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Contents:

• HOW ‘ETERNALS’ ESTABLISH THE MCU’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO AND SAME-SEX COUPLE A MOVIE: ‘IT’S LIFE-SAVG’
• A GAY SUPERHERO WOULD FALLY GIVE LGBTQ KIDS THE REPRENTATN THEY NEED — SO WHY ARE WE STILL WAG?
• MARVEL’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO DEFEATS EVIL, MAK HISTORY ETERNALS TRAILER
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• ETERNALS IS JT THE START OF GAY SUPERHERO THE MCU, PROMIS MARVEL BOSS
• WHY THE INTER IS BUZZG ABOUT A GAY MARVEL CHARACTER THAT DON'T EXIST (YET)

HOW ‘ETERNALS’ ESTABLISH THE MCU’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO AND SAME-SEX COUPLE A MOVIE: ‘IT’S LIFE-SAVG’

The 45-year-old actor, who me out as gay 2017, uld srcely believe he was on the red rpet for a massive stud movie which his character, Ben, is the hband of one of the tle superhero, Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry). It’s about do you actually feel for them, whether you’re gay or straight or whatever. The Marvel Cematic Universe (MCU) was fairly slow troducg LGBTQ+ characters —though seeg as even the most chaste reprentatns of queer love get the films banned some untri, you n see why they would be Strange and The Multiverse of Madns actually breaks the rerd for the most lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and/or queer characters an MCU property wh three.

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Actor Haaz Sleiman is an out gay man himself, and was born the Uned Arab Emirat. Siarly, on the CW’s “Supergirl, ” the tular hero’s sister Alex (Chyler Leigh) is gay and has had multiple girliends; on Season 4, the show buted TV’s first trans superhero, Dreamer (played by trans actor Nile Ma). Matt Bomer plays gay superhero Larry Traor on HBO Max’s “Doom Patrol.

A GAY SUPERHERO WOULD FALLY GIVE LGBTQ KIDS THE REPRENTATN THEY NEED — SO WHY ARE WE STILL WAG?

” Jefferson Pierce’s dghter Anissa (Nafsa Williams) on “Black Lightg” is a lbian; Oliver Queen’s son William (Ben Lewis) on “Arrow” is gay. Amazon’s “The Boys” explor how Queen Maeve (Domique McElligott) had to end her relatnship wh her girliend for fear of beg outed; on “Invcible, ” by ntrast, the tular hero’s gay bt iend William (Andrew Rannells) is very much out and proud. There’s the grievg gay man “Avengers: Endgame” played by director Joe Rso.

Whether Loki will ever have e to exprs same-sex love or sexual attractn remas to be seen, but at least two queer characters are on the MCU’s immediate horizon: The feature film “Eternals, ” set to open November, will clu the MCU’s first gay superhero Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry), who will have a hband (played by out actor Haaz Sleiman).

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MARVEL’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO DEFEATS EVIL, MAK HISTORY ETERNALS TRAILER

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

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ETERNALS IS JT THE START OF GAY SUPERHERO THE MCU, PROMIS MARVEL BOSS

I often thk about what I would have done to have had that film when I was a 10-year-old kid stgglg wh my sexualy, entrenched fear, doubt, and 's not an overstatement to say that one film uld have saved me om years of reprsn and ternalized homophobia. Superhero are pretty gay anywayQueer director Daniel Ribeiro, who directed "The Way He Looks, " told Insir: "I've always thought 'X-Men' was jt a big queer movie, so I thk everyone who is LGBT knows what they are talkg about a way. "Ined, "X2" even has a mock g-out scene when Ice Man (who is gay the ics) out as a mutant to his parents — who even ask him "have you tried not beg a mutant?

"Ice Man, an X-Man, is actually gay the ics, while fellow X-Man Northstar married his partner Jadu the ic's first-ever gay weddg. To see somethg like a gay weddg an MCU film would be nothg short of 's track rerd won't fill LGBTQ people wh hopeWhile I am exced to see Valkyrie and Phastos "Love and Thunr" and "The Eternals, " and hope that they are given very proment rol their rpective films, I am hant to get my hop up jt don't have an amazg track rerd when to LGBT om the aforementned Le Fou cint, Disney has tried to make good on their promise of reprentatn wh a smatterg of unnamed background characters, like "Zooptopia" and "Onward, " while they bottled the chance of givg queer lead characters their other flagship anchise, "Star Wars. 'Empire' creator Lee Daniels said he's been stgglg to make a gay superhero movie for years but 'maybe they'll give to a whe guy'.

WHY THE INTER IS BUZZG ABOUT A GAY MARVEL CHARACTER THAT DON'T EXIST (YET)

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. Ayo then went on to -lead a ic tled Black Panther: World of Wakanda, by Roxanne Gay, Ta-Nehsi Coat, Alha Martez, Roberto Poggi, and Rachelle Rosenberg.

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