I took an "Industrial Arts" class in Virginia high school.

Being hetero has never stopped me from really enjoying the close friendships in comics between men. I mean, real friendships where the men love each other more than they'd love a woman, and maybe to their detriment in terms of relations with the opposite sex.

There's been inklings of that, in such relationships as Kamandi and Ben Boxer, Iron Munro and the Human Bomb, Wonder Man and the Beast, Hercules and Thor, Hawkman and the Atom, Power Man and Iron Fist. Their loyalty to each other is a forged bond, unshakable and as true as any true love. This is a common theme in a lot of genre literature anywhere, and it masks an awareness that some men in particular find those bonds in other men. While being as Not-Gay as they can be, there's little doubt that there's a rudimentary sexuality between the men, if only as an acknowledgement of a kind of verility they see in themselves, or wished they had.