‘The Old Guard’ Is a Rerd-Shatterg Succs—So Let’s Stop Beg Squeamish About Gay Superhero

Contents:

• ‘Q-FORCE’ TRAILER: SEAN HAY LEADS NETFLIX’S GAY ANIMATED SUPERHERO COMEDY
• Q-FORCE'S FIRST TRAILER WANTS ON ALL THE CORPORATE GAY PANRG
• IN CELEBRATN OF NICKY AND JOE, THE OLD GUARD’S GAY SUPERHERO
• GAY SUPERHERO
• ‘THE OLD GUARD’ IS A RERD-SHATTERG SUCCS—SO LET’S STOP BEG SQUEAMISH ABOUT GAY SUPERHEROYOUR MOVE, MARVELTHE NETFLIX ACTNER HAS ALREADY BROKEN TO THE STREAMG GIANT’S MOST-WATCHED TL—PROVG ONCE AND FOR ALL THAT VIEWERS ARE READY TO SEE MORE GAY CHARACTERS THIS GENRE.LRA BRADLEYSENR ENTERTAMENT REPORTERUPDATED JUL. 18, 2020 2:48PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 18, 2020 2:18PM EDT AIMEE SPKS/NETFLIXREMEMBER THAT TIME MARVEL BOSS KEV FEIGE SAID WE’D HAVE A GAY SUPERHERO WH THE NEXT AND WE WERE SUPPOSED TO CLAP? OR THE TIME MARVEL GAVE A BISEXUAL THOR: RAGNAROK CHARACTER BUT THEN FAILED TO MAKE HER SEXUALY EXPLICLY CLEAR THE ACTUAL MOVIE? OR THE TIME DC MA UNTLS BATMAN MOVI THAT NY THE OBV FACT THAT THE PED CSAR AND ROB ARE TOTALLY, PLETELY, AND GLORLY GAY?SUPERHERO FILMS HAVE A LONG LEGACY OF SQUEAMISHNS WHEN TO ANY WHIFF OF QUEERNS. IN RECENT YEARS, AS VIEWERS ACROSS ALL GENR LL FOR BETTER REPRENTATN OF ALL INTI, STUDS HAVE LTERED THEIR FILMS WH MOMENTS AND CHARACTERS THEY SIST ARE QUEER—WHILE REFG TO MAKE THAT KNOWN WH THE MOVI THEMSELV. AS E. OLIVER WHNEY NOTED HIS EXCELLENT SURVEY OF THE GENRE, STUDS THK, EVEN NOW, THAT STG A GAY LEAD A SUPERHERO FILM IS A FANCIAL RISK. SO THANK THE GAY GODS FOR NETFLIX’S MOST RECENT SMASH H THE OLD GUARD—A SUPERHERO MOVIE THAT STARS NOT ONE BUT MULTIPLE QUEER LEADS, AND HAS ALREADY MA S WAY TO THE STREAMG GIANT’S TOP 10 MOST-WATCHED TL LIST. ALTHOUGH NETFLIX’S -NTEXTUALIZED VIEWERSHIP STATISTICS SHOULD ALWAYS BE TAKEN WH A GRA OF SALT, THEY REMA A EFUL TOOL TO MEASURE THE PARATIVE SUCCS OF VAR TL AGAST ONE ANOTHER. AND AS NETFLIX HAS NFIRMED, THE OLD GUARD HAS ALREADY CRACKED TO S TOP 10 LIST WH JT ONE WEEK OF S RELEASE. NETFLIX TIMAT THAT THE FILM IS ON TRACK TO REACH 72 LN HOEHOLDS WH S FIRST FOUR WEEKS ON THE PLATFORM. GRANTED, NETFLIX FIGUR MAKE IMPOSSIBLE TO MEASURE HOW MANY HOEHOLDS WATCHED AN ENTIRE FILM, RATHER THAN JT THE FIRST TWO MUT. AND GIVEN THAT THE FILM WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO ANY NETFLIX SUBSCRIBER EE OF CHARGE, WE NNOT EQUATE THOSE NUMBERS TO POSSIBLE TICKET SAL. STILL, THE OLD GUARD’S BUZZY BUT—AND THE EFFIVE NVERSATNS GENERATED ABOUT S GAY LEADS—SEEMS TO