In an interview with Comicosity, Greg
Rucka, the writer behind the Wonder Woman comics reboot, said
that he believes Wonder Woman “has been in love and had
relationships with other women.”
“It's supposed to be paradise,”
Rucka said of Wonder Woman's fictional all-female island nation of
Themyscira. “You're supposed to be able … to have a fulfilling
romantic and sexual relationship. And the only options are women.”
“But an Amazon doesn't look at
another Amazon and say, 'You're gay.' They don't. The concept
doesn't exist.”
“Now, are we saying Diana has been in
love and had relationships with other women? As [illustrator Nicola
Scott] and I approached it, the answer is obviously yes,” he added.
Rucka also described how Wonder Woman's
queerness impacted her relationship with Steve Trevor, her love
interest in previous incarnations of the character.
“When we talk about agency of
characters in 2016, Diana deciding to leave her home forever –
which is what she believes she’s doing – if she does that because
she’s fallen for a guy, I believe that diminishes her heroism,”
Rucka
said. “She doesn’t leave because of Steve. She leaves
because she wants to see the world and somebody must go and do this
thing. And she has resolved it must be her to make this sacrifice.”
Wonder Woman appeared in this year's
Batman v. Superman and a standalone film is in the works.