http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress Have a beverage and stay a while, won't you? Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:33:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/12/30/new-yorks-gay-night-life/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/12/30/new-yorks-gay-night-life/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:51:19 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=4584 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } One of the many books that I’ve borrowed from my local libraries is The Simon & Kirby Superheroes hardcover. Published in late 2010 by Titan, it’s a hefty, oversized, and handsomely printed behemoth, weighing at least 5 pounds, that collects over 450 pages of Simon & Kirby’s superhero lesser known comics from smaller publishers. Check [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/12/30/new-yorks-gay-night-life/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/01/28/the-art-instructor/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/01/28/the-art-instructor/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:46:36 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=3454 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } In volume one of the Batman Archives is the Batman story originally printed in Detective #41. It’s the third appearance of Dick Grayson and Robin who plays an important role in this untitled story. One night a homocidal maniac escapes from an asylum. Even before Arkham it seems Gotham had trouble keeping villains incarcerated. The [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/01/28/the-art-instructor/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/01/16/dudley-jones-crossdressing-villain/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/01/16/dudley-jones-crossdressing-villain/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:26:00 +0000 Joe http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=1953 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } On the subject of stereotypes in comics Jet Heer recently wrote a column titled “Mickey Mouse, Homophobe“. Heer presents several examples of gay stereotypes used in comic strips, of which the most famous character is Mickey Mouse in a strip from 1931. In a second post, Heer presents earlier evidence with a copy of a [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/01/16/dudley-jones-crossdressing-villain/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/11/24/sanjak/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/11/24/sanjak/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:11:01 +0000 Joe http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=1731 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } In an article titled “Coming Out in the Comic Strips“, David Applegate outlines two characters created for TERRY AND THE PIRATES by Milt Caniff. One of these two characters is named Sanjak, and she is a French Naval officer. In her first appearance in the Sunday comics of February 12, 1939, Sanjak is disguised as [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/11/24/sanjak/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/10/01/blue-snowman/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/10/01/blue-snowman/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:38:14 +0000 Joe http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=1201 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Contributed by Ronald Byrd School teacher Byrna Brilyant’s scientist father died while working on his invention of “blue snow,” a special form of precipitation that freezes everything it touches. This invention was intended to “serve humanity,” although precisely how seems rather vague. Thinking to put her father’s work to more profitable use, Byrna creates the [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/10/01/blue-snowman/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/10/01/dr-poison/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/10/01/dr-poison/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:31:52 +0000 Joe http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=1196 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Contributed by Ronald Byrd In 1942 Doctor Poison (AKA Princess Maru), who disguises her gender via a bulky hooded costume and mask, was the leader of a Nazi spy ring whose ultimate goal was to wreak havoc in the US Army by contaminating the army’s water with “reverso,” a drug that “confuses the brain centers…[making] [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/10/01/dr-poison/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/10/01/hypnota-the-great/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/10/01/hypnota-the-great/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:25:28 +0000 Joe http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=1192 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Contributed by Ronald Byrd A stage magician who conceals her gender via masculine costume and false facial hair, Hypnota (real name unknown) was accidentally shot in the head during the rehearsal of one of her act’s illusions. Experimental surgery saved her life, but it also released a “blue electric ray of dominance” from her “mid-brain,” [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/10/01/hypnota-the-great/feed/ 0