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From Iceman to Hulklg and Moondragon, Marvel boasts a whole array of openly gay characters who would be smash-hs the MCU.

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MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY COUPLE ARRIV A NEW ETERNALS TRAILER

New Marvel actor, Haaz Sleiman, has spoken about how he is brgg the first openly gay uple and LGBTQ+ fay to the MCU * marvel gay couple *

None other than Phastos and his the latt trailer for Marvel’s highly anticipated new film Eternals, we get one of our first real glimps of the first gay uple to appear one of the ics juggernt’s films.

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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. * marvel gay couple *

”NPR also reports that Joe Rso, who -directed Avengers: Endgame wh his brother Anthony, briefly appeared the film as an unnamed gay man. Phastos will be Marvel’s first openly gay character (wh a name) to appear an MCU film.

In Febary, Sleiman, who me out as gay 2017, told NewNowNext that Eternals will feature “a betiful, very movg kiss. Brgg the eponymo hero, and their fo, the Deviants, to the Marvel Cematic Universe, Eternals will also see the MCU’s first LGBTQ+ fay and openly gay uple but the Marvel movie. Henry’s Phastos will be the first openly gay superhero the on-screen Marvel Universe, wh Sleiman playg his hband the MCU film.

MARVEL’S FIRST GAY COUPLE, ARNIE AND MICHAEL: A LOVE STORY

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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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Say hello to Arnold and Michael! This article tak a look back at one of Marvel's very first gay upl. * marvel gay couple *

It was big news when mors start to break that Marvel would tly, fally get a gay superhero.

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So far we know that Brian Tyree Henry, who is playg Phastos the film, will be the first gay Marvel superhero wh an onscreen love tert. "I jt shot a Marvel film wh the first openly gay superhero, The Eternals, " Sleiman told New Now Next a recent terview.

"I'm married to the gay superhero Phastos, played by Atlanta's Brian Tyree Henry, and we reprent a gay fay and have a child. " Wow, Hollywood's first openly total bottom, gettg that big screen time, playg the hband of Marvel's first gay superhero a big-screen project. 9 The Marrs Seri Has Gay & Bisexual Characters.

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Marvel jt released a new ‘Eternals’ promo vio that featur the first scene showg the MCU’s first gay superhero actn. * marvel gay couple *

Iceman, who remas wh the team until the twentieth issue, me out as gay 2015. 2 Young Avengers Has Gay, Lbian & Bisexual Characters. Created by Allan Heberg, a gay man himself, Young Avengers is one of the Marvel superteams wh the biggt LGBTQ+ reprentatn.

Its first roster clus Hulklg and Wicn, two young gay boys who soon bee one of Marvel's most stable relatnships.

There have been several LGBTQ+ superhero the X-Men roster, such as Bobby Drake, a gay man, Magik, a bisexual woman, or even Jsie Drake, a transgenr girl, among many others. 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.

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From Wonr Woman to Northstar, here are some of the most groundbreakg LGBTQ characters and gay superhero Marvel and DC Comics non. * marvel gay couple *

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. Iceman had been fightg alongsi the X-Men the ics for s before he stunned dienc by g out as gay, but fans quickly accepted his sexualy. Wh Marvel Studs hopg to fix the X-Men film anchise after acquirg om Fox, this uld be a good ll for the MCU’s first gay character.

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A teaser for Marvel's Eternals troduc the MCU's first onscreen gay uple wh Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) and his unnamed hband played by Haaz Sleiman. * marvel gay couple *

Viv’s sexualy hasn’t been nfirmed the ics, but she's kissed Ironheart and was strongly suggted that she’s eher gay or asexual when she said, “an attractn to boys is nowhere wh me. ” The MCU uld easily portray the character as gay. There was speculatn that Hercul would be a lead  The Eternals when Marvel announced that the film would star a gay lead, but the reference was stead to Phastos.

Phyla-Vell was first intified as gay when she admted to and acted on her attractn towards Moondragon. In any discsn of who will be the first openly gay superhero the MCU, ’s important to mentn the first openly gay superhero Marvel Comics. Northstar was a landmark character for ic book history bee he was one of the first gay superhero, the first to e out a Marvel book, and 2012, he beme the first character to have a same-sex weddg a mastream ic.

Phastos may be half of the first openly gay relatnship the Marvel Cematic Universe, but Negasonic Teenage Warhead was part of the first gay superhero uple all of superhero cema several years earlier. The two shared the first gay kiss between major characters a Marvel ic back X-Force #45 while Rictor was huntg for Multiple Man New England.

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