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Aaron Fischer, a gay teenager, will take on the mantle The Uned Stat of Capta Ameri, markg the character’s 80th anniversary <br> * marvel first gay wedding *

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.

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“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.

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.

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The creative team behd Marvel Comics' Astonishg X-Men talks about tacklg the first same-sex superhero weddg and the future of the dtry's origal gay hero. * marvel first gay wedding *

Aaron Fischer, a gay teenager, will be the first, the new limed seri, released scribed Fischer, who will be the “Capta Ameri of the Railways”, as “a fearls teen who stepped up to protect fellow naways and the unhoed”, wh his but timed to ci wh Pri Month the US. “As a transgenr person, I am happy to be able to prent an openly gay person who admir Capta Ameri and fights agast evil to help those who are almost visible to society, ” said Bazaldua. ”Marvel reportedly had a “No Gays the Marvel Universe” policy the 1980s and, the 1990s, placed an “Adults Only” label on any ics featurg proment LGBTQ+ characters rponse to nservative protts.

The publisher’s first gay character, Northstar of the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight, was planned as such by creator John Byrne 1979, but his sexualy was not revealed on the page until recent years, Marvel has moved to diversify s st of superhero. And 2015, Iceman, one of the origal X-Men created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby back 1963, me out as gay. Related: ‘HSM’ Director Confirms Popular Character is Ined Gay.

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Longtime boyiends Wicn and Hulklg–two members of the Marvel Comics superhero team the Young Avengers–jt ma a breakthrough: they beme the first gay superhero uple to get married the history of the publishg label.

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8 Northstar And His Human Hband Beme Marvel's First Gay Marriage. Marjorie Liu's Astonishg X-Men #51 is a landmark issue due to s weddg between Alpha Flight hero Northstar and Kyle, the first gay marriage on ic pag. The Rollg Stonpublicized the news as “Marvel Comics Hosts First Gay Weddg Astonishg X-men”.

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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.

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In 1992 he was clared to be gay the pag of Alpha Flight # 106 and is nsired as Marvel Comics’ first openly gay character. 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.

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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.

It should also be noted that they are not the first gay uple that is married ics.

In an article by Matt Moore , the news is tled as “Marvel Comics Gay Weddg: Marvel Plans Weddg for Gay Hero Northstar”.

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