[PHOTOS] The sexiest lewks from San Diego Comic Con 2025

This rebellious spirit resonated especially strongly at this year's San Diego Comic Con.

Jul 31, 2025 - 20:00

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[PHOTOS] The sexiest lewks from San Diego Comic Con 2025

Posing at Comic Con — A pair of cosplay cuties posing in the Gaslamp Quarter outside the Convention Center at San Diego Comic Con 2025. | Mike Ciriaco

Ever since Captain America punched an authoritarian in his mustachioed mug, comic culture has used its platform to rebuke injustice. This rebellious spirit resonated especially strongly at this year’s San Diego Comic Con.

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SDCC hit the ground running on Thursday with the Comedy Central Adult Animation panel featuring Matt Parker and Trey Stone, where they received the “Excellence in Animation” Award. The evening before, the season premiere of their longtime hit satirical series South Park, confronted a wannabe tyrant by skewering him in a gay relationship with Satan and lambasting his notorious smallness.

“We’re sorry,” Parker quipped, and punctuated with a deadpan stare.

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Panel discussion — ‘Gay Geeks and Where to Find Them’ panel at San Diego Comic Con 2025. | Mike Ciriaco

Matt and Trey’s aura of pugnacity permeated across various facets of SDCC 2025, notably in the ‘Gay Geeks and Where to Find Them’ panel. Hosted by Julian Jetson, this celebration of fandom, identity, and creativity in queer geek culture showcased the talents of librarian Jack Phoenix, content creator Brooke Edwards, cosplayer Avery Ball, and cosplay queen Jimmy Sherfy. In an era of book, trans bathroom, and drag brunch bans, the inclusion of these various queer comic culturists is in itself a form of rebellion.

Getting into drag — Jimmy Sherfy as Galinda/Glinda from the film *Wicked* at San Diego Comic Con 2025. | Mike Ciriaco

“Share your life,” said Sherfy, when asked the most effective way for gay geeks to fight against the wave of bigotry and authoritarianism currently inflicting our country. The San Diego-based drag performer is best known for sharing his various, often gender-bending, personas on social media, providing a window into his queer-centric world of nightlife performances to followers across the globe. “Share what brings you joy. Someone in the middle-of-nowhere may not have that joy, and is stuck, and alone.”

Julian Jetson posing with an image of Superman fighting Nazis | Mike Ciriaco

For those of you who missed this year’s SDCC and its cavalcade of queer rebellion, we’ve snatched some of our favorite comic book culture cosplay lewks that put the “Homo” in Homo Superior.