Marvel Comics Hosts First Gay Weddg ‘Astonishg X-Men’ – Rollg Stone

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Marvel's most proment gay Avengers tie the knot a new special g this fall. Hulklg and Wicn marry Empyre: Avengers Aftermath.

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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.

“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.

“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.

MARVEL MAK HISTORY WH ITS FIRST GAY WEDDG BETWEEN TWO SUPERHERO

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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They were Marvel’s first out gay teenage hero, and their first out gay hero uple as well. It should be noted that this is the first marriage between two gay hero Marvel Comics, but not two gay characters.

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