PROVE THAT ANY SQUEAMISHNS AROUND QUEER SUPERHERO IS AS UNFOUND AS ALWAYS SEEMED.AS MY LLEAGUE KEV FALLON NOTED HIS RAVE FOR THE OLD GUARD, ONE ULD WRG THEIR HANDS OVER WHETHER OR NOT THE FILM REALLY UNTS AS A SUPERHERO JOT. THE FILM FOLLOWS A CREW OF FIGHTERS WHO DO NOT FLY AROUND THE SKY OR WEAR SPANX. BUT CHARLIZE THERON AND HER CREW ARE ALSO IMMORTAL—AND THE FILM’S CENTRAL FOC, APART OM S ACTN, IS THE EXISTENTIAL QUTN OF WHAT ONE SHOULD DO WH IMMORTALY, AND HOW TO RENCILE THE ISOLATN EVABLY BREEDS. THAT’S A THEME STRAIGHT OUT OF SUPERHERO 101.BUT WHAT’S REALLY REMARKABLE ABOUT THE OLD GUARD IS THAT DIRECTOR GA PRCE-BYTHEWOOD DON’T JT FEATURE GAY CHARACTERS, BUT ALSO TELLS THEIR STORI NVCGLY AND EMPATHETILLY. THE FILM’S CENTRAL GAY UPLE, JOE AND NICKY, NSTANTLY EXPRS NCERN AND AFFECTN FOR ONE ANOTHER WAYS THAT FEEL GENUE. AND WHEN THEY’RE PTURED, JOE REF TO ALLOW THEIR HOMOPHOBIC PTORS MOCK THEIR LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER BY LLG NICKY HIS “BOYIEND.”“THIS MAN IS MORE TO ME THAN YOU N DREAM,” HE SAYS, LLG THE GUARD A “CHILD.” “HE’S THE MOON WHEN I’M LOST DARKNS AND WARMTH WHEN I SHIVER LD. AND HIS KISS STILL THRILLS ME, EVEN AFTER A LENNIA. HIS HEART OVERFLOWS WH THE KDNS THIS WORLD IS NOT WORTHY OF. I LOVE THIS MAN BEYOND MEASURE AND REASON. HE’S NOT MY BOYIEND. HE’S ALL AND HE’S MORE.” AND AS FALLON NOT HIS REVIEW, THERON’S WORLD-WEARY CHARACTER, ANDY, MIGHT NOT BE EXPLICLY QUEER, BUT HER BOND WH HER FELLOW IMMORTAL AND LONGTIME IEND QUYNH SURE RGS LIKE A BROKEN QUEER ROMANCE. (I’M GUSG THGS WILL GET A LOT CLEARER ON THAT ONT WHENEVER THE OLD GUARD’S EVABLE SEQUEL BUTS.) IT’S UNNIABLE THAT THE OLD GUARD’S EXQUISE QUEERNS IS LARGELY POSSIBLE BEE ME OM OUTSI THE DC AND MARVEL MACHE. BUT NOW THAT OUT-AND-PROUD GAY CHARACTERS HAVE SMASHED THEIR WAY THROUGH THE SUPERHERO GENRE’S GAT, THERE’S NO GOG BACK. IT’S TIME FOR MAJOR STUDS TO UNLEASH THE GAYS! IN ENURAGG NEWS, MARVEL’S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS ALREADY ON HIS WAY. 2021’S THE ETERNALS WILL FEATURE ATLANTA AND WIDOWS ACTOR BRYAN TYREE HENRY AS A MARRIED GAY HERO, PHASTOS, WHO ALSO HAS A FAY. THE FILM WILL ALSO FEATURE MARVEL’S FIRST GAY KISS. BUT GIVEN DISNEY-OWNED ANCHIS’ HISTORY WH TALKG UP DISAPPOTG GAY KISS, YOU’LL HAVE TO FIVE ME FOR REMAG SKEPTIL UNTIL I SEE THE FILM FOR MYSELF. IN THE MEANTIME, THREE CHEERS FOR THE OLD GUARD. LRA BRADLEY
• NETFLIX DROPS ‘Q-FORCE’ TRAILER: QUEER SUPERHERO ANIMATED EDY FEATUR GAY SUPERSPY AGENT MARY AND HIS SCRAPPY LGBTQ SQUAD

