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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
From Wonr Woman to Northstar, here are some of the most groundbreakg LGBTQ characters and gay superhero Marvel and DC Comics non. * gay superhero actors *
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.
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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. 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.
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 *
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.
HOW ‘ETERNALS’ ESTABLISH THE MCU’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO AND SAME-SEX COUPLE A MOVIE: ‘IT’S LIFE-SAVG’
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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.
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.
"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 *
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.
THE GAY SUPERHERO ‘ETERNALS’ IS ‘WHAT AUDIENC HAVE BEEN WAG FOR,’ SAYS GLAAD (GUT COLUMN)
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. 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.