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Picture of characters Leo Snart (Citizen Cold) and Ray Terrill (The Ray), a m/m superhero couple, in a kissing scene.  The actors are Wentworth Miller (Leo, left) and Russell Tovey (Ray, right). Regarding studio portrayals of LGBT characters Crisis on Earth X was the fourth annual Arrowverse crossover event, featuring episodes of the live action TV shows: Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash, and DC's Legends of Tomorrow, on The CW network. The first episode aired Nov 27, 2017. Across the event's four episodes, characters Leo and Ray share a total of 3 (three) kiss scenes among their tender moments. Their kiss onscreen was the first time that a m/m pair was seen to kiss in live action superhero media, anywhere. TV or film. Watch a video clip of two of their kiss scenes here from YouTube . This was the first time gay men kissed onscreen in superhero media. It was November 2017. - Since then actor Wentworth Miller, who played Leo Snart, has spoken about what went on behind the scenes and

  We Are Lady Parts - review This is long overdue BUT here is my review of We Are Lady Parts, season 1! TL;DR: It's great, watch it now! It was announced back in November '21 that We Are Lady Parts will return for a season 2, which was great to hear. It's well deserved. What is We Are Lady Parts? We Are Lady Parts is a British sitcom series from Channel 4 ( watch trailer here ) that debuted in May '21, written and directed by Nida Manzoor .  The series follows an unsigned British punk rock band consisting entirely of Muslim women. In the US it is distributed by Peacock. If you're in the UK you can watch it on Freeview streaming, Channel 4. It should be noted that We Are Lady Parts has had rave reviews across the board.  My peers who watched it before me also gave it great reviews.  What delayed me in watching was my concern that a show about a punk rock band would simply be like many mainstream (cough, white, cough) shows or movies before it, and feel

MENA or SWANA This is a resource post explaining the words MENA and SWANA. What do they mean? MENA = Middle East and North Africa. Image description: screenshot from Google top results for "mena meaning". MENA the word is an English language acronym referring to regions of Middle East and North Africa. The countries referred to most often include: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Israel, Egypt, Afghanistan, Cyprus, Libya, Sudan, and with some more countries sometimes included.   MENA does not refer to one country only, nor does it refer to countries or regions with only ONE religion or ethnicity, as there are many different religions and ethnicities in these regions. As you can see from the Google result image, MENA as a word has been prominently used by the west. However, MENA as a term has also b een adopted by us folks from and connected to these regions to refer to ou

  Image description: Actors clockwise from top left, Ezra Miller, Quintessa Swindell, Chella Man, Ruby Rose. Celebrating DC's non binary actors With the news of DC/HBO Max casting trans actress Ivory Aquino to play the first trans character in a DC feature film, I also wanted to do a post celebrating all the non binary and genderqueer DC actors. Listing is done by their first appearances in DC live action, both movies and TV shows.  - Ezra Miller : Ezra Miller , who plays Barry Allen/The Flash. First appearances: cameos in Batman vs. Superman (2016), Justice League (2017). Upcoming movie: The Flash (November 2022). Miller came out as queer in 2012 and has since spoken about their identity and pronouns in interviews (such as the GQ interview in 2018 ), also stating they do not use the label 'queer' other than to reject gendered labels. "Queer just means no, I don't do that. I don't identify as a man. I don't identify as a woman." Miller uses they

'Batgirl' Casts Ivory Aquino as First Trans Character in a DC Comics Feature Film Barbara Gordon has officially found her roommate. Ivory Aquino ('Tales of the City', 'When We Rise') has been cast in the HBO Max feature film Batgirl as Alysia Yeoh, the best friend of the titular superhero, a.k.a. Barbara Gordon (Leslie Grace). Both Aquino and Yeoh are transgender, marking the first time a live-action feature film adaptation of a DC Comics title will feature an openly trans character. Yeoh first appeared in a 2011 issue of Batgirl written by Gail Simone and pencilled by Ardian Syaf Source: Variety - Congratulations, Ivory Aquino! This makes Ivory the FOURTH trans actor to be playing a named character in a DC superhero live action. So far we've had the pleasure to see: Dreamer/Nia Nal , played by Nicole Maines , and her roommate Yvette played by RoxyWood .  First appearances: Supergirl season 4 Then on Titans season 2 we had Jericho played by Che

No, fans aren't 'racist' if they're unbothered about Ben/Phastos, it's simply a lacklustre ship. We are barely into 2022 and I see a worrying trend among fans of Marvel Studios/The MCU claiming that any fan not fully supporting one particular 'ship in The MCU is a racist. Wow! How come? Well this latest stan Twitter row is due to recent MCU movie Eternals, which was only released two months ago. Some more vocal fans of The MCU are currently claiming that fans who don't care about new couple, Phastos/Ben, are racist. They claim that fans have shown more support to the recent Loki show on Disney Plus than they have to Phastos/Ben in the Eternals movie, claiming it's because Loki is white while Phastos and Ben are not (the actors are Black and Lebanese respectively). The same fans claim that MCU Loki has more fans generally than Phastos and his walk-on-character-husband named Ben. (Well, obviously? Loki has been a fan favorite for ten years.