The 2014 TV season is about to bring us some new eye candy, and we’re taking a look at what to expect. FIRST UP:  GOTHAM.

 

GOTHAM is a prequel to the BATMAN comics series. The focus will be on Commissioner Gordon when he was just an ambitious rookie cop named James Gordon. The good news is that the show will feature a prominent lesbian character played actress Victoria Cartagena,  Renee Montoya. The character  became popular among LGBT comic readers when she was outed as lesbian in the comic book series. Montoya’s inclusion in the series will mark the first time a lesbian of color has appeared in a live-action version of a Batman series and will also be the first time a lesbian of color will be a recurring character on a prime-time superhero series.

“Growing up, I rarely saw people of color or gay people depicted in a positive light, and I know when you don’t see yourself reflected in the world around you, it does things to your self-esteem,” Cartagena says. “I know if I had seen a character like Renee on TV when I was younger — a Latina who is smart, powerful, and strong — it would’ve encouraged me to dream bigger. So I know what she means to people, and if watching me means that I can help someone else feel included, than that makes me very happy.”

Cartagena believes Gotham’s inclusion of strong women from a variety of underrepresented backgrounds will help usher in a new age of inclusion for film and TV based in the superhero realm. It’s a sentiment shared by her costar Pinkett Smith. “It’s a new day when we can have a show on television that is not afraid to explore various sexual orientations of women,” says Pinkett Smith. “Let us hope that this is a path toward even more change in regard to the perceptions of female sexuality, as well as our bodies in relation to sex.”

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Created by Bruno Heller (“The Mentalist”) and premiering Monday as a lead-in to the Fox hit “Sleepy Hollow.”

Premiere: Monday, September 22, 8 pm on Fox.

 

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