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New Superman Jon Kent, the Son of Clark Kent & Lois Lane, is Coming Out as Bisexual According to DC

today12 October 2021

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(source: Daily Mail)

Just in time for National Coming Out Day, DC Comics has confirmed that Jonathan Kent – Earth’s new Superman and the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, is a bisexual! 

According to NY Times, Jon can be seen kissing reporter Jay Nakamura in issue five of the comic book, Superman: Son of Kal-El which will be released on 9 November.

“It’s not a gimmick. When I was offered this job, I thought, well, if we are going to have a new Superman for the DC Universe, it feels like a missed opportunity to have another straight white saviour,” the writer, Tom Taylor, said in an interview while wearing a rainbow-striped Superman logo T-shirt.

“We didn’t want this to be ‘DC Comics creates new queer Superman’. We want this to be ‘Superman finds himself, becomes Superman and then comes out,’ and I think that’s a really important distinction there,” Tom explains.

(source: @TomTaylorMade Twitter)

Tom also noted that the new…

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Written by: Karissa Lund