Lookg Back at the Mistreatment of Marvel's First Gay Comic Superhero

Contents:

• MARVEL COMICS HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG ‘ASTONISHG X-MEN’
• LOOKG BACK AT THE MISTREATMENT OF MARVEL’S FIRST GAY COMIC SUPERHERO
• MARVEL'S FIRST MAJOR GAY CHARACTER DERV A STAND-ALONE COMIC
• NORTHSTAR: MARVEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HERO
• GAY HERO: NORTHSTAR COM OUT OF CLOSET -- COMIC-BOOK FIGURE REVEALS HOMOSEXUALY
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• NORTHSTAR, MARVEL’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO

MARVEL COMICS HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG ‘ASTONISHG X-MEN’

Back 1992, Marvel Comics ma headl by revealg that Northstar, a Canadian superhero associated wh Alpha Flight and the X-Men, was gay.

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LOOKG BACK AT THE MISTREATMENT OF MARVEL’S FIRST GAY COMIC SUPERHERO

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. A gay superhero parody of BYU's Brigham Young statue (2017) (image by Pastelopapa via Wikimedia).

MARVEL'S FIRST MAJOR GAY CHARACTER DERV A STAND-ALONE COMIC

Marvel’s first gay superhero is an amalgamatn of straight assumptns. Northstar was troduced 1979 as the first gay character the superhero genre. Bis men g and out of his home, or lgerg shirtls the background of panels, Northstar was d through the unique perspective of how straight men typilly view gay men.

Northstar’s publitn history shows a cross sectn of 40 years of the Uned Stat’s mastream view of the gay muny. In the 1980s he was portrayed as dismissive of women to the pot of misogyny, while the ghts, gay men were so often portrayed fictn as the gay bt iend that Northstar was portrayed almost solely the pany of women. His backstory evolved as homosexuals emerged om enomic dispary: Where once he was an unattend mor, he beme a wealthy, privileged man as the natnal narrative surroundg queer youth gradually expand.

Perhaps seemed that to keep the first out gay man was a potls exercise, pecially one so mired outdated stereotyp.

NORTHSTAR: MARVEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HERO

We’ve put together this list to troduce some of the most fluential gay superhero, rangg om groundbreakg figur like Marvel’s Northstar to characters like Harley Qun who only me out the past few years.The 12 most inic gay superhero1) Wonr WomanDiana of Themyscira has a long and storied history as a queer in. (CC-BY-SA)2) MidnighterPossibly the bt-known gay superhero ic book circl, Midnighter was created as a parody of Batman, startg off the adult-rated Wildstorm ic Stormwatch. As one of the origal X-Men, he was portrayed as straight for s beg outed as gay 2015.

Thanks to the X-Men ics’ love of time travel hijks, there are actually two versns of this character at the moment: A teenage Iceman who realized he was gay after Jean Grey read his md, and an adult versn who stayed the closet and dated women for years, but me out after beg nonted by his younger self.

GAY HERO: NORTHSTAR COM OUT OF CLOSET -- COMIC-BOOK FIGURE REVEALS HOMOSEXUALY

The recent Iceman solo seri foced on his life after this revelatn, earng a mixed rponse bee while ’s great to see a gay character gettg their own ic, his emotnal arc is a rather old-fashned g-out story. She first appeared as Batman’s love tert the 1950s, shortly after the publitn of Sctn of the Innocent, a book that acced Batman of homosexual propaganda. In recent years she was rewrten to be gay herself, a ntroversial cisn that led to some problems of s own.While her ic’s creators wanted her to marry her girliend, DC nixed the cisn by sayg hero “shouldn’t have happy personal liv,” a dub statement that sounds pretty ridiculo the ntext of, say, Superman.

After years of hts, he me out as gay 1992. LGBTQ and gay superhero list:Wonr Woman (DC Comics).

Marvel's first major gay hero has an awome power set and has been a member of the X-Men, although he has never had his own tle.

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

His character was tend to be gay sce his ceptn, but was not explicly revealed to be so until 1992's Alpha Flight #106 (by Stt Lobll and Mark Pacella).

Northstar officially me out as homosexual 1992, years after his character ially buted.

A fight ensu between Major Mapleleaf and Northstar, who exclaims to the stranger that he don't need to be lectured on the plight of homosexuals, as no one knows them better than he. Durg this time perd, the disease was misunrstood, and Northstar addrs this by explag that is not exclive to gay people. In a way, the Major is pleadg wh Northstar to e his stat as a superhero and ex-Olympian to be an advote and reprentative for homosexuals.

NORTHSTAR, MARVEL’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO

Durg his time wh the X-Men, Northstar beme the mentor of Anole, a gay teenage mutant wh reptilian powers who later beme a member of the Young X-Men alongsi another gay teen, Graymalk. Northstar was the first major character to be openly gay the Marvel Universe, and he was also part of the first same-sex marriage picted by the publisher.

Northstar havg his own seri (possibly set at an earlier time when homosexualy was ls accepted) uld do a lot of good for people alg wh their own inti. That issue is Alpha Flight #106, the first time a mastream ic hero “me out” as gay! Marvel’s “Don’t Say Gay” Policy.