‘Q-FORCE’ TRAILER: SEAN HAY LEADS NETFLIX’S GAY ANIMATED SUPERHERO COMEDY

The fight for LGBTQ+ rights has led to same sex marriage, anti-discrimatn laws, the repeal of the trans ary ban, and fally — gay superhero. Created by Gabe Liedman, wrer on “Pen15” and Jenny Slate’s former edy partner, “Q-Force” follows a group of misf telligence agents who take matters to their own hands when the higher ups try to bury their gays. “Steve Maryweather, AKA Agent Mary, was once the Goln Boy of the Amerin Intelligence Agency (AIA), until he me out as gay.

Q-FORCE'S FIRST TRAILER WANTS ON ALL THE CORPORATE GAY PANRG

Agent Maryweather is voiced by “Will & Grace” star Sean Hay, and he is joed by an all-star voice st of edy legends and newers, straight and gay. Inial cricism of the first teaser highlighted the panrg humor, tokenizg stereotyp, and alphabet soup melange of lowt mon nomator gay jok. The seri has many LGBTQ+ characters, but two of the most proment are Lo and Nomi, a gay man and transgenr lbian woman, rpectively, and the seri tak time to lve to their inti.

The two's sweet and gradual relatnship has been highly praised by viewers, as has the troductn of Jeremy Chetri, a gay scientist who helps the team season 2.

IN CELEBRATN OF NICKY AND JOE, THE OLD GUARD’S GAY SUPERHERO

One of the bt relatnships Shadowhunters is between gay Shadowhunter, Alec Lightwood, and bisexual warlock, Magn Bane, wh storyl that span the whole of the show. The Phantoms' dmmer, Alex is revealed to be gay the seri' send episo, a nonchalant moment that feels rehg. AIMEE SPINKS/NETFLIX © 2020 Netflix’s The Old Guard did twice one film what the MCU uldn’t an entire saga: put a gay superhero on the big screen.

Nicky and Joe’s romance is the gay love story sorely missg om every major actn ’s been jt over a week sce Ga Prce-Blythewood’s The Old Guard h Netflix, and we’re not ashamed to adm that, that time, we’ve gone om sual fans to full-blown obssiv over . Nicky and Joe are not only both strong, pable fighters who don’t e anywhere near the stereotyp typilly associated wh media portrayals of gay men, but they’re also both men who e om different religns, and who have spent over a thoand years a lovg, healthy a media landspe where queer trma seems to be the only way that so many shows and movi feel they n rporate their gay characters, ’s credibly rehg to see two out and proud men who are love and whose relatnship and fah each other never falters.

Nicky and Joe are unaaid to show their love and be timate, which is why ’s wonrful to see them turn around and kick major ass the send a fight breaks far too long there’s been a false ia that gay men are “effemate” or “weak, ” but Nicky and Joe prove that you n be a skilled assass and still be head over heels love wh your soulmate, makg dramatic love proclamatns when bigoted guards try to poke fun at you.

GAY SUPERHERO

Although The Old Guard may seem to some like standard superhero actn fare, s portrayal of gay men is so far ahead of the rt of s genre ntemporari that we’re crossg our fgers for the next film the anchise to be greenl ASAP. ‘Q-Force’ Trailer: Sean Hay Leads Netflix’s Gay Animated Superhero ComedyAh, progrs.

