In celebratn of Pri Month, let’s take a look at the key issu featurg Northstar, the first gay superhero. First Appearance Jean-Pl Bbier, a.k.a. Northstar, ma his but as a member of Alpha Flight on the fal page of X-Men #120. Created by John Byrne and Chris Claremont, the mutant was gifted wh super speed,
Contents:
- LOOKG BACK AT THE MISTREATMENT OF MARVEL’S FIRST GAY COMIC SUPERHERO
- MARVEL’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO DEFEATS EVIL, MAK HISTORY ETERNALS TRAILER
- DC INTRODUCED ITS FIRST GAY SUPERHERO ON TV EARLIER THAN YOU THK
- WHO WAS THE FIRST GAY SUPERHERO? — THE ROUGH ROAD TO MARVEL’S NORTHSTAR
- WHO WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPERHERO? — IN DEFENSE OF DC COMICS’ EXTRAñO
- NORTHSTAR, MARVEL’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO
- NORTHSTAR – THE FIRST GAY SUPERHERO
- MARVEL'S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO & KISS ACCINTALLY CONFIRMED BY ETERNALS ACTOR
LOOKG BACK AT THE MISTREATMENT OF MARVEL’S FIRST GAY COMIC SUPERHERO
Northstar is often lled the first gay superhero, although he wasn’t allowed to e out until 13 years after his but. * gay superhero first *
A gay superhero parody of BYU's Brigham Young statue (2017) (image by Pastelopapa via Wikimedia). 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.
MARVEL’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO DEFEATS EVIL, MAK HISTORY ETERNALS TRAILER
From Wonr Woman to Northstar, here are some of the most groundbreakg LGBTQ characters and gay superhero Marvel and DC Comics non. * gay superhero first *
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 Perhaps seemed that to keep the first out gay man was a potls exercise, pecially one so mired outdated stereotyp.
DC INTRODUCED ITS FIRST GAY SUPERHERO ON TV EARLIER THAN YOU THK
Unregnized for havg DC's first nfirmed gay superhero on televisn, Static Shock subtly brought LGBTQIA+ reprentatn before the Arrowverse. * gay superhero first *
The Eternals trailer offers the brieft of glimps at Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry), the first gay superhero a major Hollywood anchise. Dcribed as an “telligent ventor” an acpanyg summary, the character will reportedly break ground by sharg the film stud’s first onscreen gay kiss wh his hband, played by out, gay Lebane actor Haaz an terview, Sleiman said the climactic smooch was an emotnal moment on set, pecially given s importance to LGBTQ+ reprentatn. 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. 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.
WHO WAS THE FIRST GAY SUPERHERO? — THE ROUGH ROAD TO MARVEL’S NORTHSTAR
Now that we've vered the LGBTQ ic book basics, and the first mastream, openly gay superhero, Extraño, 's time to take a look at the (sort of) first mastream gay superhero: Northstar. At least, that's what this was gog to be about. Then, over the urse of rearchg how Northstar beme the poster boy for… * gay superhero first *
Unregnized for havg DC's first nfirmed gay superhero on televisn, Static Shock subtly brought LGBTQIA+ reprentatn before the Arrowverse.
Before CW's Arrow, Batwoman, or Legends of Tomorrow, DC troduced s first gay superhero to TV the Static Shock animated seri, far earlier than most people thk. However, few knew that late Static Shock creator Dwayne McDuffie was subtle about , but not aaid to add a gay character to the Saturday morng experience.
WHO WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPERHERO? — IN DEFENSE OF DC COMICS’ EXTRAñO
As Pri Month wds down, what better way to start a blog takg a eper dive to geekdom than by lookg at LGBTQ reprentatn ic books? And what better place to start than wh the first out gay superhero? At least, would be, if we uld fively fd him or her... The problem… * gay superhero first *
However, while many may dismiss as a wish for more reprentatn on Saturday morngs, clu the ics and the words of the late creator himself tablish that Gear was gay, predatg a majory of DC TV's current LGBTQIA+ characters. He noted that he'd always nsired Gear to be gay and softly hted at this throughout the show’s n. Wh the upg adaptatn velopment, perhaps Richie Foley, or even the origal Rick Stone, will be seen, not only as a gay in but also as the hero Dwayne McDuffie imaged him to be.
Now that we’ve vered the LGBTQ ic book basics, and the first mastream, openly gay superhero, Extraño, ’s time to take a look at the (sort of) first mastream gay superhero: Northstar. Then, over the urse of rearchg how Northstar beme the poster boy for closeted gays, this post took a fun ltle tour.
Wrer and artist John Byrne nsirs himself to have created the first gay superhero Northstar, a character who first appeared a uple issu of The Unnny X-Men. But while Byrne may have thought was time for a gay superhero, Marvel edor--chief Jim Shooter had very different ias.
NORTHSTAR, MARVEL’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO
Northstar's role as Marvel's first gay superhero is discsed, as is his signifince LGBT reprentatn, along wh a list of his key appearanc. * gay superhero first *
He had, reportedly, stuted a ban on homosexual portrayals throughout his tenure the ’80s.
If you haven’t, here’s a quick ndown: Bce is attacked the YMCA showers by two predatory gay men tent on filg him. From makg one of the first forays to homosexualy one of vlence and gay panic, to pictns that lean heavily to stereotyp and borrle ritur, ’s jt a nightmare.
Stereotypg gay characters as beg straight out of a gay panic fever dream was not his problem, sce he jt wanted to tell a personal story. It left a mark on him, and dig around onle enough and you’ll fd those who suggt that the ban on homosexual portrayals was a direct rponse to the backlash he got om his Hulk story.
NORTHSTAR – THE FIRST GAY SUPERHERO
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So how necsary was his extra cree for Marvel’s ic le that was subject to the Co, sce the CCA didn’t drop their own ban on homosexual ntent until 1989? None of this is to say Jim Shooter is homophobic, pecially as this was, aga, almost 40 years ago. But at the time, he wasn’t exactly creatg a welg environment for the gay muny or his gay rears.
MARVEL'S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO & KISS ACCINTALLY CONFIRMED BY ETERNALS ACTOR
We’ll get to the part above that had pissed off that particular gay rear, but why not take a tour first to an earlier part of the TCJ terview? As he told TCJ, Byrne created a character he dubbed Gay Guy for The College of Art’s school paper at the Southern Alberta Instute of Technology.