Without a doubt, one of the most influential characters in fiction is Wonder Woman from DC Comics. Diana from Themyscira has inspired generations of fans to live as their best and most honest selves, as a fierce warrior who exemplifies a better path for humanity. Wonder Woman's values as a Golden Age superhero continue to remain relevant in today's times, especially during LGBTQIA Pride Month this year.
For many LGBTQIA comics fans, Wonder Woman is an inspiring character because she fearlessly lives as her authentic self and has challenged gender norms since her inception. She is unapologetic in her fight for the oppressed, while still believing that humanity can be better than its worst impulses. As such, her perspective has been important for many LGBTQIA people, as her indefatigable spirit and commitment to helping others resembles the trajectory that queer people have been on to secure basic civil rights and a better world for everyone.
Related: Wonder Woman's Lynda Carter Embraces the Hero's Status as a Queer Icon
As the entirety of her comics history can attest to, Wonder Woman is a deeply queer character, a fact that actress Lynda Carter honored on Twitter for Pride Month. But as some of the homophobic and transphobic responses to Carter's tweet show, Diana's bisexuality seems to ignored in certain perceptions of the character. However, in contrast to other characters in comics, whose queerness was coded and subtly alluded to before the character was able to come out officially, Wonder Woman's queerness has been a recurrent element of her character since her debut.
I didn't write Wonder Woman, but if you want to argue that she is somehow not a queer or trans icon, then you're not paying attention. Every time
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