"Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman… and he has just announced to the world he is bisexual.
“The idea of replacing Clark Kent with another straight white savior felt like a missed opportunity,” Tom Taylor, who writes the series, said in an interview covered by the newspaper. He said a “new Superman had to have new fights — real world problems — that he could stand up to as one of the most powerful people in the world.”
The concept of a new all woke Man of Steel and or associated comic character(s) is not new.
As the NYT reports, Batman’s sidekick, Robin, recently acknowledged romantic feelings for a male friend (not Dick Grayson — who was Batman’s partner for over four decades —).
The issue of geo-politics has also been broached by the character when in 2011 DC decided Superman would no longer stand for the United States but would become a “citizen of the world.”
In “Action Comics” #900, the man who once stood for “truth, justice,
and the American way,” dropped the “American Way” part of his mandate by
renouncing his American citizenship because he was unhappy with (real
life, not comic book) U.S. foreign policy.From the "Really" File
Though Superman is not the first or last comic character to reveal a hitherto hidden sexual identity, comics experts claimed something particularly momentous about him making the announcement.
