It didn’t take long for London’s Daily Mail to leap from Spider-Man encompasses a half-black, half-Latino teen to a half-black, half-Latino teen … who “could be gay within the future”: “Fans can have to be compelled to wait till the official Spider Man relaunch next month to seek out out how he came to be the superhero. however another surprise can be within the pipeline when his creators said that within the future they'd not rule out creating him gay.”
As best as I will tell, the only real basis for that's a quote from USA these days during which Ultimate Spider-Man artist Sara Pichelli says, “Maybe sooner or later a black or gay — or each — hero are thought of one thing completely traditional.” It’s not precisely the same factor, is it? Doesn’t matter, though, as it’s ok for Matt Drudge to declare that the Spider-Man “reincarnation” “could be gay.”
For the record, a Marvel spokesman was unambiguous when he confirmed for CBR News that Miles Morales isn’t gay.
Still, a blogger for the gay magazine Instinct is happy with the chance, writing that “though my cash was on Robin because the initial mainstream superhero to come back out, I’ll be nothing however in awe if Marvel makes the nice webbed one bat, err, spider, for our team!”
Meanwhile, Glenn Beck has weighed in on the new Spider-Man, saying, “Do I care if he’s half-Hispanic, all Hispanic? No. Half-black, 0.5 — i actually don’t care. Half-gay, all gay, I don’t very care. … I don’t care. It’s a stupid comic book.” However, what he will care regarding is that … Michelle Obama is somehow — somehow! — behind the “half-black, half-Hispanic gay Spider-Man.”