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MARVEL’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO DEFEATS EVIL, MAK HISTORY ETERNALS TRAILER

The Eternals trailer offers the brieft of glimps at Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry), the first gay superhero a major Hollywood anchise. Dcribed as an “telligent ventor” an acpanyg summary, the character will reportedly break ground by sharg the film stud’s first onscreen gay kiss wh his hband, played by out, gay Lebane actor Haaz an terview, Sleiman said the climactic smooch was an emotnal moment on set, pecially given s importance to LGBTQ+ reprentatn. Actor Haaz Sleiman, who me out as gay 2017, plays character Ben “Eternals” who is the hband of superhero Phastos.

“Eternals” also hosts the most diverse lp of any Marvel movie, cludg not only a first openly gay fay, but actors of many different ethnic backgrounds and the first af superhero. This also isn’t Marvel’s first attempt at diversifyg s films; an openly gay character was clud “Avengers: Endgame, ” and the star character of “Loki, ” a seri on Disney Pl, is bisexual. The Marvel Cematic Universe (MCU) was fairly slow troducg LGBTQ+ characters —though seeg as even the most chaste reprentatns of queer love get the films banned some untri, you n see why they would be reticent.Doctor Strange and The Multiverse of Madns actually breaks the rerd for the most lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and/or queer characters an MCU property wh three.

WAR EPTS OVER NEW MARVEL BLOCKBTER’S GAY SUPERHERO

However, seeg as two of them do not talk, and one never mentns their sexualy out loud, clearly there is still some work to be done when to LGBTQ+ reprentatn.The MCU is of urse fairly sexls general, but any mentns of queer sexuali have tend to be very brief, the better to allow Disney to easily cut out the scen more homophobic markets. "Grievg man"Avengers: Endgame ma the mistake of tmpetg that had the MCU's first gay character before the film me out. Phastos is also the anchise's first out gay superhero, and the pair share the anchise's first gay kiss (and one of the few kiss general the MCU).Though his partner Ben do not get much screen time, his stg mak a bold statement.

Actor Haaz Sleiman is an out gay man himself, and was born the Uned Arab Emirat.

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