Fans are boycotting DC Comics\u2019 selection of \u201cEnder\u2019s Game\u201d author and vocal anti-gay activist Orson Scott Card to pen its \u201cAdventures of Superman\u201d digital-first release.<\/p>\n
Last week, DC announced that Card was selected to write the first chapter in the digital \u201cAdventures of Superman\u201d series, and fans quickly responded with a petition calling on the company to renounce Card and \u201cstand for equality\u201d:<\/p>\n
DC Comics has just hired anti-gay writer Orson Scott Card for their new digital Adventures of Superman. He\u2019s written publicly that he believes marriage equality would lead to the end of civilization. He\u2019s also on the board of a notorious anti-equality organization. We need to let DC Comics know they can\u2019t support Orson Scott Card or his work to keep LGBT people as second-class citizens. They know they\u2019re accountable to their fans, so if enough of us speak out now, they\u2019ll hear us loud and clear.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s even more puzzling about DC\u2019s choice of Card is that his homophobia is nothing new. Author Donna Minkowitz interviewed Card for Salon back in 2000, only to learn that the man she so admired for writing a \u201cstrangely empathic novel about 6-year-olds forced to be military commanders\u201d was also a bigot. <\/p>\n