15 Openly Gay Marvel Characters That Might Be Comg To The MCU

Contents:

• GAY SUPERHERO IN COMICS & MOVI YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• LOOKG BACK AT THE MISTREATMENT OF MARVEL’S FIRST GAY COMIC SUPERHERO
• 'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)

GAY SUPERHERO IN COMICS & MOVI YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

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.

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. 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.

15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU

(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.

LOOKG BACK AT THE MISTREATMENT OF MARVEL’S FIRST GAY COMIC SUPERHERO

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.

'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)

Set the same Gotham Cy more well-known for ped csars like Batman and Rob, Batwoman is the first superhero TV show whose lead character is an openly gay woman. So when the teen Jean Grey tak the teen Iceman asi 2015's All-New X-Men #40 to reveal that she knows he's gay, there is also an olr versn of Iceman out there the world who has been datg women for his entire adult life. In Alpha Flight #106, durg a battle wh the World War II era superhero Major Mapleleaf, Northstar adms that he's gay.