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Celebrating Pride Month, we are looking at some of the characters in DC Comics that belong to the LGBTQ+ community. I invited JennytheGeek on to discuss the topic and get her feelings as a trans woman (and fellow superhero fan), on how these different characters were handled.

One slight correction. I referred to Danny the Street as gender-fluid in the show. I meant to say non-binary. My apologies for the mix-up in terms.

If you know who the one on the right is, you also know this is a bittersweet ending for Wanda.

With a few exceptions, comic book romances rarely end well. This is no exception.

Anyone else distracted by the cat in the last panel? Just me? Okay…

To be appearing in a comic near you soon!

Whoops! Forgot one! Thanks for the reminder, Jenny!

No, I’m not just repeating the episode number again, but spelling it out. 52 (or Fifty-Two) was an important work in the DC Universe, so much so that the number keeps popping up in DC Lore ever since. This year-long weekly series was the first in a few that DC did, but is the only one that really left a lasting impact. Because this is Episode 52, I decided to go into more detail on this story, introducing the basic set-ups and talking about what made the story one of my personal favorites.

Steel, Ralph, The Question, Booster Gold, and Renee are all there in the background.

Everything there means something, but telling you what would be spoiler territory.

Episode 89: LGBT Characters in DC (with JennytheGeek)

Episode 52: Fifty-Two (The DC Mini-Series)