'Avengers' gay character wasn't meant to be 'put on a pestal' | Mashable

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• MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE
• 'AVENGERS' GAY CHARACTER 'WASN'T MEANT TO BE PUT ON A PESTAL,' SAYS MARVEL PRINT
• ‘AVENGERS’ DIRECTORS HT THAT MARVEL WILL UNVEIL A GAY CHARACTER
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR

While the small moment Endgame isn't much, the Rso brothers said they still believe 's important.“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. K is gay. 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. A clearly gay character has fally arrived the Marvel universe -- although many sual viewers may miss the historic Rso, who directed Avengers: Endgame wh his brother Anthony Rso, portrays a gay man the blockbter, reports Deadle.

"It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them. Several mor characters, like Thor: Ragnarok's Valkyrie (Tsa Thompson) and Black Panther's Ayo (Florence Kasumba) and Okoye (Danai Gurira), were reportedly -gayed through leted scen.

‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE

Anthony Rso told Deadle that the cln of the gay character reprented a step toward clivy that reflected the real world. "Marvel has yet to troduce a clearly LGBTQ superhero -- although the stud is reportedly searchg for a gay actor to portray one.

A Marvel executive, Victoria Alonso, told Variety at the Capta Marvel premiere that "the world is ready" for a gay superhero.

'AVENGERS' GAY CHARACTER 'WASN'T MEANT TO BE PUT ON A PESTAL,' SAYS MARVEL PRINT

This post clus one mor spoiler for Avengers: the news broke that Avengers: Endgame would clu the MCU’s first openly gay character, the natural assumptn was to image… an actual character. Endgame’s gay character is actually a meo om an unnamed civilian, troduced for a sgle scene where he talks about gog on a date wh a man.

Oh, and this guy is played by the film’s -director Joe the scene featur a gay character a sual, realistic way, also feels tokenistic. After years of mands for LGBTQ reprentatn, Marvel rpond wh a new character whose entire role is to be visibly gay for 90 sends.

”“It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them.

‘AVENGERS’ DIRECTORS HT THAT MARVEL WILL UNVEIL A GAY CHARACTER

”The Rsos may have had to ph to clu a gay character their fal film, but the “reprentatn is really important” le feels a ltle cluels the ntext of their stg choice.

The film’s promotnal tour also over-emphasized Okoye’s prence to a misleadg gree, implyg that she has a signifint role when she only appears for a few ’s first gay character was always gog to attract a lot of scti, and ’s unrstandable for people to have mixed feelgs about how this panned out.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

In addn to wrappg up 22 films worth of stori, Endgame manag to quietly slip the first nonilly gay character of the Marvel films. Co-director Joe Rso plays a gay man early on the film, as one of the members of Capta Ameri’s support group.

It’s a quiet moment, and you would almost miss was gay were not for Rso’s e of the pronoun “he” when referrg to his date. Rso said of the scene, “Reprentatn is really important, was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them. Rso followed up by sayg, “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 … We’re tryg to reprent everyone everyday life.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

” Marvel has long herald a new queer future for the MCU, most specifilly their search for a gay Asian male lead the upg Eternals movie. So took Marvel 22 movi and the elimatn of half the populatn to fd a sgle gay man their cematic universe? Marvel: Me: Did you list him as Gay Character #1?

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

At The (@brockwilbur) April 27, 2019 marvel makg their “first openly gay” character a mor character is so disappotg — rhia ‎⧗ ? (@CHAVEZBABS) April 23, 2019 Feel like Thanos didn't snap half the universe to ath for an unnamed gay character played by a straight(?

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

— Charl Pulliam-Moore (@CharlPulliam) April 25, 2019 Omg there’s a gay character @Avengers – he’s one scene and don’t have a name but still..

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Spoiler: ’s not Thanos — Andreas Samuelson (@andy_samuelson) April 23, 2019 pta marvel didn’t cut her hair that short for marvel to make joe sso the first non gay character mcu #AvengersEndGameSpoiler #AvengersEndgame — 99% unsure | all the spoilers (@vibraniummm) April 26, 2019 What did you thk of Rso’s meo Endgame? However, we do have to nsir that Marvel produc ntent for a global dience and there are still untri where pictg acts of homosexualy, even to the pot of kissg someone of the same genr, is nsired offensive. That's the ma reason why we haven't had a gay uple as the ma characters the 'Star Wars' movi (we're lookg at you, Poe and Fn) and that's also why Marvel is unlikely to go the full-on LGBT route wh the Young Avengers, at least not if they want the team to show up the movi.

“Avengers: Endgame” directors Joe and Anthony Rso hted that a gay Marvel character will be intified  a future stallment  the movie duo was discsg Joe Rso’s on-screen role the film durg an appearance on “EW Morng Live, ” which the director nfirmed as “the first openly gay character, ” Entertament Weekly reported Wednday.

”But as far as who he was talkg about, Joe remaed fairly HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP“We’re gonna fd out, ” he said, whout namg anyone particular when asked by a host “who else is gay?

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

”“There is a gay character g up one of their films, ” Joe said, addg that he expects Marvel will make an announcement on the subject, acrdg to Entertament Studs Print Kev Feige shed light on the topic last year, the outlet noted. Two rol, “both on you’ve seen and on you haven’t seen, ” would be intified as gay, he said at the time. The assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars has bee the first male ach ever the NFL -- or Amerin men's pro sports altogether -- to publicly e out as gay.

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