{"id":15357,"date":"2002-12-10T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-10T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/10\/marvel-comics-gay-gunslinger\/"},"modified":"2002-12-10T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-10T12:03:00","slug":"marvel-comics-gay-gunslinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/10\/marvel-comics-gay-gunslinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Comics&#8217; Gay Gunslinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/SHOWBIZ\/12\/09\/rawhide.kid.gay\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"new Rawhide Kid\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/rawhidekid.gif\" \/><\/a>According to CNN, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvel.com\/comics\/onsale\/onsale.htm?id=698\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;Marvel Comics<\/a> plans to break new ground in the comic book industry by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/SHOWBIZ\/12\/09\/rawhide.kid.gay\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">introducing the first openly gay title character in a comic book.&rdquo;<\/a>  In today&rsquo;s <acronym title=\"Politically Correct\">PC<\/acronym> world, I probably shouldn&rsquo;t make fun of this, but I can&rsquo;t resist.  For the record, I have nothing against people living their lives however they want to, but this borders on the absurd: &ldquo;In a bubble in the first edition of the series, Rawhide Kid comments about the Lone Ranger: &lsquo;I think that mask and the powder blue outfit are fantastic. I can certainly see why the Indian follows him around.&rsquo;&rdquo;  Also, is it just me, or does this guy remind you of one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quicktimeflix.net\/agd\/\" target=\"_blank\"><acronym title=\"Saturday Night Live\">SNL<\/acronym>&rsquo;s Ambiguously Gay Duo<\/a>?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90034268?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, &ldquo;Marvel Comics plans to break new ground in the comic book industry by introducing the first openly gay title character in a comic book.&rdquo; In today&rsquo;s PC world, I probably shouldn&rsquo;t make fun of this, but I can&rsquo;t resist. For the record, I have nothing against people living their lives however they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/10\/marvel-comics-gay-gunslinger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marvel Comics&#8217; Gay Gunslinger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}