User:He-said-youd-call

Hey everyone,

I'm a queer cis male, pronouns he him his. I'm still exploring and learning about myself and the LGBT+ community, and I've kinda taken a dive into the deep end approach, as much as I can over the internet. If I make any mistakes or offend anyone, please just politely as you can inform me.

I read a lot of webcomics, and I figured I'd help start this site build up more pages. There's only like 17 right now, and I think the navigation pages are included in that. :)

Here's the LGBT+ comics I'm interested in: (using this as a quick list of pages to work on)

El Goonish Shive - genderqueer paradise, a world perfectly fit to explore that inkling you might have had that probably pretty much everyone is at least a little bisexual and doesn't admit or even think about it. Oh, what I'd do for the transformation gun that's one of the major plot points and involved in almost every storyline in some fashion: it lets you take on any physical form imaginable, and can even do relative shifts, taking someone and changing their sex with as little modification or deliberate exaggeration as you like. The author is clearly somewhat genderfluid, and that relaxed perception of self-gender and some of his fantasies heavily influenced this comic almost from the very beginning. Multiple characters of varying sexualities and at least one kinda permanently trans character? But she's kind of a spoiler if you haven't read the comic yet. The other characters spend at least some to a lot of time genderbent, but prefer their assigned genders. I rate 4.5 out of 5 rainbows.

Phoebe and Her Unicorn - a fun comic that's pretty much exactly the title (think Calvin and Hobbes-esque, except the unicorn is indisputably real) by long time webcomic artist Dana Claire Simpson, famous for Ozy and Millie which started on the internet 18 years ago! This isn't a noticeably gay comic, though, it's written to newspaper standards and recently got syndicated, so isn't likely to get much gayer later on. Dana, however, is a trans woman, and a fantastic and funny professional artist, simply inspiring to follow. I rate 1 out of 5 rainbows, but easily 4.5 out of 5 stars.

Dumbing of Age - David Willis has been on the internet a long time as well, starting with a comic called Roomies! and moving on to It's Walky! and Shortpacked! (the exclamation marks are part of the titles, yeah, they're all in one universe and the exclamation marks are supposed to hint at that.) When he started writing comics, he was a sheltered young evangelist Christian college student, and wrote from that perspective, calling out sins and supposed hypocrisies all throughout Roomies! and into It's Walky! However, he eventually grew out of it, and is a firm atheist now, and a strong ally. Dumbing of Age is a reboot of his earlier universe with tons and tons of tweaks. Some of the main characters are back to their sheltered Christian views that they held at the beginning of the first universe, especially the main character Joyce, who is meant to be autobiographical, showing through the comic how the artist himself became disillusioned with his upbringings and became a more accepting and tolerant person. It's a touching and adorable comic, but it's also a very strong roller coaster of emotions. Willis is not gentle on his readers, and never has been, but at least no one has died in this reboot yet! yet... Be careful reading this comic. It's a dose of reality, and there are triggers for many things in it. attempted date rape, abduction of a runaway lesbian teen by her father, plenty of sexist hate, and so far two trans characters trying to do their best to live their lives. They're both definitely side characters, but both are portrayed realistically, and one is taking an important focus in the most recent storyline. I rate 4 out of 5 rainbows.

Saving, I'll be back.