Writer Mike Szymanski, of the online Bisexuality Examiner, and published co-author behind “The Bisexual’s Guide to the Universe,” discusses in his recent online posting, the bisexuality connection in the current box office money maker ‘Watchmen.’ I’ve never been a graphic novel fan, but I’m aware of Alan Moore and his other works including “Constantine,” “V for Vendetta,” and “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”. What I haven’t been aware of was the bisexuality presence.
The brilliant writer of the comic books that this is based on, Alan Moore, is well known for bisexual characters (women mostly, of course), in his work.
Moore’s “Lost Girls” written from 1991 to 2006 focused on bisexual version of three famous literary characters, and his “V for Vendetta” had a few bisexual characters.
In his “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” the character of Orlando is a bisexual immortal who changes randomly and without any warning. He changes sex with great glee. The women all go for her when she’s a she, including Mina Murray, the heroine of the series, and men go for him, too, when he’s a guy.
Keanu Reeve’s character from “Constantine” should have been more gay in the 2005 movie if it was to match how Moore wrote him. The adaptation of the “Hellblazer” comic series was quite bisexual in the form that Moore wrote him. He was blond, bi and loved to smoke. The character in the comic books had both girlfriends and boyfriends and believed that relationships weren’t normal.
Moore, 55, was greatly influenced by bisexual writer William S. Burroughs, and gay horror-meister Clive Barker, and it shows.
In his personal life, he had a triad relationship with two women. His wife, Phyllis, was bisexual and had a lover, Deborah, and the women and his two daughters eventually left him.
What I liked from reading Szymanski’s article was the hopefulness in this movie’s success possibly bringing more visibility to Moore’s other “super-progressive works”. Mission accomplished right here folks! I’m definitely more interested in his other stuff now. Sexuality is more than just making out (But I hear if you do want to see some girl on girl kissy face doesn’t miss the first scenes before the opening credits!)
Speaking of girls making out, regarding bisexuality, one would think it’s just a girl thing (that more women are bi then men). Seriously, think for like two seconds the bi people you’ve seen on TV or the big scene, nine times out of ten they were probably girls. And if they were men, they acted so feminine you have to wonder what kind of women they’d really get to do more than shop with them.
There are all kinds of straight women, gay women, straight men, gay men, what are the many faces of the bi man? Maybe the ever still in-development project of Sean Hayes for Showtime will open that window, and give us a peek. Last year the New York Times described the plot as “a guy with a wife and kids in California and a boyfriend in New York.” Even if it this “guy” ends up being another clique husband in the closet, I’m still curious to how it’ll play out. If anything, here at Bifactor, if its bi coastal it’s up for bi-weekly discussion…
–posted by Maddie Banks
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