Much of my early childhood was engrossed in comic book heroes and I was fascinated by the artists’ talents to the point that I, too, used to sketch a likeness of each of their heroes. I would marvel at their physiques and wished someday that my skin and bones would take on the same. The thought never occurred to me that because they were all in tight fitting garbs that they were homosexual. To my surprise, much later in life I learned that some psychiatrists actually postulated that these heroes promoted homosexuality!

Currently there’s a book out titled “Hero” that is about a superhero who’s gay and falls for another male superhero. My, my, was I ever dumb in my early youth—so safely ensconsed in innocence.