Y and Negasonic Teenage Warhead are the first openly gay superhero cema. But Deadpool 2's simply taken a small first step.
Contents:
- 'DEADPOOL 2' IS THE GAYT SUPERHERO MOVIE YET. THAT'S NOT SAYG MUCH.
- GLAAD CHAMPNS DEADPOOL 2'S GAY SUPERHERO ROMANCE
- ‘DEADPOOL 2’ SHOULD HAVE BEEN A WHOLE LOT GAYER
'DEADPOOL 2' IS THE GAYT SUPERHERO MOVIE YET. THAT'S NOT SAYG MUCH.
The openly gay choreographer has bee a viral sensatn for his YouTube vios which he and other men fiercely dance to the diva disgraphy of Beyoncé, Rihanna, and fellow ins — heels no ls.
GLAAD CHAMPNS DEADPOOL 2'S GAY SUPERHERO ROMANCE
) Deadpool 2 checks off two box: “The film ntas a character that is intifiably lbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgenr” and “That character mt not be solely or predomantly fed by their sexual orientatn or genr inty. ” Apparently, gay characters are already the MCU, acrdg to Guardians of the Galaxy director Jam Gunn.
Wh Disney’s live-actn Bety and the Beast, Rsia threatened to pull the film om theaters bee media had reported Josh Gad’s LeFou would e out as gay.
‘DEADPOOL 2’ SHOULD HAVE BEEN A WHOLE LOT GAYER
The first explicly gay superhero Marvel Comics was North Star, a mutant and X-Men off-shoot om Alpha Flight #7 2011.
Sce then, one of the origal X-Men, Iceman/Bobby Drake, was revealed to be gay last year’s Iceman seri. The scene was subversive to the mastream, and enarg to many young and alienated LGBTQ geeks, bee was an obv metaphor for gay pri—and the poison of homophobia—durg the height of the Bh Years when gay bashg and homophobia went very mastream.