Recently, however, the comic publisher has made a more serious effort to diversify their line-up of books both on and off the page, which has slowly led to more LGBT representation. Haden Blackmore publicly claimed that they left the comic because they were not allowed to marry Batwoman Kate Kane to her fiancée Maggie Sawyer DC attempted to counter the negative publicity by saying the decision had more to do with a company-wide policy against superhero marriages, saying “heroes shouldn’t have happy personal lives,” which only frustrated fans more. This isn’t the first time a Batfamily comic has made headlines for a lesbian wedding - although last time, it was for the cancellation of one. One of them was taking Frankie to the next level, and one of them was just allowing Babs to have regular Batgirl adventures without all of the looming darkness of Gotham City crushing down on her.”

“So thankfully we’ve gotten to continue working on the series, and we’ve been able to do these things that we’ve always wanted to do. “And we didn’t know that we were going to be successful at all and get to do any more than six issues. “This was something we talked about when we took the book over and we didn’t know if we were ever going to get a chance to play it out, because we had so much heavy lifting to do in our first arc that there wasn’t room to play up this plot,” Brenden Fletcher, who co-writes the comic with Cameron Stewart, told MTV News over the phone. She first began dating her activist friend Jo in 2014 just before the new “Batgirl” creative team first took over the book, and today the two lovebirds are officially tying the knot. When Alysia first came out to Babs in 2013, she was widely heralded as the first civilian transgender character in a mainstream superhero comic series (although not the first transgender character ever, as then-writer Gail Simone pointed out).

Instead today’s nuptials are all about Alysia Yeoh, Barbara Gordon’s best friend and former roommate - and an openly transgender woman. Today (October 28), the latest issue of DC Comics’ “Batgirl” is making history in the sweetest way possible: with a wedding!īatgirl herself isn’t getting married in Issue #45, though she’s merely a part of the bridal party.

Batgirl #45 by Cameron Stewart