"For 2012 in comics, it was really incredible, but it was also a beginning," Jarret said. "We're trying to address the sense that if you are a gay geek, you are not doubly doomed, you are doubly awesome," Jarrett said.įor older gay comic-book readers, the gay-centric comic-book plot lines of 2012 were an important step towards mainstream acceptance. The perceived geekiness of comic book culture can mark readers out as somehow odd - and for young gay people coming to terms with a sexual preference that goes against the mainstream, that can be yet another thing that identifies them as different. "I think any large industry responds more slowly than the culture it feeds, so I think that the prevailing attitude in society are leading popular culture in that direction, towards acceptance, towards embracing all members of their community," said Jono Jarrett, the co-founder of Geeks Out, a group that celebrates the overlap between geek and LGBTQ culture.
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