Former Superman Dean Cain says Jonathan Kent coming out is ‘not brave’
- Jonathan Kent will be seen romancing Jay Nakamura in 'Superman: Son of Kal-El'
- Former Superman actor Dean Cain there was nothing 'bold or brave' about the queer relationship
- DC writer Tom Taylor said he wanted the new Superman to 'find himself'
Former Superman actor Dean Cain is not impressed with DC Comics’ decision to have the superhero come out as bisexual in its upcoming comic series.
The new superman Jonathan Kent will be seen in a romantic relationship with male friend Jay Nakamura in the fifth issue of ‘Superman: Son of Kal-El‘ which is set to hit the stands on November 9.
“They said it’s a bold new direction, I say they’re bandwagoning,” 55-year-old Cain told Fox & Friends on Tuesday. He said DC had not done something bold or brave as no one was shocked when Batman’s sidekick Robin recently came out as gay. “The new Captain America is gay. My daughter in [The CW series] Supergirl, where I played the father, was gay,” Cain said. Cain played the role of Clark Kent/Superman in the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
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A new Aquaman comic also stars a gay Black man who is positioned to become the title hero.
But Superman writer Tom Taylor insisted the relationship between Jonathan Kent and Jay Nakamura “was not a gimmick.”
Taylor said when he was offered this job, he thought, ‘Well, if we’re going to have a new Superman for the DC Universe, it feels like a missed opportunity to have another straight white savior.”
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“We didn’t want this to be ‘DC Comics creates new queer Superman,'” Taylor told news agency Reuters in an interview from Melbourne, sporting a T-shirt with a rainbow-striped Superman logo.
“We want this to be ‘Superman finds himself, becomes Superman and then comes out,’ and I think that’s a really important distinction there,” he said.
Taylor added that he had been seeing tweets of people saying they “burst into tears when they read the news.”
Northstar, another Marvel superhero, was one of the first openly gay superheroes in American comic books, and the first to come out in a book published by Marvel Comics.
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