Milan fashion houses Fendi, Emporio Armani and Dolce&Gabbana sought to invoke joy with collections that beckoned a return to leisure and some notes of nostalgia. That makes linen an easy sell, but less so for the leather and even fur making appearances on Milan's Spring-Summer 2023 runways. Temperatures in Milan were unusually high and the fashion crowd scooted from show to show with the thermometer topping 34 C (93 F) and forecast to keep getting hotter in the coming days. These are the elements of next year's summer wardrobe emerging from the second day Saturday of Milan Fashion Week menswear previews. Or are they just being coy? The Duo gives "SNL" a shot of the true gay humor it has always lacked - despite the show's many tittering sketches over the years in which men have kissed men on the lips for hetero laughs.MILAN - Denim, fringe and chunky rubber sliders. While the criminal masterminds gossip among themselves about whether Ace and Gary are, you know, Ace and Gary seem oblivious to their own sexual orientation. They end up entwined in suggestive homoerotic positions whenever they struggle to escape from the bondage gizmos of their evil nemeses. They drive a car that looks like a gigantic penis. (Before joining "SNL," the cartoon appeared on ABC in prime time as part of Dana Carvey's censor-taunting - and swiftly yanked - 1996 variety show.) The Duo, Ace and Gary, wear skin-tight pec- and thigh-defining leotards with bulging yellow codpieces. Sedelmaier's brilliant, hilarious send-up of the coded gayness of Batman and Robin is so triumphantly in-your-face queer, it's a wonder it ever made it to network TV. In her article at, Joyce Millman talks about the "Ambiguously Gay Duo" sketch on Saturday Night Live: Want to see some hot, erotic, gay superheroes? Check out this site: There are also several references to other, non-superhero comic books with gay or gender-bending characters, as well as Transvestite and Transsexual superheroes and even BDSM comics. The site, created by Todd VerBeek, has a particularly thorough and interesting page dedicated to Lesbian, Gay, and Bi (LGB) comics, as well as an information page on LGB Super-Heroes, many from Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Things are starting to change, however, as more gay heroes have emerged over the past few years.īeek's Books is an online collection of reviews of various types of comics (comic books, comix, and graphic novels). Sometimes their orientation is only hinted at. There are quite a number of gay superheroes in comic books, actually, but only a few are published by major companies like DC Comics or Marvel Comics the other 'big publishers' are more likely to feature these characters as members of the supporting cast for example, as a friend of the hero. Some viewers may have wondered, 'Are there any gay superheroes in real life comics?' Of course there are! And no, we're not just talking about Ace and Gary, the 'Ambiguously Gay Duo' from Saturday Night Live. Someone must take his place as the world's preeminent gay superhero." Had he not been censored and constrained by his cowardly distributors, I'm certain the Captain would have proudly declared his gay identity to the world. Captain Astro was the proudest, gayest, most fabulous superhero to ever grace the comic book shelves with his presence.
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