"Avengers: Endgame" Featur Marvel's First Openly Gay Character

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• "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
• MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU

"AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE

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A clearly gay character has fally arrived the Marvel universe -- although many sual viewers may miss the historic Rso, who directed Avengers: Endgame wh his brother Anthony Rso, portrays a gay man the blockbter, reports Deadle.

"It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them. Several mor characters, like Thor: Ragnarok's Valkyrie (Tsa Thompson) and Black Panther's Ayo (Florence Kasumba) and Okoye (Danai Gurira), were reportedly -gayed through leted scen. Anthony Rso told Deadle that the cln of the gay character reprented a step toward clivy that reflected the real world.

MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR

"Marvel has yet to troduce a clearly LGBTQ superhero -- although the stud is reportedly searchg for a gay actor to portray one. A Marvel executive, Victoria Alonso, told Variety at the Capta Marvel premiere that "the world is ready" for a gay superhero. Wai nfirmed that K is gay an Instagram Live, but said he won't get a romantic tert anytime soon as he was once "eply love and lost that love along the le" and "don't feel brave enough to fd love aga.

Wicn (who is nonilly gay) and Speed (who is nonilly bisexual) are Wanda and Visn's tw sons who grow up to bee queer members of the superhero group Young Avengers. The first gay MCU character to have an onscreen kiss didn't appear until Eternals 2021, thirteen years after Iron Man kicked off the MCU. His sexualy is never nfirmed, but as he's played by Firstman, wears one earrg, and referenc Mulan and The Devil Wears Prada, we're pretty sure he's gay.

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15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU

Avengers: Endgame gave the first openly gay character the Marvel Cematic Universe, but left a lot of fans (who have spent the last wag to see a gay superhero jo the Avengers) pretty unrwhelmed. Here's a selectn of openly gay Marvel characters who serve their time to she the MCU. While many fans hope that Marvel Studs ntu to diversify the superhero they brg to live-actn, Eternals recently took a signifint step forward by prentg Phastos as part of the first openly gay superhero uple the MCU.