Ah, the gay best friend; that media coined phrase which forever relegated us to mere supporting status at the movies: a source of camp fun and bitchy one-liners and of course a shoulder to cry on when it all goes tits up.
NewStatesman.com (we’re going high-brow today) has a great piece about the potted history of [...]

The fan-geeks have packed away their lightsabres, wizard staffs and Wonder Woman bracelets and San Diego’s wet dream to everything sci-fi and fantasy, Comic-Con, is mothballed for another year.
And we’re going to have to wait at least another year for any hint of a gay superhero or major gay character in a comic book movie [...]