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Reader Poll: Who is Your Favorite LGBTQ+ Non-Superhero Character?

By , , , and | June 29th, 2018
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This week has been crazy rough across America, especially as the Supreme Court seems to be losing its goddamn mind.

It’s also the close of Pride Month, that time to celebrate inclusivity and diversity in identity.

Consider: Just forty years ago, Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay politicians and proud advocate for queerness, was gunned down in his office. Just thirty years ago, the AIDs epidemic swept through the community, killing hundreds of thousands of people while the government did nothing. Just twenty years ago, Matthew Shepard was tortured and crucified in Wyoming. Just this year, the Supreme Court made it okay for religion to discriminate against gay people again. Just this year, the President of the United States tried to ban all trans people from the military before making it so they wouldn’t have access to health care.

But queer people have never been complacent. Colorado’s Amendment 2 was eventually struck down, that law which openly discriminated against queer people. Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was repealed, the procedure preventing queer people from openly serving in the military, mostly used to dismiss women who rebuffed the sexual advances from their superior officers. And, in Obergefell v. Hodges same-sex couples were finally granted the right to marry each other and, in turn, have access to all the benefits marriage grants in our society. All of these were hard fought uphill battles, achieved by an enormous outcry of support and demonstration from Americans of all creeds, ethnicities, identities, and backgrounds.

It’s important to see queer people in a wide variety of stories, across genre and medium and whatnot. Not only does it help others empathize with people who may identify differently than themselves, but it also gives queer people a chance to see themselves, to know they’re not alone. Stories help people come to terms with their identity.

The list below is by no means exhaustive. Once you vote here please let us know other characters who have meant a lot to you in the comments. Let us know what our biggest, most egregious misses were.

Gay or straight, trans or non-binary, asexual or just a free ass motherfucker, no matter where we fall on the rainbow, we’re all here together.

And now let’s all go watch the new season of Queer Eye.


Who is your favorite LGBTQ+ non-superhero character?

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Kevin Keller from “Archie”0%
Wallace Wells from “Scott Pilgrim”0%
Kim and Kim of “Kim and Kim”0%
Willow from “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”0%
Snagglepuss from “Exit Stage Left”0%
The Lumberjanes from “Lumberjanes”0%
Cassandra from “The Wicked + The Divine”0%
Emma and Clementine from “Blue is the Warmest Color”0%
Ymir from “Attack on Titan”0%
Aaron from “The Walking Dead”0%
Tank Girl from “Tank Girl”0%
Cassie Hack from “Hack/Slash”0%
Francine and Katchoo from “Strangers in Paradise”0%
Maggie and Hopey. from “Locas”0%
Chromedome from “Transformers”0%
Petrichor from “Preacher”0%
Julie from “Moonstruck”0%
Kanga from “Kaptara”0%
Daisy from “Giant Days”0%
Kate from “Shutter”0%



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Brian Salvatore

Brian Salvatore is an editor, podcaster, reviewer, writer at large, and general task master at Multiversity. When not writing, he can be found playing music, hanging out with his kids, or playing music with his kids. He also has a dog named Lola, a rowboat, and once met Jimmy Carter. Feel free to email him about good beer, the New York Mets, or the best way to make Chicken Parmagiana (add a thin slice of prosciutto under the cheese).

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Matthew Garcia

Matt hails from Colorado. He can be found on Twitter as @MattSG.

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Kate Kosturski

Kate Kosturski is your Multiversity social media manager, a librarian by day and a comics geek...well, by day too (and by night). Kate's writing has also been featured at PanelxPanel, Women Write About Comics, and Geeks OUT. She spends her free time spending too much money on Funko POP figures and LEGO, playing with yarn, and rooting for the hapless New York Mets. Follow her on Twitter at @librarian_kate.

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Matt Lune

Born and raised in Birmingham, England, when Matt's not reading comics he's writing about them and hosting podcasts about them. From reading The Beano and The Dandy as a child, he first discovered American comics with Marvel's Heroes Reborn and, despite that questionable start, still fell in love and has never looked back. You can find him on Twitter @MattLune

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Christopher Chiu-Tabet

Chris is the news manager of Multiversity Comics. A writer from London on the autistic spectrum, he enjoys tweeting and blogging on Medium about his favourite films, TV shows, books, music, and games, plus history and religion. He is Lebanese/Chinese, although he can't speak Cantonese or Arabic.

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