SUPER GAY! - Superheroes and HIV/AIDS

Linoleum Knife

Alonso Duralde

Gay, Lgbt, Reviews, Film, Entertainment, Movies, Tv & Film, Criticism, Movie

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this intergenerational conversation about the struggles superheroes faced in combating the homophobia, stigma, and racism entangled in the AIDS Crisis, Johnny and Alex also talk about ways HIV/AIDS shaped their own lives, and find parallels in the current pandemic. Spanning the late 1980s to the early 2000s, with Marvel and DC Comics including Green Arrow, the Incredible Hulk, and the X-Men. Produced by Alexandro “Prof Xtra” Segade and Johnny “Jungleguts” Martin.

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0:00.0	Super K.
0:03.0	Hello, hello, hello.
0:04.5	I'm Johnny Jungle Guts.
0:06.1	And I'm Professor Extra.
0:07.7	And you're listening to Super Gay,
0:09.4	the podcast where we talk about all things gay in comics and more.
0:14.1	But mostly comics.
0:16.1	Now, Alex.
0:18.8	Yeah.
0:19.6	Professor Extra.
0:21.6	As we all know, we are in a pandemic moment.
0:28.1	And I think that's what's informing our decision to do this episode.
0:33.1	But let's just talk about what's been going on and how we've been doing, what have you been working on.
0:39.4	You told me you were doing some translation for comics.
0:43.8	Oh, yeah.
0:44.7	Well, actually, so a trade that I figured out with Luciano Vecchio was I would trade working on his comic, Sedeno, which I love.
1:00.0	And so as a sort of fan encouraged him to get a translation into English so that he could put it up on comicsology. So I traded basically working as an editorial person and helping get that translation into English.
1:09.0	In exchange for him teaching me his tricks on Clip
1:14.1	Studio, which is an application that he uses to make comics on his iPad. And I used it for the
1:21.9	art form four page piece that I made at the beginning of the pandemic. So he's been showing me on
1:27.2	Zoom how to do a bunch of things.
1:28.8	And I've been diving, diving deep into his beautiful world of Sedeno, which is a story about
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