Since his debut, Air Corps intelligence operative Steve Trevor has been portrayed as Wonder Woman‘s love interest. Though some comic book, film and TV adaptations have rendered his relationship with the Amazonian heroine more platonic than romantic, the character’s sexuality has always remained the same. That is, until a recently-released graphic novel – Tempest Tossed – reimagined him as gay.
In what pop culture news site Cbr calls “one of the boldest, most effective revisions in the story,” writer Laurie Halse Anderson changes the character from a single, straight individual to two married men whose relationship with Wonder Woman is neither romantic nor sexual.
On top of that, these new iterations of Trevor are also no longer white, but Asian and African-American. The black member of the couple, Trevor, resembles the original character not only in name but in occupation as well. A soldier employed by the Un and sent...
In what pop culture news site Cbr calls “one of the boldest, most effective revisions in the story,” writer Laurie Halse Anderson changes the character from a single, straight individual to two married men whose relationship with Wonder Woman is neither romantic nor sexual.
On top of that, these new iterations of Trevor are also no longer white, but Asian and African-American. The black member of the couple, Trevor, resembles the original character not only in name but in occupation as well. A soldier employed by the Un and sent...
- 6/23/2020
- by Tim Brinkhof
- We Got This Covered
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