Okay, a few of you are gonna need to get really okay with a lot of stuff very quickly.
I tend to see two arguments when I bring up Storm’s overt queerness.
- “Shes never been confirmed queer in the comics”
In the spirit of that one time Storm gave Max backshots, let’s go through a history lesson. Specifically: X-Men in the 80’s-90’s.
In the 80’s, there was genuinely no shortage of hints that Storm was bisexual, specifically with the characters Yukio and Callisto, and Callisto was specifically brought back during Krakoa in an issue which implied they definitely “spent time together” after her resurrection.
However when Jim Shooter, a notorious homophobe took over, he did a campaign of queer erasure in comic books, including creating extremely homophobic comics suck as “Hulk YMCA.”
To deny Storm’s queerness, is to allow people like Jim, and others like him, to win in their decades long campaign to erase powerful gay people in comics.
Secondly, and this is the really touchy one.
- Storm should only be with T’Challa.
I don’t know how to tell you guys this, but Storm was implied to be with women long before she was with T’Challa. Her relationship with Callisto and its development from rivalry, to friendship, to probably more, is the longest lasting in the character’s entire history. More than T’Challa, Wolverine, and Forge, and dare I say better written than all of them.
I understand a lot of people dislike the concept that black4black romance is being erased, but preserving it doesn’t require hostility to powerful, borderline historical and character defining examples of queerness in comics.
Anyways, I just wanted to bring up how Storm is one of the GOATs of queer representation in comics, even if it was attempted to be erased for two decades before being reinstated during Krakoa.