A Brief Timele of Disney's 17 'First Gay Characters'

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From Wonr Woman to Northstar, here are some of the most groundbreakg LGBTQ characters and gay superhero Marvel and DC Comics non.

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It’s about do you actually feel for them, whether you’re gay or straight or whatever. No one lov a 'first gay character' more than Disney. Disney has been que a b of hot, gay water recent years.

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The pany has never been known for s great LGBTQ+ reprentatn or polics, but 's e unr even more scty than ual after fans learned that the pany was donatg money to legislators Florida backg that state's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill.

Especially when the news broke that Pixar has been censorg gay ntent out of s films for Disney really been producg enough spirg ntent to unteract s donatns and lack of a statement?

RELATED | 11 Gay, Bi, & Lbian Creators Who Ma Disney What It Is Today. First Gay Married Couple: Bucky and Pronk Oryx-Antlerson 'Zootopia' (2016). Fans didn't even notice this gay married uple Zootopia until years after the movie me out.

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First 'Exclively Gay Moment:' LeFou 'Bety and the Beast' (2017). When this live-actn remake me out, Disney touted LeFou (played by Josh Gad) as beg their first gay character and even said that he had an "exclively gay moment" the film. When turned out that gay moment was a flash of him dancg wh another man a group scene, fans weren't so exced.

First Gay Character the MCU: Grievg Man 'Avengers: Endgame' (2019). Disney and Marvel Studs proudly announced that 2019 they had troduced their first gay character the Marvel Cematic Universe, only to have fans fd out that was an unnamed character one scene played by the movie's straight -director. Aga, they're only shown kissg for a send, but hey, at least we know that gays exist space.

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First Major Gay Character: MacGregor 'Jungle Cise' (2021).

MacGregor, played by Jack Whehall, was supposed to be Disney's "first major gay character" when Jungle Cise was set to be released way back 2019, but bee of the global panmic, the film was layed until 2021.

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First Gay Superhero the MCU: Phastos 'Eternals' (2021). Marvel's first gay superhero and the first married gay uple the MCU both happened 2021, which was que the year for "First Gays" for the pany. It took only 13 years and two dozen movi for Marvel to troduce a gay superhero.

First Major Gay Character (Aga): Artie 'Cella' (2021). Artie is one of several characters advertised as the pany's "first major gay character" after both LeFou Bety and the Beast and MacGregor the layed-for-several-years Jungle Cise.

First Gay Disney Love Song: 'High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri' (2021). In one of the episos season 2, Seb is worried that Carlos is only datg him bee he's the only other gay kid he knows.

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After news broke that Disney not only donated to legislators backg anti-gay bills, but also repeatedly cut queer ntent om their movi, Pixar cid to rtore a scene the Lightyear film where a female character named Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) kiss her female partner. First Openly Gay Teen Romance a Feature: 'Strange World' (2022).

Comedian Jaboie Young-Whe will be voicg a new character the upg animated film Strange World who is volved "the first openly gay teen romance a Disney feature" acrdg to Twter er Matthiew Saghezchi, who saw a clip om the film at the Annecy 2022 ftival. 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. As one of the origal X-Men, he was portrayed as straight for s beg outed as gay 2015.

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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. After years of hts, he me out as gay 1992.

LGBTQ and gay superhero list:Wonr Woman (DC Comics). Later this year, we will get the first openly gay superhero a big-budget superhero movie. And , Henry’s character Phastos will be revealed to be an openly gay man.

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Wicn and Hulklg are probably one of the most popular, if not THE MOST POPULAR, gay superhero all of ic book history. This origal X-man may have already appeared on the big screen, but the character wasn’t openly gay back then.

Whenever the X-Men and mutants appear the MCU, will their versn of Bobby Drake be troduced as gay? Northstar was the first openly gay superhero a mastream ic. And he also was one of the first gay ic book characters to get married.

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When retroduced to ic book fans 2003, Rawhi Kid was wrten by Ron Zimmerman as a mpy gay gunslger who was obssed wh Old Wt movi. This gay hero, named Miguel Jose Barragan, has the abily to create and project psnic bricks.

A gay superhero parody of BYU's Brigham Young statue (2017) (image by Pastelopapa via Wikimedia). Marvel’s first gay superhero is an amalgamatn of straight assumptns.

Northstar was troduced 1979 as the first gay character the superhero genre. 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.

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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.

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The 59-year-old The Butler director took to Instagram on Tuday to announced that he would be velopg the first gay superhero film, starrg recent viral sensatn SuperB***h, whose real name is Dremon Cooper. "Do you all remember maybe 10, 12 years ago I said my dream was to make a gay superhero film? ""10 years ago folks thought I was crazy when I said I wanted to make a gay superhero flick....

#gaysuperhero, " the two-time Osr wner also wrote the ptn. "This year, The Eternals will troduce Marvel movi' first gay have been reports sce 2019 that Phase 4 of the MCU - the films followg the Avengers Infy saga - would star a trans character.

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Kev Feige nfirmed that the film would star Marvel's first gay character.

In addn to beg a huge nerd, I also happen to be a gay man.

Who do you thk the first gay hero to h the big screen might be? I wish I had better news for you, but I’d bet all my vast rich that whichever stud adds a gay character first, will be a supportg role first. Look, ’s taken Marvel a to get up the nerve to make Back Panther and Capta Marvel movi—the ia of a film actually starrg a homosexual superhero probably sr the hell out of them.

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