Marvel's Earlit Gay Characters Introduced Don McGregor's Black Panther Comics
Contents:
- DISNEY REMOV GAY BLACK PANTHER 2 SCENE TO AVOID BAN
- THE INCREDIBLE TE ADVENTURE OF FIVE GAY ACTIVISTS SEARCH OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY
- GAY ROMANCE WAS CUT FROM ‘BLACK PANTHER’
- IS BLACK PANTHER GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
- BLACK PANTHER TO FEATURE FIRST GAY CHARACTERS A MARVEL MOVIE?
- MICHAELA COEL CHOSE TO PLAY A QUEER CHARACTER IN "BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER" AS A PROTT AGAST GHANA'S ANTI-GAY LAWS
- BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER’S ONLY LGBTQ+ MOMENT CUT FOR KUWA RELEASETWO OTHER SMALL BUT KEY MOMENTS WERE ALSO CUT OM THE FILM. BY YOHANA DTANOVEMBER 11, 2022COURTY OF MARVEL STUDS/DISNEY.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIN BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER, THERE’S A BRIEF MOMENT WHERE ’S MA CLEAR THAT MICHAELA COEL AND FLORENCE KASUMBA’S CHARACTERS—ANEKA AND AYO, DORA MILAJE WARRRS—ARE A RELATNSHIP. BUT VIEWERS WHO WATCH THE FILM KUWA WILL NEVER SEE THAT MOMENT. ACRDG TO THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, THE BRIEF SCENE HAS BEEN CUT OM THE FILM FOR S THEATRIL N THE GULF UNTRY, REMOVG THE ONLY EXPLICLY LGBTQ+ SCENE THE BLACK PANTHER SEQUEL. IN THE SCENE, ANEKA KISS AYO ON THE FOREHEAD. AYO REPLI, “THANK YOU, MY LOVE,” MAKG CLEAR THE PAIR ARE ROMANTILLY LKED. THE SCENE LASTS JT A FEW SENDS (PAR FOR THE URSE WH MARVEL AND S TEPID LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN RERD), BUT WAS APPARENTLY STILL TOO MUCH FOR THE KUWAI CENSORS. THR ALSO REPORTS THAT A FEW OTHER SMALL BUT KEY EDS WERE MA, CLUDG A SCENE WHICH A WOMAN GIV BIRTH TO A CHILD AND A CHARACTER SAYS THE LE, “A GOD TO HIS PEOPLE” REFERENCE TO NAMOR, THE POWERFUL TALOKAN LEAR PLAYED BY TENOCH HUERTA. ALL ALL, THE CUTS AMOUNT TO JT OVER ONE MUTE OF FOOTAGE, PER THR. A SOURCE NFIRMED THE CUTS TO VANY FAIR, NOTG THEY WERE DONE TO ADHERE TO KUWA’S CULTURAL SENSIVI. THE CUTS THAT WERE MA WERE EMED NOT CRIL TO THE STORY, AND WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MA IF THEY IMPACTED THE STORYTELLG, THE SOURCE ADDS. TH FAR, THR NOT THAT KUWA IS THE ONLY GULF UNTRY TO N THAT LIGHTLY CENSORED VERSN OF THE FILM, A SEQUEL TO THE BILLN-DOLLAR 2018 H BLACK PANTHER. KUWA IS FAMOLY CENSOR WHEN TO S THEATRIL NS, REQUIRG THAT SCEN CLUDG TIMACY (REGARDLS OF GENR), RELIG REFERENC, MEDIL PROCR AND MORE BE EDED OUT OF FILMS, THE SOURCE TELLS VF. WHEN THE FIRST BLACK PANTHER WAS RELEASED, A SCENE PICTG A KISS BETWEEN T’CHALLA AND NAKIA WAS EDED OUT OF THE FILM BEFORE ULD H THEATERS THE UNTRY. IN A PREV TERVIEW, COEL HAS SAID THAT ANEKA AND AYO’S RELATNSHIP WAS ONE OF THE REASONS SHE SIGNED ON TO THE SEQUEL. “THAT SOLD ME ON THE ROLE, THE FACT THAT MY CHARACTER’S QUEER,” SHE RECENTLY TOLD VOGUE. THE EMMY-WNG MULTIHYPHENATE, WHO IS BRISH-GHANAIAN, WAS PARTICULARLY TERTED PLAYG ANEKA BEE GHANA HAS NOTORLY OPPRSIVE ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAWS. “PEOPLE SAY, ‘OH, ’S FE, ’S JT POLICS.’ BUT I DON’T THK IS JT POLICS WHEN AFFECTS HOW PEOPLE GET TO LIVE THEIR DAILY LIV,” SHE NTUED. “THAT’S WHY FELT IMPORTANT FOR ME TO STEP AND DO THAT ROLE BEE I KNOW JT BY MY BEG GHANAIAN, GHANAIANS WILL E.”KASUMBA HAS SIARLY SPOKEN OUT ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF QUEER REPRENTATN THE MARVEL CEMATIC UNIVERSE. “WHEN YOU SEE THAT A PRODUCTN LIKE THIS, WH PEOPLE YOU REALLY LOOK UP TO, MAK A BIG DIFFERENCE,” SHE TOLD DIGAL SPY. IN THE FIRST BLACK PANTHER, THERE WAS ORIGALLY A SCENE AN EARLY ROUGH CUT WHERE KASUMBA’S AYO APPEARED TO FLIRT WH OKOYE, THE DORA MILAJE LEAR PLAYED BY DANAI GURIRA (THOUGH MARVEL PREVLY CLARIFIED THAT THEIR RELATNSHIP WAS NOT ROMANTIC). HOWEVER, THE SCENE WAS ULTIMATELY CUT OUT OF THE FAL FILM. WAKANDA FOREVER SEEMS TO, AT LAST, MAKE GOOD ON SHOWG THIS ASPECT OF AYO’S LIFE—EVEN IF IS AS WILDLY BRIEF AND MARVEL-SAFE AS POSSIBLE. THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED. MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMER25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONYOHANA DTA
- MARVEL’S EARLIT GAY CHARACTERS INTRODUCED DON MCGREGOR’S BLACK PANTHER COMICS
- ROXANE GAY ON BEG THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE LEAD MARVEL WRER: 'WE AREN'T ALLOWED TO FAIL'
- (1970) HUEY P. NEWTON, “THE WOMEN’S LIBERATN AND GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENTS”
- THE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT: DID BLACK LIV MATTER THEN, TOO?
DISNEY REMOV GAY BLACK PANTHER 2 SCENE TO AVOID BAN
An oral history of five gay activists who traveled across the US to jo the Black Panther's Constutnal Conventn and envisn a new Ameri. * gay in black panther *
Meanwhile, Chavez (Xochl Gomez) herself, who intifi as a lbian the ics, do wear an LGBTQ+ badge durg the movie but the film don't explore her own biggt form of LGBTQ+ reprentatn me "Eternals, " which premiered last year, where one of the hero Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) is married to a man and has the first on-screen gay kiss. Even Sdi Arabia, where homosexualy is illegal, will show the forehead kiss.
Recent blockbters such as “Thor: Love and Thunr, ” “Doctor Strange the Multiverse of Madns” and “Wt Si Story” reportedly didn’t make to Sdi theaters bee of same-genr kiss and gay or transgenr characters. Over the last year, major tl cludg Pixar’s Lightyear; Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunr, Doctor Strange the Multiverse of Madns and Eternals; and Disney’s Wt Si Story were all stopped by censors om htg cemas over same-genr kiss and gay or transgenr characters.
THE INCREDIBLE TE ADVENTURE OF FIVE GAY ACTIVISTS SEARCH OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY
Marvel Studs' Black Panther stirs ntroversy wh the removal of gay flirtatn scene * gay in black panther *
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has ma s MCU but across the world, but appears that a moment of gay reprentatn has been cut one ternatnal Phase 4 of the MCU began, Marvel Studs has put more of a ncerted effort to brgg new levels of reprentatn to the story on the big and small screen.
