He thought the murder of Marvel’s biggest gay hero by one of its most popular characters (in comics, films and merchandising) sent the wrong message. In 2005 Northstar was killed by a brainwashed Wolverine, which enraged Mr. And his first kiss has unforeseen repercussions. Still, “Hero” is not a saccharine fairy tale with male superheroes in matching capes flying arm in arm. “A book like this could’ve saved me when I was young,” he said. He knows that not everyone is so lucky, and that many struggle, as he did, as they come to terms with their sexual identities. Moore said, and, “they certainly didn’t love me any less.” His parents didn’t want his life to be harder, Mr.
“I feel so bad for kids that don’t have parents in their corner,” he said. Moore said his had always been supportive, especially when he told his family he was gay. “He said, ‘Perry, I wasn’t that much of a monster, was I?’ ” Mr. Moore said he was worried about his father’s reaction to it and gave it to him to read last. With “Hero,” the process happened in reverse. But he did give his son a copy of “The Things They Carried,” by Tim O’Brien, which he said captured his experience in Vietnam. Moore said his father didn’t speak much about his military service. Moore made Thom’s father, Hal, a disgraced superhero, which he saw as an allegory for how some American soldiers were treated upon their return from Vietnam.
Moore, 35, a producer of the “Chronicles of Narnia” film series, said “Hero” began to take shape when he combined the story of his father, William, a Vietnam veteran who received a Bronze Star, with the world of superheroes. That mission is a multipart endeavor to show gay superheroes in a positive light, to learn from his experiences with his father and to give younger readers a potential role model in Thom. “My publisher did not shy away from my mission,” he said during a recent interview near his home in Greenwich Village. Moore, like some of the costumed champions he admires, hopes to right some wrongs.
“Hero,” published in hardback last week by Hyperion Teen, tells the story of Thom Creed, coping not only with high school, sexual orientation and a strained home life, but also with his own budding superpowers. Moore, who is gay, and he has funneled his passion into a young-adult novel. He also has the fervor of an activist when discussing the dearth - and occasional shoddy treatment - of gay superheroes in mainstream comic books. Perry Moore has the sinewy physique and golden looks of a California surfer, but get him talking about comics, and he can out-geek the biggest fanatic.
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