Since their first debut in 2021, DC Pride Anthology, celebrating LGBTQIA+ characters and creators, has been a highlight of the publisher’s schedule. This tradition continues for DC Pride 2025, marking the anthology’s fifth year anthology. But what DC does something different at DC’s Pride 2025 this year, rather than DC’s collection, features a singular narrative arc of interwoven stories told by comic book creators Tim Sheridan, Vita Ayala, Josh Trujiro, Skyler Patridge, Al Kaplan, Max Sarin and others.
DC Pride 2025 Main Cover by Kris Anka
Here’s how publishers explain DC Pride 2025:
DC Pride 2025 brings together DC heroes when a century ago tavern, the heart of Gotham City’s queer life, unexpectedly announced its imminent closure. It was a huge loss for the community, and generations of patrons have returned to pay tribute to a lifelong space of memories, wishes and dreams, including Alan Scott of Green Lantern. Alan finally returns to where he fell for his first love, touching the wall where Johnny Rudd carved the symbols of their love, remembering the day before he went to hell for them, and saying goodbye.
But love is a kind of magic, and in Alan’s experience, magic can take on its own life. Before anyone knows that it’s going on, heroes, villains and civilians have a strong connection to this mystical place across the DCU – questions, Midnighter and Apollo, Harley Quinn, Green Lantern Joe Mull Rain, Bunker, Conner Hawk, and among them, the Blue Snowman cheered up towards a strange place.
Surrounded by Alan Scott’s return to the bar, the story by Tim Sheridan, Emilio Piriu and Julio Macaione, DC Pride 2025 features the story of Viter Ayala’s Joe Murraine. The Bunker story by Mags and Philip Sevie, Josh Trujiro and Don Aguiro, the Harley Quinn story by Maya Houston and Max Sarin, the Blue Snowman story by Jude Ellison S. Doyle, the Renee Montoya story by Vita Ayala, Skyler Patridge, and the Midniter story. By taking the writer’s room approach for DC Pride, each creative team works together to build towards a common goal. A comic book that chases hope, empowerment, community, and light in the darkness.
Tim Sheridan, author of the GLAAD Media Award nominated series Alan Scott: Green Lantern, expressed his excitement to be involved in the project.
“DC Pride 2025 is a celebration of the power of life, love and community. The roster of talent that shapes this story is as grand as the story itself. This book, like it has been in the past few years, is a way to reach out to our community and remind them that we are all together.”
Jude Ellison S. Doyle, author of the GLAAD Media Award-nominated series The Neighbors, conveyed similar sentiments about his involvement in DC Pride 2025.
“It’s a great honor to be part of the story that DC has been telling and helping Josh Trujillo bring in a new character, Ethan Rivera. It’s also my first chance to work with Al Kaplan since Maw, and he’s a future legend who continues to adore me with his work. It was truly amazing and soothing to hang out with strange people and make comics.
Vita Ayala, writer for the GLAAD Media Award-nominated series New Mutants, detailed in his writer’s room approach to this year’s DC Pride Special.
“What made this project special for me was how the collaboration in creating anthology almost reflected the metaphor framework and ultimate solution at its core. We gathered in (virtual) rooms, each with ideas for our own story parts. And at the end of time, we interweave the stories in a way that made it difficult to know where one person’s contribution ends and another contribution begins. We approached the work as collaborators and ultimately created a community space that everyone would welcome from the cold, no matter which door (or individual short stories) went through.”
The 96-page Prestige Format DC Pride 2025 will be available on June 4th, 2025. The main cover of KrisAnka and variant covers by Sozomaika, Julia Reck and Jack Hughes (1:25) will be released, all selling for USD 9.99 (Card Stock).
DC Pride Variant Cover by Jack Hughes DC Pride Variant Cover Julian Reck
Additionally, the DC community wants to hear DC Pride Stories from fans, and from March 3rd to March 28th, we opened submissions through the DC Official Discord Server through the DC Official Discord Server to share how DC’s storytelling legacy influenced or reflected on LGBTQIA+ identity, journey or experience. Once submissions are closed, DC’s editorial team will select a few letters, cosplay, and fan art that will be published in strings within the DC Pride 2025 page.
Similarly, DC continues to highlight DC Pride-themed variant covers of the series, featuring odd characters in regular and lead roles. Look for DC Pride covers this year for Detective Comics #1098 (Stephen Byrne), Harley Quinn #52 and Poison Ivy #34 (Betsy Cola), Justice League Unlimited #8 (Hayden Sherman), JSA #6 (Don Agilo), Superman #27 (Rachael Stott), and Wonder Woman #22 (Kevin wada).
Detective Comics #1098 Variant Cover by Stephen Burn Superman
In the book market, DC Pride: The Farst Reach (ISBN 9781799501527), a fourth repetition of DC’s multi-award winning Pride celebrations, is available as a hardcover collection, selling on May 27, 2025 for $19.99.
On this universe-bound trip with Kevin Wada’s cover, DC’s beloved strange characters take readers on raucous tours of the Fourth World, Nalter, A-Town, Phantom Zone, Port World, and Forget Bar. This hardcover collects additional stories that spotlight queer characters, as it did with DC Pride 2024 and DC’s vast stables and alliance creators.
DC will be releasing the DC Pride Box Set (ISBN 9781799501589), a collection of DC Pride’s first three hardcover volumes, on May 27, 2025.
The DC Pride Box Set will feature an all-star lineup of queer and alley talents, including Grant Morrison, James Tinion IV, Nicole Maines, Tungrunguyen, Klaus Janson, Vita Ayala and Zorologod. It also features extensive tribute to the well-known autobiographical comic “Finding Batman” by pioneering authors Rachel Pollack and Kevin Conroy. This set of three books includes hardcover editions of DC Pride: Love and Justice, DC Pride: The New Generation, and DC Pride: Better Together.
The acclaimed Batwoman: Eregy Storyline will be unveiled in DC’s new compact edition later this year.
In addition to DC Pride, along with cutting-edge reach and DC Pride Box sets, DC has a TBR pile, pull list, pride themed book club, in-store pride displays, and a huge catalog of books to share with friends. $9.99 US and any available book is for sale on June 17, 2025. Bestselling author Greg Racka reveals the shocking origins that set the basis for one of the most famous LGBTQIA+ characters in the DC Universe.
DC has also announced that DC Pride Comics will be added to DC Go. WebComics collection starts in June. Adapt the titles of the past four DC Pride Anthology to a vertical scrolling format. DC GO throughout June! Releases two DC Pride episodes per day, Monday to Friday, with all 42 episodes available to read in the same format as the original DC Go! There’s nothing like Harley Quinn’s Paradise web comics, Nightwing, or anything.
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