A new trailer nfirmed that Eternals will feature Phastos, a gay character played by Brian Tyree Henry, who's married wh a kid. Never heard of him? You're not alone.
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- MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY COUPLE ARRIV A NEW ETERNALS TRAILER
- MARVEL MIGHT USE NEW SERI TO INTRODUCE GAY SUPER HERO COUPLE - INSI THE MAGIC
- MARVEL COMICS REVEALS EARTH'S FIRST GAY SUPER-COUPLE
- 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPER-POWERED CHARACTER
MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY COUPLE ARRIV A NEW ETERNALS TRAILER
Marvel's most proment gay Avengers tie the knot a new special g this fall. Hulklg and Wicn marry Empyre: Avengers Aftermath. * marvel gay power couple *
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. 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.
”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 MIGHT USE NEW SERI TO INTRODUCE GAY SUPER HERO COUPLE - INSI THE MAGIC
A new MCU seri is reportedly gog to troduce some new gay super hero that might end up beg Marvel's new power uple. * marvel gay power couple *
That clus bookish werewolf Vivisector and whe rapper stretch-man Phat: the uple origally got volved for publicy but later realized they're both gay and love. Gay mutant royalty Northstar ma ephemeral headl as one of the first openly out supers, but he ma pop culture history when he married longtime boyiend Kyle Jadu.
Meanwhile, the parallel Ultimate Marvel universe, gay hero Northstar and Coloss, seem to be well on their way to beg an em. Alright, former Army Litenant Kev Keller, the first openly gay character long-nng Archie Comics, don't have any powers, but his g out was a huge tone for the kid-skewg seri, so we're gog to say that his social impact and ary history, as well as his nate fabulons, make him pretty super. 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 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.
MARVEL COMICS REVEALS EARTH'S FIRST GAY SUPER-COUPLE
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+ 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) 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.
5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPER-POWERED CHARACTER
In Astonishg X-Men #51, their weddg secured their place Marvel history as the first major ic book pictn of a gay marriage. Northstar and Kyle may have been Marvel’s premier gay uple, but Young Avengers members Wicn and Hulklg are the most well-known.
When you factor that, beyond beg gay, Wicn has magic powers and Hulklg is an alien, you know that their love is gog to have to prove self time and aga. Ayo then went on to -lead a ic tled Black Panther: World of Wakanda, by Roxanne Gay, Ta-Nehsi Coat, Alha Martez, Roberto Poggi, and Rachelle Rosenberg. Anole, whose real name is Victor Borkowski, is a gay man who is also a mutant and was created by Nunz DeFilippis, Christa Weir, and Keron Grant.
9 The Marrs Seri Has Gay & Bisexual Characters. Iceman, who remas wh the team until the twentieth issue, me out as gay 2015. 2 Young Avengers Has Gay, Lbian & Bisexual Characters.