In the ramp up to the premiere of Batman v. His first piece in the “Superman Kissing Batman” series debuted at the Imitate Modern gallery in London in 2014. “If you were in need of being saved from something, would it matter if the person who could be your hero was gay or not?” “It is sometimes more heroic to simply stand up for your beliefs, stand up for equality,” he continued in an interview with the Huffington Post. Simmons, who has exhibited his work in London, Geneva, Tampa, New York and Los Angeles, said that he wanted to create the pieces in order to start a dialogue on equality “by taking the two most alpha male superheroes and placing them in this embrace.”
