From Wonr Woman to Northstar, here are some of the most groundbreakg LGBTQ characters and gay superhero Marvel and DC Comics non.
Contents:
- 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
- WAR EPTS OVER NEW MARVEL BLOCKBTER’S GAY SUPERHERO
- HOW ‘ETERNALS’ ESTABLISH THE MCU’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO AND SAME-SEX COUPLE A MOVIE: ‘IT’S LIFE-SAVG’
- "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
- THE GAY SUPERHERO ‘ETERNALS’ IS ‘WHAT AUDIENC HAVE BEEN WAG FOR,’ SAYS GLAAD (GUT COLUMN)
15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
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Photo cred: 20th Century FoxY, Loki (Tom Hiddlton) nfirmed he’s had “a b of both” on his self-tled Disney+ seri, but so far, the only nonilly gay character the MCU is Bryan Tyree Henry’s Phastos “Eternals. The “Arrow” star wrote an say last year which he said that g out as gay a 2016 EW terview did negatively affect his reer. Now, the only dns I get are for gay characters, which rema sparse.
In 2020, he said that g out as gay 2012 did hurt his reer. If I don’t work bee of a flawed, racist and homophobic system, then was never the right thg for me.
” The Atralian actor me out as gay 2022, though he prevly said he liked guys and girls on Instagram back 2017. When Jordan’s Green Lantern buted 1959, Stt was relegated to an alternate universe and, over the s, he’s retired, returned to crime-fightg, been tossed limbo, bee an elr statman, and been rebooted as a young gay crimefighter on yet another alternate Earth.
WAR EPTS OVER NEW MARVEL BLOCKBTER’S GAY SUPERHERO
From Iceman to Hulklg and Moondragon, Marvel boasts a whole array of openly gay characters who would be smash-hs the MCU. * gay superhero actors *
This year, Green Lantern Alan Stt returned to his roots as an olr WWII-era hero who has “walked this Earth for a long time, much longer than should have been allotted,” as he said March’s “Infe Frontier” #0.In the same issue, penned by bisexual wrer Jam Tynn IV, the gray-haired rg-slger out as gay to his adult children, the superhero duo Ja and Obsidian.
We are jt fully-fledged superhero, who have an arc outsi of our transns.”Capta Ameri"The Uned Stat of Capta Ameri" ic book verMarvelIn June, Marvel’s “The Uned Stat of Capta Ameri” miseri hs stor, troducg rears to a variety of everyday people om all walks of life who’ve taken up the mantle of Capta Ameri to fend their muni.One is gay teenager Aaron Fischer, “the Capta Ameri of the Railways,” scribed a release as “a fearls teen who stepped up to protect fellow naways and the unhoed.”Joshua Tjillo, who wrote Fischer’s but, said he is “spired by hero of the queer muny: activists, lears and everyday folks phg for a better life.”Trans artist Jan Bazaldua said she really enjoyed signg the character.“I am happy to be able to prent an openly gay person who admir Capta Ameri and fights agast evil to help those who are almost visible to society,” Bazaldua said a statement. Matt Bomer has ma a reer of playg gay characters and changg reprentatn film through movi such as The Normal Heart, Boys the Band, and Amerin Horror Story. He n be seen often portrayg gay characters as he did wh Negative Man Doom Patrol.
He took on the role as the smart and loyal blue power ranger years before openly g out as gay. Rsel Tovey is no stranger to playg gay characters movi and tv shows. He has reprented gay rights by actg and projects for years cludg the 2014 film, Pri.
HOW ‘ETERNALS’ ESTABLISH THE MCU’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO AND SAME-SEX COUPLE A MOVIE: ‘IT’S LIFE-SAVG’
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It was only appropriate that he was st to be the openly gay hero the Ray CW's animated short Freedom Fighters: The Ray before dawng the helmet live-actn. His time as the Ray was short but seeg him act out a relatnship wh the openly gay actor Wentworth Miller returng as Capta Cold was heartwarmg to watch. The openly gay voice actor will be takg part the upg DC Pri 2022 as a wrer.
We’ve put together this list to troduce some of the most fluential gay superhero, rangg om groundbreakg figur like Marvel’s Northstar to characters like Harley Qun who only me out the past few 12 most inic gay superhero1) Wonr WomanDiana of Themyscira has a long and storied history as a queer in. (CC-BY-SA)2) MidnighterPossibly the bt-known gay superhero ic book circl, Midnighter was created as a parody of Batman, startg off the adult-rated Wildstorm ic Stormwatch.
As one of the origal X-Men, he was portrayed as straight for s beg outed as gay 2015. Thanks to the X-Men ics’ love of time travel hijks, there are actually two versns of this character at the moment: A teenage Iceman who realized he was gay after Jean Grey read his md, and an adult versn who stayed the closet and dated women for years, but me out after beg nonted by his younger self.
"AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
David Yost, who left the '90s show after facg harassment for beg gay, wr that the Lnsgate reboot "really stepped up to the plate." * gay superhero actors *
The recent Iceman solo seri foced on his life after this revelatn, earng a mixed rponse bee while ’s great to see a gay character gettg their own ic, his emotnal arc is a rather old-fashned g-out story. She first appeared as Batman’s love tert the 1950s, shortly after the publitn of Sctn of the Innocent, a book that acced Batman of homosexual propaganda. In recent years she was rewrten to be gay herself, a ntroversial cisn that led to some problems of s her ic’s creators wanted her to marry her girliend, DC nixed the cisn by sayg hero “shouldn’t have happy personal liv, ” a dub statement that sounds pretty ridiculo the ntext of, say, Superman.
After years of hts, he me out as gay 1992.
LGBTQ and gay superhero list:Wonr Woman (DC Comics). 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.
THE GAY SUPERHERO ‘ETERNALS’ IS ‘WHAT AUDIENC HAVE BEEN WAG FOR,’ SAYS GLAAD (GUT COLUMN)
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.
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.