Quote Originally Posted by suzene
assuming you aren't instantly shuttled off to Limbo before the fundies catch wind of you.
I seem to remember reading the letters page of - I think - Sandman quite a few years back and someone from a fundementalist group (love the the term 'fundies' btw!) had written in saying how shocked they were that there were gay characters in the book and that they would never buy another comic-book from DC/Vertigo again and they were urging all their members to do the same. In the next few issues there were various letters commenting on this initial letter stating that they felt it was strange that someone with such views would even be buying Sandman to start with!

At the end of the day, the main problem is not that the readership of comic-books are homophobic but that society as a whole is and contains groups with such negative ideas on homosexuality (who are able to get their voices and 'concerns' heard) that is it hard to have gay characters in not only comic-books, but also TV shows, movies etc.