Caught Watchmen a couple of weeks back. Now, I admit I’m not a big lesbian comic book fan except for the Archie and Asterix and Oblix comics that I read back in my youth. However, being around all the comic book fans (both girlfriend and officemates) make me sometimes wish I was.
Anyhoo, apparently, there is a lesbian character in Watchmen named Silhouette, member of the Minutemen, another group of superheroes formed a couple of decades before the Watchmen were formed. I wouldn’t elaborate on the Watchmen story and plot here, but you can take a look at Watchmen on Wikipedia.

The MinuteMen in a Christmas party drawn in comics

The Minutemen in the movie adaptation
Silhouette was a German who joined the Minutemen, but was later on kicked out when it became known (about 1946) that she was a lesbian. Later on in the film, there was a shot of her and her love being killed with blood spattered on the walls, spelling out “lesbian whore”. It is rumored that the killer was an adversary seeking revenge.
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