2021’s Eternals was banned om releasg three Middle Eastern natns due to Phastos beg picted as a gay character, wh the movie showg his relatnship wh his hband. Six months later, Doctor Strange the Multiverse of Madns faced those same bans thanks to Ameri Chavez havg two mothers, although Disney refed to take that moment out due to beg only 12 sends of, Black Panther 2 fac that same stggle wh s own but, as Disney was forced to remove a small amount of material brgg a new gay relatnship to the Marvel Studs Cuts LGBTQ+ Scene for Black Panther 2. The pany stood behd Doctor Strange 2 s full form while cuttg this moment between Ayo and Aneka for Black Panther 2, and 's difficult to tell why Disney ma this ll after seeg what happened earlier this and Aneka's gay relatnship has been discsed a number of tim throughout the marketg mpaign for Black Panther 2, beg nfirmed as part of the movie a few weeks ahead of s but.
GAY ROMANCE WAS CUT FROM ‘BLACK PANTHER’
Director Jam Gunn hts that gay characters may already exist the MCU wh a recent Black Panther clip htg at a lbian relatnship. * gay in black panther *
Two years later, we're lookg back wh Pri & Prott, a package of stori about activism, the Black Liv matter movement, and the fight to change the the fall of 1970, as the Vietnam War raged, five guys om the New York Cy Gay Liberatn Front took a meanrg road trip through the South a maroon-and-whe Volkswagen B. To spire gay people to attend the send Black Panther–anized Revolutnary People’s Constutnal Conventn Washgton, D.
More From Harper's BAZAARClockwise om left: Joel, Richard, Doug, and BenRichard KoobBefore they even got unrway, the ernment was watchg them, worried about “a nnectn between the homosexual movement and the Black Panther Party, ” a feral document Archiv at the USC LibrariThe FBI was sowg disrd among radils, and was easy for mistst to take root.
We were full-fledged Gay Liberatn and Black Liberatn and everythg else people. Gil: Richard was bar none the bt-lookg man Gay Liberatn. Do you know any gay people?
IS BLACK PANTHER GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
* gay in black panther *
We would ntact Gay Liberatn each area, and they’d ve to speak about what we were dog.
We were proselytizg, so when we’d meet people, we’d s on the floor a circle, or chairs, and spread the word about Gay The nversatns were basilly around what was we were feelg as gay men and how we uld move people to e to this nventn so that we uld anize Stop: North Carola Joe Sohm/Visns of Ameri//Getty ImagGil: Greenville, North Carola, was one of the first plac we stopped, bee was a center of leftist anizg the textile ls. Doug’s fay were untry people, outsi Greenville, and he told his mother that he was gay, and she was obvly stricken. They were mostly young, whe, gay men that were volved Gay Liberatn.
BLACK PANTHER TO FEATURE FIRST GAY CHARACTERS A MARVEL MOVIE?
Wrer Roxane Gay opens up about beg Marvel's first black woman lead wrer and her new project, 'Black Panther: World of Wakanda.' * gay in black panther *
Gil: We ma ntact wh this gay man who had a shelter the French Quarter for gay adolcents who had been thrown out by their fai. I thk the Gay Liberatn Front got out.
MICHAELA COEL CHOSE TO PLAY A QUEER CHARACTER IN "BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER" AS A PROTT AGAST GHANA'S ANTI-GAY LAWS
So I started the ll by announcg that I was gay, and on a tour to rec gay people for Gay Lib. It was her first direct knowledge that I was gay, and that there was such a thg as Gay proceed to have a wildly joyo and dnken party celebratn. But there’s a feelg the air all the time for Black men who are gay—the possibily of beg offed jt bee we’re walkg down the York Public LibraryRichard: Some of had been meetgs NYC about anizg a gay revolutn party, thkg a Panther-like strategy of beg armed might be sential.
I ntacted two iends of me, Cecil and John, who were my first gay iends as an adult. I was shocked bee I thought was maly gog to be gay people that we were nferencg wh, but we end up nferencg wh everybody.
I’m Black and I’m gay. Everythg I do is Black, and everythg I do is gay, bee I’m Black and I’m gay.
BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER’S ONLY LGBTQ+ MOMENT CUT FOR KUWA RELEASETWO OTHER SMALL BUT KEY MOMENTS WERE ALSO CUT OM THE FILM. BY YOHANA DTANOVEMBER 11, 2022COURTY OF MARVEL STUDS/DISNEY.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIN BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER, THERE’S A BRIEF MOMENT WHERE ’S MA CLEAR THAT MICHAELA COEL AND FLORENCE KASUMBA’S CHARACTERS—ANEKA AND AYO, DORA MILAJE WARRRS—ARE A RELATNSHIP. BUT VIEWERS WHO WATCH THE FILM KUWA WILL NEVER SEE THAT MOMENT. ACRDG TO THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, THE BRIEF SCENE HAS BEEN CUT OM THE FILM FOR S THEATRIL N THE GULF UNTRY, REMOVG THE ONLY EXPLICLY LGBTQ+ SCENE THE BLACK PANTHER SEQUEL. IN THE SCENE, ANEKA KISS AYO ON THE FOREHEAD. AYO REPLI, “THANK YOU, MY LOVE,” MAKG CLEAR THE PAIR ARE ROMANTILLY LKED. THE SCENE LASTS JT A FEW SENDS (PAR FOR THE URSE WH MARVEL AND S TEPID LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN RERD), BUT WAS APPARENTLY STILL TOO MUCH FOR THE KUWAI CENSORS. THR ALSO REPORTS THAT A FEW OTHER SMALL BUT KEY EDS WERE MA, CLUDG A SCENE WHICH A WOMAN GIV BIRTH TO A CHILD AND A CHARACTER SAYS THE LE, “A GOD TO HIS PEOPLE” REFERENCE TO NAMOR, THE POWERFUL TALOKAN LEAR PLAYED BY TENOCH HUERTA. ALL ALL, THE CUTS AMOUNT TO JT OVER ONE MUTE OF FOOTAGE, PER THR. A SOURCE NFIRMED THE CUTS TO VANY FAIR, NOTG THEY WERE DONE TO ADHERE TO KUWA’S CULTURAL SENSIVI. THE CUTS THAT WERE MA WERE EMED NOT CRIL TO THE STORY, AND WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MA IF THEY IMPACTED THE STORYTELLG, THE SOURCE ADDS. TH FAR, THR NOT THAT KUWA IS THE ONLY GULF UNTRY TO N THAT LIGHTLY CENSORED VERSN OF THE FILM, A SEQUEL TO THE BILLN-DOLLAR 2018 H BLACK PANTHER. KUWA IS FAMOLY CENSOR WHEN TO S THEATRIL NS, REQUIRG THAT SCEN CLUDG TIMACY (REGARDLS OF GENR), RELIG REFERENC, MEDIL PROCR AND MORE BE EDED OUT OF FILMS, THE SOURCE TELLS VF. WHEN THE FIRST BLACK PANTHER WAS RELEASED, A SCENE PICTG A KISS BETWEEN T’CHALLA AND NAKIA WAS EDED OUT OF THE FILM BEFORE ULD H THEATERS THE UNTRY. IN A PREV TERVIEW, COEL HAS SAID THAT ANEKA AND AYO’S RELATNSHIP WAS ONE OF THE REASONS SHE SIGNED ON TO THE SEQUEL. “THAT SOLD ME ON THE ROLE, THE FACT THAT MY CHARACTER’S QUEER,” SHE RECENTLY TOLD VOGUE. THE EMMY-WNG MULTIHYPHENATE, WHO IS BRISH-GHANAIAN, WAS PARTICULARLY TERTED PLAYG ANEKA BEE GHANA HAS NOTORLY OPPRSIVE ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAWS. “PEOPLE SAY, ‘OH, ’S FE, ’S JT POLICS.’ BUT I DON’T THK IS JT POLICS WHEN AFFECTS HOW PEOPLE GET TO LIVE THEIR DAILY LIV,” SHE NTUED. “THAT’S WHY FELT IMPORTANT FOR ME TO STEP AND DO THAT ROLE BEE I KNOW JT BY MY BEG GHANAIAN, GHANAIANS WILL E.”KASUMBA HAS SIARLY SPOKEN OUT ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF QUEER REPRENTATN THE MARVEL CEMATIC UNIVERSE. “WHEN YOU SEE THAT A PRODUCTN LIKE THIS, WH PEOPLE YOU REALLY LOOK UP TO, MAK A BIG DIFFERENCE,” SHE TOLD DIGAL SPY. IN THE FIRST BLACK PANTHER, THERE WAS ORIGALLY A SCENE AN EARLY ROUGH CUT WHERE KASUMBA’S AYO APPEARED TO FLIRT WH OKOYE, THE DORA MILAJE LEAR PLAYED BY DANAI GURIRA (THOUGH MARVEL PREVLY CLARIFIED THAT THEIR RELATNSHIP WAS NOT ROMANTIC). HOWEVER, THE SCENE WAS ULTIMATELY CUT OUT OF THE FAL FILM. WAKANDA FOREVER SEEMS TO, AT LAST, MAKE GOOD ON SHOWG THIS ASPECT OF AYO’S LIFE—EVEN IF IS AS WILDLY BRIEF AND MARVEL-SAFE AS POSSIBLE. THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED. MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMER25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONYOHANA DTA
CodaAn email, om John Fish to Hugh Ryan, dated April 21, 2021Hi Hugh, I got an email om Micky sayg you were lookg for rmatn about a group of gay men that vised the Louisville Gay Liberatn Front group back 1970.
