A ltle more than a year after troducg the seri’ first gay character, Archie Comics is celebratg s first same-sex weddg. In Sept. 2010 the seri troduced s first openly gay character, Kev Keller, to much excement (and some prott) an issue of Veroni.
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- MARVEL COMICS HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG ‘ASTONISHG X-MEN’
- MARVEL MAK HISTORY WH ITS FIRST GAY WEDDG BETWEEN TWO SUPERHERO
- JT MARRIED: ARCHIE COMICS’ FIRST GAY CHARACTER WEDS DOCTOR BE
- MARVEL COMICS HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG ASTONISHG X-MEN
- ARCHIE COMICS FEATUR FIRST EVER GAY WEDDG
MARVEL COMICS HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG ‘ASTONISHG X-MEN’
Marvel will make ic book history as publish the first ever gay superhero weddg Empyre #5 next week. Excelsr! * first gay wedding in comics *
Back 1992, Marvel Comics ma headl by revealg that Northstar, a Canadian superhero associated wh Alpha Flight and the X-Men, was gay. “When gay marriage beme legal New York State, raised obv qutns sce most of our hero ri New York State. Northstar is the first openly gay character ics and he’s been a longterm relatnship wh his partner Kyle so the big qutn was – how would this change his relatnship?, ” says Marvel Comics edor--chief Axel Alonso.
“Here are two people, tryg to live their liv – mutant and gay, black and gay – empowered their own ways, but also ge-dwellers, ” says Liu. The tensns will rm Liu’s Astonishg X-Men stori gog forward, but Alonso says the uple will also have to nont homophobia om Northstar’s teammat.
Although Northstar of the X-Men married his partner, Kyle Jadu, back 2012, Jadu is not a characters Midnighter and Apollo hold the distctn of beg the first gay uple to tie the knot the 29th and fal issue of The Authory, which was published shortly before the seri’ ncellatn 2002.
MARVEL MAK HISTORY WH ITS FIRST GAY WEDDG BETWEEN TWO SUPERHERO
* first gay wedding in comics *
Wicn and Hulklg were first troduced to the Marvel Universe as part of the Young Avengers seri 2005 and soon beme the first out gay teenagers the publisher’s history. Related: ‘HSM’ Director Confirms Popular Character is Ined Gay.
JT MARRIED: ARCHIE COMICS’ FIRST GAY CHARACTER WEDS DOCTOR BE
More than jt Marvel's first openly gay superhero, Northstar has a fascatg history that has helped him build que the fanbase. * first gay wedding in comics *
A ltle more than a year after troducg the seri’ first gay character, Archie Comics is celebratg s first same-sex weddg. 2010 the seri troduced s first openly gay character, Kev Keller, to much excement (and some prott) an issue of Veroni. Rather than make a big to-do about his sexualy, he rather matter-of-factly tells Jughead he’s not terted Veroni bee (sadly, for her) he’s gay.
(MORE: Archie Comics Introduc First Gay Character). Keller has been treated like any other heterosexual character the seri, wh ups and down his datg life, a rich, tailed fay life, and reer aspiratns—which has been praised by the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn and rears alike.
I appld Archie for creatg a character where beg gay isn’t a pejorative and showg that ’s possible for the Riverdale characters to teract wh Kev as they would teract wh any other person.
MARVEL COMICS HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG ASTONISHG X-MEN
The Rollg Stonpublicized the news as “Marvel Comics Hosts First Gay Weddg Astonishg X-men”. Northstar, Marvel’s first openly gay superhero, marri his longtime partner Kyle the panels of Astonishg X-men #51 June. Twenty years after his ntroversial beg of beg gay 1992, he is back aga the headl as he propos to his long iend Kyle Jadu Astonishg X-men #50.
“”When gay marriage beme legal New York State, raised obv qutns sce most of our hero ri New York State. Northstar is the first openly gay character ics and he’s been a longterm relatnship wh his partner Kyle so the big qutn was – how would this change his relatnship? The uple will have to nont homophobia among Nothstar’s teammat.
In 1992 he was clared to be gay the pag of Alpha Flight # 106 and is nsired as Marvel Comics’ first openly gay character.
ARCHIE COMICS FEATUR FIRST EVER GAY WEDDG
The ic was so inic that was ducted the Gaylactic Hall of Fame. Major Mapleleaf shared that his son died of AIDS and that “bee he was gay, he didn’t rate”. Northstar cid to reveal to the public that he was gay and hoped that as a Canadian hero that the public would be aware of HIV preventn.
In that issue, Northstar me to nflict whthe homophobe Plie Provenzano who was also a mutant. Their dynamics, however, is different bee they are one of the few portrayals of gay upl superhero ics and where liv will be picted even after marriage.