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The wrer and one of Marvel's first openly gay edors discs 'Marvel's Voic: Pri,' the origal X-Men, Northstar, and more! * alpha flight northstar gay *

PodstsPublished June 29, 2021The wrer and one of Marvel's first openly gay edors discs 'Marvel's Voic: Pri, ' the origal X-Men, Northstar, and more! The wrer, edor, active birr, and Harvard alum was associate edor at Marvel Comics om 1990-1996, and one of Marvel's first openly gay edors. Most notably, Cooper was the associate edor of the landmark issue ALPHA FLIGHT #106, where Northstar out as gay, beg the first openly gay Super Hero the Marvel Universe, as well as troducg Victoria Monti, the first openly lbian character for Marvel.

As he pots out to host Angélique Roché, his iend Kelly Corve, "who [he] hat for all eterny bee he beat [him] by jt a few months as the first openly gay edor at Marvel, " alerted him that an assistant edor job was openg up and knew about his dream of workg for Marvel Comics.

MARVEL'S FIRST MAJOR GAY CHARACTER DERV A STAND-ALONE COMIC

The wrer and one of Marvel's first openly gay edors discs 'Marvel's Voic: Pri,' the origal X-Men, Northstar, and more! * alpha flight northstar gay *

Now, never md that DC had had openly gay characters before .

Never md that the pennt ics had openly gay characters. That was seismic for Marvel to have an openly gay Super Hero.

The people wrg ics, like me, are eher gay themselv or have gay people their liv.

NORTHSTAR: MARVEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HERO

Marvel's first major gay hero has an awome power set and has been a member of the X-Men, although he has never had his own tle. * alpha flight northstar gay *

There are gay people who we are workg si by si wh. Back 1992, Marvel Comics ma headl by revealg that Northstar, a Canadian superhero associated wh Alpha Flight and the X-Men, was gay.

ALPHA FLIGHT #105-106 (1992): NORTHSTAR IS GAY

Issue #106 is the one where Northstar stggl wh his sexualy and then out as gay. We'll get to that a sec. First, Madison Jefi and Diamond Lil are gettg married, and there's a Christmas ver. They have their bachelor/bachelorette parti. That's basilly issue #105. Of note: The… * alpha flight northstar gay *

“When gay marriage beme legal New York State, raised obv qutns sce most of our hero ri New York State. Northstar is the first openly gay character ics and he’s been a longterm relatnship wh his partner Kyle so the big qutn was – how would this change his relatnship?, ” says Marvel Comics edor--chief Axel Alonso. “Here are two people, tryg to live their liv – mutant and gay, black and gay – empowered their own ways, but also ge-dwellers, ” says Liu.

The tensns will rm Liu’s Astonishg X-Men stori gog forward, but Alonso says the uple will also have to nont homophobia om Northstar’s teammat.

GAY HERO: NORTHSTAR COM OUT OF CLOSET -- COMIC-BOOK FIGURE REVEALS HOMOSEXUALY

Marvel's first major gay hero has an awome power set and has been a member of the X-Men, although he has never had his own tle.

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

His character was tend to be gay sce his ceptn, but was not explicly revealed to be so until 1992's Alpha Flight #106 (by Stt Lobll and Mark Pacella). Northstar officially me out as homosexual 1992, years after his character ially buted. A fight ensu between Major Mapleleaf and Northstar, who exclaims to the stranger that he don't need to be lectured on the plight of homosexuals, as no one knows them better than he.

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Lookg Back at the Mistreatment of Marvel's First Gay Comic Superhero.

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