Prop. 8 Vs. Prop. X
As readers of Uncanny X-Men know, writer Matt Fraction has recently moved the team to San Fransisco. When the X-Men were created (and for much of their existence afterward) the fact that they were mutants was often an allegory for race relations in the United States, most predominantly for African Americans. However, in recent years there has been something of a shift in the metaphor and mutants have come to be more associated with the gay community.
And what is the biggest issue facing the gay community at this moment? California's Proposition 8, the proposed ban on same-sex marriages. So you would think it comes as no surprise hat Fraction would use this news blitz for a story about Proposition X, a ban on mutants reproducing. Well, you'd be wrong. It's the other way around!
Fraction explains from a Newsarama interview.
Trask, a character Scott Lobdell helped create in the mid-90's will be introducing 'Proposition X'--a bill that proposes a ban on mutant reproduction. In regards to Proposition X and how it echoes the recent Proposition 8--an amendment to the California constitution that eliminates same-sex unions, Fraction said, "You know, I've officially become one of those writers that writes something and then--a couple of months later--it really happens. I thought only Grant Morrison and Alan Moore wrote things and then they actually occurred." He added, "This is one of the dilemmas of writing contemporary science fiction; we started planning and writing out these stories close to two years ago. Simon Trask and Prop X had been written into our plans before I had even heard of Prop 8," he chuckled, "Were I a California resident--that may have been different; it's just one of those strange synchronicities."
Here's hoping that Prop. X will get voted down, even if Prop. 8 wasn't.
Goblin
Posted to Comics, Superheroes on 5 March 2009
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