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

Contents:

• 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPER-POWERED CHARACTER
• "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
• LOOKG BACK AT THE MISTREATMENT OF MARVEL’S FIRST GAY COMIC SUPERHERO
• WAR EPTS OVER NEW MARVEL BLOCKBTER’S GAY SUPERHERO
• THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY
• 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' DIRECTORS SAY MARVEL WILL REVEAL ONE OF ITS CHARACTERS IS GAY UPG FILM
• MARVEL'S THE ETERNALS NFIRMS OPENLY GAY CHARACTER: 'HE'S MARRIED, HE'S GOT A FAY'
• “ETERNALS” FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPERHERO MARVEL CEMATIC UNIVERSE
• MARVEL'S PHASTOS: BRIAN TYREE HENRY'S OPENLY GAY THE ETERNALS CHARACTER EXPLAED

5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPER-POWERED CHARACTER

K is gay.

He's not the first queer MCU character; he's the first out, super-powered MCU character In 2019's Avengers: Endgame, -director Joe Rso played an unnamed gay man a brief scene at a support group. Pl, there's sr of background players var crowd scen that have pged my personal gaydar. Capta Marvel actrs Gemma Chan will also play a new character the MCU as of the new hero will end up as an LGBT character is unclear, but there were mors that Marvel Studs was seekg an openly gay actor for the role.

“We wanted to be sual, wh the fact that the character is gay tied to the fabric of the storytellg and reprentg what everyday life is, ” Joe told Deadle. A gay superhero parody of BYU's Brigham Young statue (2017) (image by Pastelopapa via Wikimedia).

"AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE

Marvel’s first gay superhero is an amalgamatn of straight assumptns.

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

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.

WAR EPTS OVER NEW MARVEL BLOCKBTER’S GAY SUPERHERO

Northstar (Jean-Pl Bebier) is probably the most famo (and the first Marvel ics history) openly gay superhero many dienc might never have heard of. Back then, ic would not have allowed an openly gay character, so creator John Byrne had hts through meetg a ‘special iend’ named Raymon Belmon. Bryne even went on to fend his actns, sayg that “there need to be gays ics bee there are gays real life.

Wh hts of mutants and the X-Men jog the MCU soon the form of The Mutants, perhaps Marvel should give this historil gay character a chance on the big screen. Jean Grey reads a teenaged time-displaced Iceman and outs him as gay. If this were ma to a gay Marvel film would surely be one of the worst g-out films of all time.

THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY

List of characters who intify as gay or lbian (attracted to someone of the same genr). The Comics Co Authory banned any suggtns of homosexualy ic books until 1989 Ameri, and wasn't until the 2000s that LGBT characters started to feature more stand-alone stori.

Northstar, real name Jean-Pl Bebier, is one of the first openly gay characters Amerin ic book history. The character buted durg the height of the AIDS sre and was explicly stated as gay 1992's Alpha Flight #106.

'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' DIRECTORS SAY MARVEL WILL REVEAL ONE OF ITS CHARACTERS IS GAY UPG FILM

However, the wrers scrapped that ia and cid to pursue an openly gay relatnship between the characters. Bobby Drake's sexualy was never addrsed then, though he has sce e out as gay after an altertn wh Jean Grey 2015's All-New X-Men. A teenaged versn of Iceman who has been pulled out of time has his md read by the telepath, outg that he is gay.

MARVEL'S THE ETERNALS NFIRMS OPENLY GAY CHARACTER: 'HE'S MARRIED, HE'S GOT A FAY'

Apollo is another of Marvel's first openly gay characters, origally butg the Stormwatch seri. Durg a drastic DC reboot, his character was revealed to be gay Jam Robson's Earth-Two seri.

Jam Gunn, who directed the Guardians of the Galaxy films, elud to gay characters wh the MCU the past.

“You know, somebody asked me will there be any gay characters Marvel movi, and what I meant was there’s a lot of characters the MCU and very few of them have we lved to what their sexuali are — whether ’s gay or straight or bisexual, ” Gunn said. "So, I image there are probably gay characters the Marvel Universe, you know. Actor Haaz Sleiman, who me out as gay 2017, plays character Ben “Eternals” who is the hband of superhero Phastos.

“ETERNALS” FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPERHERO MARVEL CEMATIC UNIVERSE

“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.

MARVEL'S PHASTOS: BRIAN TYREE HENRY'S OPENLY GAY THE ETERNALS CHARACTER EXPLAED

But as Avengers: Endgame reflectns ntue to e out, there is headle after headle about Marvel's first openly gay character. After some light vtigatn, turns out that the first openly gay character is a glorified meo by director Joe Rso. The First Openly Gay Character qutn is a support group wh Capta Ameri after The Snap.