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“The Dilemma” news roundup

October 15, 2010
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“The Dilemma” news roundup

(credit: Google) There has been a huge dust-up surrounding the movie The Dilemma, directed by Ron Howard and starring Vince Vaughn. Here’s the latest thus far: Vince Vaughn has released a statement about the perjorative comment his character makes in the movie, (one of his character’s “jokes” in the film starts with “Electric cars...

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Animated Sexuality: LGBT animated characters

October 11, 2010
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Animated Sexuality: LGBT animated characters

In honor of today being the Human Rights Campaign’s Come Out For Equality Day, I thought I’d compile a list of some prominent LGBT characters in animation. Like all of these animated race/gender lists, they are certainly not thorough in the sense that every character that fits the bill is listed, but this gives...

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“The Dilemma”‘s dilemma

October 9, 2010
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“The Dilemma”‘s dilemma

Earlier this week, Universal removed a controversial section from the trailer of the comedy The Dilemma, which played the word “gay” for laughs. In the beginning of the trailer, actor Vince Vaughn’s character is shown saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, electric cars are gay.” GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance against Defamation, spoke out, saying the...

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Animated Gender: “Legion of Superheroes” maturely portrays a gay character

October 5, 2010
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Animated Gender: “Legion of Superheroes” maturely portrays a gay character

There are a lot of posts I’ve been mulling over for a few weeks, one of them being a list of homosexual characters portrayed in cartoons. Brainiac 5 from Legion of Superheroes would be one of those characters on the list. Like most comic-to-cartoon characters that keep their comic-book roots, Brainiac is portrayed as...

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Finally, a review of “Veronica #202″

September 7, 2010
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Finally, a review of “Veronica #202″

It seems like I’ve been talking about this forever! For months! What with the first introduction of Kevin, my analysis of sexuality and how it relates to Archie Comics, tackling how to write Jughead in this post-openly-gay Archie world, even a preview of my review! And now it’s finally here! What can I say...

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“Veronica #202″: First reactions

September 3, 2010
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“Veronica #202″: First reactions

As much as I’ve talked about Kevin Keller and Veronica #202, it would be remiss of me to wait a long time before I, at least, gave my first reactions to the issue. Firstly, let me state that I haven’t gotten a physical copy of the book yet; I’ve had to read most of...

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