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Pride Month 2025 is here, and today we've highlighted some LGBTQ+ comics and manga made by creators that have done work to raise awareness of LGBTQ+ people with their work. Whether it's activism in the streets or within pages, there are all sorts of ways to support each other and be an ally.

Gengoroh Tagame 

Notable works: The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame, My Brother’s Husband

A pioneer of gay manga, Tagame's earlier explicit work was groundbreaking in representing queer desire from a Japanese gay male perspective in a country where standing out has been something typically discouraged. He rose to prominence in the 1980s and ’90s with gei-komi...

When the idea for this article about the impact of women on the comic industry came up, I couldn’t think of more than a handful of names right away. I was pleasantly surprised to discover the actual number of contributions women have made.

Comics have been, traditionally, thought of as a boy’s club industry. At least that has been my impression since I was a young girl in the 90's and 2000's. While it is true that comics have been predominantly male-centered in terms of creators, women have played a hand in many well known series. I’m going to be completely honest here, I knew it wasn't necessarily true that women couldn't make comics, but why...