Two Gay Guys are back to discuss what's hot in gay entertainment. What's up with the homophobic X-Files movie? And why are the critics savaging Mamma Mia!? And don't even get them started on anti-gay science fiction author Orson Scott Card...

Check it all out, after the break!

There's been a lot of static around here lately about comics publishing giant Marvel's handling of gay themes and issues. If you checked out the recent mainpage editorial about outspoken (vitriolic?) anti-gay author Orson Scott Card, you may be disappointed to learn that in addition to their adapting his novel Ender's Game as a comic book series, the publisher put the writer in charge of the recent Ultimate Iron Man miniseries.

Additionally, recent developments in both the Ultimate X-Men (with gay characters Northstar and Colossus) and Young Avengers (with gay superheroes Hulking and Wiccan) series have gay comics fans appalled and at the treatment of the few gay characters that comics have to offer.

One reader points out that Marvel has generally had a fairly gay-friendly past, so perhaps bringing these points to their attention would do some good. If you'd care to contact them, here's the information. To contact the Ultimate editors directly, here's their email. And here's Editor in Chief Joe Quesada's Myspace page.

Overall, YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association, has a good history of supporting books that can be or special interest to LGBT youth. James St. James' Freak Show was named on their 2008 list of the Best Books for Young Adults and their past graphic novel recommendations include titles like Young Avengers and Top 10: The Forty-Niners. However, the organization sparked a bit of controversy this year when it picked sci-fi writer Orson Scott Card for its Margaret A. Edwards Award this year.

The Margaret A. Edwards Award is given to an author who has a lifetime history of "helping adolescents become aware of themselves and addressing questions about their role and importance in relationships, society, and in the world." Past winners include Ursula K. Le Guin, S.E. Hinton, Anne McCaffrey and Paul Zindel.

This year, the award has gone to science fiction writer Orson Scott Card, who is best known for Ender's Game, which won multiple awards when it was published (the short story that inspired it is also considered a classic of anti-war sci-fi). However, in recent years, Card has also become known for his political columns where he has expressed some strongly anti-gay positions.

Card's anti-gay views first came to light in a column opposing same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, where Card said that advocates for marriage equality were "guided only by the slogan of immaturity and barbarism: 'If it feels good, do it!'" Card's most damning comment came when he advocated for laws criminalizing homosexualty because, essentially, he prefers his homosexuals closeted and fearful: