Gay ninja turtles

• Splinter's sentimental relationship with Scumbug in TMNT: Mutant Mayhem led to confusion about his sexuality, but he is not gay.
• Previous iterations of Splinter in TMNT have not explored his romantic pursuits, except for his relationship with Tang Shen.
• The confusion about Splinter's sexuality was fueled by a marketing mistake that incorrectly identified Scumbug's gender as male.

On TMNT’s Lack of Gay Characters

On The Technodrome.com’s thread on the latest issue of the current TMNT comic, a discussion sprung up over the possibility of revealing that a particular character was gay in this latest incarnation of the franchise. As my contribution, I noted that given that as far as I knew, no a character in the turtles’ quarter-century history has ever been identified as gay* or as any of the other letters in the QUILTBAG** blanket, and that I really wished that this newest incarnation could include some—possibly someone like Baxter Stockman or Karai, who are historically major characters and whose sexualities hadn’t been established yet in this version of their tale. I found the general response…dismaying.

In all honest I would just like to leave sexuality out of comic books period……unless it pertains to the story such as romance, as in Casey and April, or (If she was) Karia being a queer woman and having difficult coming to grips with it, wondering how she would tell her father or should she tell her father, will she deliver shame to her clan???? Stuff like that, I dont want sexual orientation thrown out there

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