I thk one of the other men the group was Jim ***** rellectn is that they had gone to a Revolutnary People's Constutnal Conventn Philalphia held by the Black Panther Party, and there was gog to be a send nventn Washgton, DC, on Thanksgivg Day weekend, and they wanted to see if anyone om Louisville Gay Liberatn Front would attend. Marvel Studs’ Black Panther stirs ntroversy wh the removal of gay flirtatn scene….
But, spe the hype, Disney-Marvel’s big budget film missed the opportuny to showse a gay storyle. The movie was origally supposed to feature a gay storyle between two members of the Dora Milage, the all-female special forc of Wakanda who serve as Black Panther’s bodyguards. Upon release, fans noticed that the gay storyle had been pletely removed om the film, wh Okoye picted as a relatnship wh Daniel Kaluuya’s character, W’Kabi.
MARVEL’S EARLIT GAY CHARACTERS INTRODUCED DON MCGREGOR’S BLACK PANTHER COMICS
This article will exame whether Black Panther is gay, bisexual, or straight and what is the Marvel non. Director Jam Gunn hts that gay characters may already exist the MCU wh a recent Black Panther clip htg at a lbian relatnship. Are gay characters already the Marvel Cematic Universe?
But Guardians of the Galaxy director Jam Gunn thks that gay characters uld already be out there. At one pot, the topic of gay characters the MCU me up and Jam Gunn revealed that he thks there is a possibily they already exist, and his reasong is pretty sound. "You know, somebody asked me, 'Will there be any gay characters Marvel movi?
Whether 's gay or straight or bisexual, we don't really know. Um, so I image that there are probably, you know, gay characters the Marvel universe, you know, we jt don't know who they are yet.
ROXANE GAY ON BEG THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE LEAD MARVEL WRER: 'WE AREN'T ALLOWED TO FAIL'
So sure, there uld be gay characters the universe that we already know. But the gay them are heavily implied, and 's tertg to note that this is one of the few dialogue exchang Marvel cid to show atten of their open hoe.
Even if there are some unintified gay characters already floatg around somewhere wh the nf of the MCU, this is a much bigger al.
(1970) HUEY P. NEWTON, “THE WOMEN’S LIBERATN AND GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENTS”
And havg an openly gay character this sprg's mega-h Bety and the Beast certaly didn't hamper s n at the box office, wh that movie also g om Disney. Marvel brought s first openly gay hero to the big screen “Eternals” wh Brian Tyree Henry’s Phastos. Even before the bill was drafted, Ghana had strict anti-gay laws that date back to the lonial era.
Michaela mentned Ghana specifilly, not only bee she is of Ghanaian scent, but also bee of the dranian anti-gay laws the untry has put to place.
The reason was that one of the film’s ma characters, Ameri Chavez, is a gay character, and has two moms. Due to the fact that homosexualy is illegal parts of the Middle East, ’s not all that surprisg that movi have been banned, or cuts have been requted.
THE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT: DID BLACK LIV MATTER THEN, TOO?
It’s not nfirmed, but there is an openly gay character the film, Phastos, played by Brian Tyree Henry, so ’s likely that was one reason was not shown.
If reports about Black Panther's sexual chemistry is right, then the movie may be takg a page straight om Roxane Gay's n of World of Wakanda. Regardls of fan petns, the MCU will ntue on s prested trajectory even if do leave fans smartg over s homogeno take on sexualy.