Kaldur’s sexuality isn’t a complete surprise, particularly for comic readers familiar with his aforementioned DC Comics counterpart Jackson Hyde. Thus far new character Halo/Gabrielle Daou came out as non-binary and shared a kiss with Harper Row, who is bisexual. This season of Young Justice has seen greater queer representation than the previous two seasons when it aired on network television. In previous seasons, Aqualad was shown to have romantic feelings for fellow Atlantean Tula and even kissed team member Rocket. The latest episode “Quiet Conversations” took a significant turn for Kaldur’s character when he shared an onscreen kiss with Wyynde (a somewhat obscure DC Comics character associated with Atlantis). Voiced by Khary Payton, Kaldur was largely unseen in the first half of the Outsiders season until most recently. Kaldur’ahm, the former protege of Aquaman known as Aqualad before taking his mentor’s mantle in Outsiders, was a new character created specifically for the show and eventually integrated into the comics under the name Jackson Hyde.
