Talk:List of gay, lesbian or bisexual comics characters

message: The name of this artcle should be changed to List of gay and bisexual characters in comics.
"Comic fiction" seems somewhat confusing and could mean humorous fiction.  The only thing it makes clear if we change to using characters is that we're not including autobiographical comics.--Larrybob 21:06, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I support this. I think we should move it. However, I do not think that autobio comics are excluded from this; anyone appearing in a literary work is a character, especially in a comicbook, wherein the appearance of things is fictionalized as well. --Chris Griswold 21:26, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Oh, and how about "comics fiction?" "Sequential art?" --Chris Griswold 23:07, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  These are characters, not people. 

message: Since we have two agreed-upon problems with the article title, lets try to figure somthing better out.
I suggest somthing like "List of gay and bisexual characters in comics".
Jack Cain 23:35, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It should be "List of gay and bisexual characters in comics". Or (comics fiction). There has to be a decent collective term for comicbooks and comic strips. --Chris Griswold 15:20, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Erm, yes, I meant "List of gay and bisexual characters in comics". I misstyped it before. Jack Cain 15:25, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm alright with the changes, both people->characters and comic fiction->comics, myself. 惑乱 分からん 01:14, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool, glad there is support for this... one other thing, though -- currently the list includes lesbian characters, for example, several characters from Dykes To Watch Out For. At a glance, didn't see if there were any Trans characters listed (but certainly could include Anarcoma, the subject of a graphic novel published by Catalan Communications.  So how about "List of LGBT characters in comics" (LGBT seems to be the most common order of the acronym used in Wikipedia.) --Larrybob 03:44, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, if only to bring it inline with the rest of Wikipedia`s style. Jack Cain 06:06, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know many trans comic characters, myself. Possibly Ranma 1/2 is a borderline case (in more senses than one, it appears sometimes @_@;). 惑乱 分からん 10:30, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Rename 

message: Roy Harper has admitted to 'hustling' in order to score drugs, I believe it was in one of the Titans 80 Page Giants
:That doesn't make him gay. It makes him a drug addict. --Chris Griswold 15:38, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The phrase often used is "gay-for-pay." CovenantD 16:41, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That hyphenated phrase is a slang term that indicates someone is straight but just doing it for the money. Preference/persuasion is different from monetary gain. The debate is usually genes vs. environment; I haven't seen anyone argue that money makes you gay. --Chris Griswold 17:34, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

text: This isn't a list of possibly gay characters. That's called speculation. --Chris Griswold 21:51, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Good point. --Chris Griswold 16:11, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Roy Harper