It's Pride Month! I went through my collection, and with the help of some googling, found some LGBT+ superheroes. Not a lot, since most of them fall outside of my golden age theme, but some.
Wonder Woman and Catwoman are both pretty fundamental golden age figures, and both now officially bisexual. Wonder Woman has always been at least subtextually queer, so it's no surprise that it would be confirmed once society caught up, but it was slightly unexpected to learn about Catwoman since she's so often used as a romantic foil for Batman.
Hooded Justice and Captain Metropolis were not created during the actual Golden Age of Comics, but their story is set in that era, Hooded Justice being the original "costumed vigilante" of the Watchmen timeline. Their gay relationship was canon from the beginning, though it was basically a side note in the original graphic novel. The recent HBO show fleshed their relationship a bit more, and gave Hooded Justice in particular a lot more depth.
My final Pride superhero is Shining Knight. New to me, the original Shining Knight was a legit pre-war Golden Age creation. It was a couple of reboots in the 2000s that made him intersex and/or trans.
While the Pride riot/celebration itself postdates the 1930s setting of my game, the core themes of "being yourself", "solidarity with the oppressed", "aggressively resisting fascist violence", and "dressing flamboyantly" are all extremely relevant to *any* decent exploration of the superhero genre, so expect to see at least one more Pride post here before the month is out.
All of these are heroclix except Shining Knight, who is a "half-elf Xhorhas paladin" from WizKids, with a Perry Miniatures head and old-school GW horns.
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