Supergirl Just Did One of the Best Coming Out Stories in Recent Memory

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There’s this time between realizing you’re gay and saying you’re gay that we don’t see a lot in media. Usually a character goes straight from “holy ****” to making out with someone in the course of an episode—sometimes in the course of a single scene. And so when they actually announce they’re gay, it can be anti-climatic.

But there’s this time in between the realization and the announcement and that’s when a person feels their most alien. Like Kara Danvers in the Supergirl pilot, they’re stuck in the closet, biting their lip and waiting for just the right moment to present themselves—their real selves—to the world. To say what they are, and make real what’s long been concept.

Supergirl spent the last season and change heavily mining in the queer experience to help us empathize with the last daughter of Krypton. And now the show has come full circle, and it using it to help us empathize with a gay woman—Kara’s sister Alex.

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At this late date in time are we STILL talking about who is gay and who might be gay? The thrill, the mystery and the interest is Gone, people. There are simply too many thousands of issues that deserve much more attention. Gaydom rates a great big YAAAWN these days.