Watch: Here's How 90s Ss Treated Gay Characters

Contents:

• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
• MARVEL IS DEBUTG A GAY SPIR-MAN
• DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)
• LADI, IS GAY TO WEAR A SU?

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS

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MARVEL IS DEBUTG A GAY SPIR-MAN

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DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)

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LADI, IS GAY TO WEAR A SU?

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Haaz Sleiman and Brian Tyree Henry play Marvel's first gay uple on screen Eternals. Marvel Comics’ universe-hoppg Edge of Spir-Verse #5, which hs stor September, will feature three new metaverse versns of Spir-Man — cludg the beloved character’s first gay rnatn, known as scrib the character as a “not-so-d mannered fashn signer at Van Dyne [Indtri]” — the pany owned by Ja Van Dyne, aka the Wasp — who “gets spir-powers and shows a very different kd of Spir-Slayer.