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It’s time for Wonder Woman to live her bisexual truth
The Independent
|July 01, 2025
As Pride Month draws to a close, superhero publisher DC Comics is under fire.

For the fifth consecutive year, it has celebrated Pride with a feast of LGBT+ characters, including Batwoman and Poison Ivy. Bravo! But missing was their number one queer icon, Wonder Woman - arguably the most socially significant comic superhero of all time.
Ever since the inception of the annual DC Pride anthology in 2021, its covers and stories have featured all of DC's top LGBT+ characters - but never Wonder Woman. If DC were willing to acknowledge their biggest female star's queer identity, she'd be front and centre of the DC Pride anthology every year, to boost the sales of their Pride output. Tellingly, she's not.
This looks like straightwashing by a supposedly pro-LGBT+ publisher and reeks of double standards: it's okay for DC's characters to be queer - except if they're the most famous and lucrative female one.

Sounds like corporate greed... but at what cost? By failing to acknowledge Wonder Woman's queerness during Pride Month, DC is effectively condoning the very homophobia it claims to combat. When asked to comment for this article on whether Wonder Woman was LGBT+ or merely an ally, DC failed to respond.
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