'I believe that diminishes her heroism,' he told Comicosity, 'She doesn’t leave because of Steve. If Diana is only attracted to men, it is very easy to read her origin story - in which she leaves Themyscira forever in order to help Steve Trevor - as one motivated by romantic desire. Rucka himself mentions one explicitly in the interview. Even from a desire for our media to better model the diversity of humanity, there are plenty of simple, logical narrative reasons for Wonder Woman to be queer.

And, in her 2008-10 run on the title, Gail Simone wrote a Diana who introduced her male lover to a traditional Amazonian courting ritual, making clear as she did so that, yes, Amazons did use this ritual even when there were no men around.īut fans and readers have been waiting patiently for years for Wonder Woman herself to be explicitly confirmed as queer, lesbian or bisexual alongside her fellow Amazons. For example, Diana’s mother Queen Hippolyta has often been paired with her general Philippus.

Rucka and Scott’s Diana is not the first canonically gay or queer Amazon in the core DC Universe. '‘How can they not all be in same sex relationships?’ Right?' 'Now, are we saying Diana has been in love and had relationships with other women? As Nicola and I approach it, the answer is obviously yes.' But an Amazon doesn’t look at another Amazon and say, ‘You’re gay.’ They don’t. 'When you start to think about giving the concept of Themyscira its due,' Rucka said, 'the answer is, ‘How can they not all be in same sex relationships?’ Right? It makes no logical sense otherwise.

But a society exclusively composed of one gender would have very different ways of thinking about and labeling its own behavior. Rucka explained to Comicosity that the existence of romance and intimacy - and all that entails - within Amazonian society is obvious, as is Diana’s participation in that part of her culture. While the comic has not plainly expounded on the sexual or romantic lives of Diana or her sister Amazons, it has alluded to them. Wonder Woman: Year One is a long gestating passion project between Rucka and Scott, a retelling and recodification of the character’s origin story for the modern reader that has been running in alternating issues of Wonder Woman since June. In a long interview dense with discussion of creative intention and identity representation in media, past and current Wonder Woman writer Greg Rucka confirmed to Comicosity’s Matt Santori-Griffith that in his ongoing run, Diana of Themyscira is queer.Īfter asking whether Wonder Woman, as Rucka and artist Nicola Scott have presented her in their Year One story arc was queer, Santori-Griffith clarified, 'For the purposes of this conversation, I would define 'queer' as involving, although not necessarily exclusively, romantic and/or sexual interest toward persons of the same gender.'

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