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#TBT: Comically Gay
Is it just us? Because these vintage comics seem super that way.
 Christopher Harrity
          
          Mar 20, 2014
          
        
Christopher Harrity
Christopher Harrity is the Manager of Online Production for Here Media, parent company to The Advocate and Out. He enjoys assembling online features on artists and photographers, and you can often find him poring over the mouldering archives of the magazines.
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As children, many of us were convinced that the comic books we treasured, and the superheros we worshipped were sending secret messages to us that only we could understand. Herewith, a few examples for Throw Back Thursday.
The Covers
Disciplinary Action
The Not-so-Ambiguously Gay Duo
Teenage Hormones
Mixed Messages
Bondage in Paradise
QUEST-ioning
 

        
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While countries once targeted by American evangelical activism begin dismantling anti-LGBTQ+ laws, the United States is building new systems of restriction and surveillance, writes Josh Ackley.

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