8 Marvel Characters Who Could Be The MCU's First Gay Hero | Cemablend

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• MARVEL’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO DEFEATS EVIL, MAK HISTORY ETERNALS TRAILER
• HOW ‘ETERNALS’ ESTABLISH THE MCU’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO AND SAME-SEX COUPLE A MOVIE: ‘IT’S LIFE-SAVG’
• LEE DANIELS REVEALS HE'S MAKG A GAY SUPERHERO FILM
• WHO WILL BE THE FIRST GAY SUPERHERO THE MOVI?
• ETERNALS STAR REVEALS MARVEL'S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO, CONFIRMS ON-SCREEN KISS
• WAR EPTS OVER NEW MARVEL BLOCKBTER’S GAY SUPERHERO
• HOW ‘ETERNALS’ ESTABLISH THE MCU’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO AND SAME-SEX COUPLE A MOVIE: ‘IT’S LIFE-SAVG’
• THE MARVEL CEMATIC UNIVERSE MIGHT BE GETTG ITS FIRST GAY LEAD HERO SOONER THAN EXPECTED
• A GAY SUPERHERO WOULD FALLY GIVE LGBTQ KIDS THE REPRENTATN THEY NEED — SO WHY ARE WE STILL WAG?
• 8 MARVEL CHARACTERS WHO COULD BE THE MCU'S FIRST GAY HERO
• ‘ETERNALS’ REPORTEDLY PULLED SDI ARABIA AND GULF NATNS OVER GAY SUPERHERO
• MARVEL’S NEW ‘ETERNALS’ VIO HIGHLIGHTS THE MCU’S FIRST GAY UPLE

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

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.

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) om VarietyBill Murray Says He's Appearg 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania''Eternals' Director Chloé Zhao Explas How She Got Superman the MCU'Eternals' Review: Chloé Zhao's Marvel Movie Is Fely Crafted but Need More of Her Personaly to Be MarveloIt marks the first time a Marvel Studs film has showsed a same-sex uple — and one of the only tim any superhero movie has clud a tle LGBTQ character.

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.

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

Disney has been que a b of hot, gay water recent years. 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?

LEE DANIELS REVEALS HE'S MAKG A GAY SUPERHERO FILM

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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. First 'Exclively Gay Moment:' LeFou 'Bety and the Beast' (2017).

WHO WILL BE THE FIRST GAY SUPERHERO THE MOVI?

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.

ETERNALS STAR REVEALS MARVEL'S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO, CONFIRMS ON-SCREEN KISS

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. 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.

WAR EPTS OVER NEW MARVEL BLOCKBTER’S GAY SUPERHERO

First Gay Superhero the MCU: Phastos 'Eternals' (2021).

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

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.

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).

THE MARVEL CEMATIC UNIVERSE MIGHT BE GETTG ITS FIRST GAY LEAD HERO SOONER THAN EXPECTED

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. 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.

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

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.

8 MARVEL CHARACTERS WHO COULD BE THE MCU'S FIRST GAY HERO

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).

‘ETERNALS’ REPORTEDLY PULLED SDI ARABIA AND GULF NATNS OVER GAY SUPERHERO

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.

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.

MARVEL’S NEW ‘ETERNALS’ VIO HIGHLIGHTS THE MCU’S FIRST GAY UPLE

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).