While I\u2019m sympathetic to oppressed people, I don\u2019t know if they even have comic books in Iran.&nbsp; Certainly not comic books with gay superheroes!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does every superhero have to have homosexual tendencies?&nbsp; Not that I\u2019m complaining.&nbsp; Sure, they\u2019ve got perfect, rippling bodies that they exhibit in form-fitting spandex, Lycra, or some other kind of fishnet stocking.&nbsp; But I\u2019m sure some straight guys could fall into that category \u2013 although none immediately spring to mind.&nbsp; The latest superhero joining our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74641,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74640\/revisions\/74641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}