The first teaser for the animated edy spired major si-eye om queer social media ers, and now Netflix is throwg a full official trailer to the ’s the official synopsis, per Netflix:“Steve Maryweather, Aka Agent Mary, was once the Goln Boy of the Amerin Intelligence Agency (Aia), until he me out as gay. A gay superhero!

‘THE OLD GUARD’ IS A RERD-SHATTERG SUCCS—SO LET’S STOP BEG SQUEAMISH ABOUT GAY SUPERHEROYOUR MOVE, MARVELTHE NETFLIX ACTNER HAS ALREADY BROKEN TO THE STREAMG GIANT’S MOST-WATCHED TL—PROVG ONCE AND FOR ALL THAT VIEWERS ARE READY TO SEE MORE GAY CHARACTERS THIS GENRE.LRA BRADLEYSENR ENTERTAMENT REPORTERUPDATED JUL. 18, 2020 2:48PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 18, 2020 2:18PM EDT AIMEE SPKS/NETFLIXREMEMBER THAT TIME MARVEL BOSS KEV FEIGE SAID WE’D HAVE A GAY SUPERHERO WH THE NEXT AND WE WERE SUPPOSED TO CLAP? OR THE TIME MARVEL GAVE A BISEXUAL THOR: RAGNAROK CHARACTER BUT THEN FAILED TO MAKE HER SEXUALY EXPLICLY CLEAR THE ACTUAL MOVIE? OR THE TIME DC MA UNTLS BATMAN MOVI THAT NY THE OBV FACT THAT THE PED CSAR AND ROB ARE TOTALLY, PLETELY, AND GLORLY GAY?SUPERHERO FILMS HAVE A LONG LEGACY OF SQUEAMISHNS WHEN TO ANY WHIFF OF QUEERNS. IN RECENT YEARS, AS VIEWERS ACROSS ALL GENR LL FOR BETTER REPRENTATN OF ALL INTI, STUDS HAVE LTERED THEIR FILMS WH MOMENTS AND CHARACTERS THEY SIST ARE QUEER—WHILE REFG TO MAKE THAT KNOWN WH THE MOVI THEMSELV. AS E. OLIVER WHNEY NOTED HIS EXCELLENT SURVEY OF THE GENRE, STUDS THK, EVEN NOW, THAT STG A GAY LEAD A SUPERHERO FILM IS A FANCIAL RISK. SO THANK THE GAY GODS FOR NETFLIX’S MOST RECENT SMASH H THE OLD GUARD—A SUPERHERO MOVIE THAT STARS NOT ONE BUT MULTIPLE QUEER LEADS, AND HAS ALREADY MA S WAY TO THE STREAMG GIANT’S TOP 10 MOST-WATCHED TL LIST. ALTHOUGH NETFLIX’S -NTEXTUALIZED VIEWERSHIP STATISTICS SHOULD ALWAYS BE TAKEN WH A GRA OF SALT, THEY REMA A EFUL TOOL TO MEASURE THE PARATIVE SUCCS OF VAR TL AGAST ONE ANOTHER. AND AS NETFLIX HAS NFIRMED, THE OLD GUARD HAS ALREADY CRACKED TO S TOP 10 LIST WH JT ONE WEEK OF S RELEASE. NETFLIX TIMAT THAT THE FILM IS ON TRACK TO REACH 72 LN HOEHOLDS WH S FIRST FOUR WEEKS ON THE PLATFORM. GRANTED, NETFLIX FIGUR MAKE IMPOSSIBLE TO MEASURE HOW MANY HOEHOLDS WATCHED AN ENTIRE FILM, RATHER THAN JT THE FIRST TWO MUT. AND GIVEN THAT THE FILM WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO ANY NETFLIX SUBSCRIBER EE OF CHARGE, WE NNOT EQUATE THOSE NUMBERS TO POSSIBLE TICKET SAL. STILL, THE OLD GUARD’S BUZZY BUT—AND THE EFFIVE NVERSATNS GENERATED ABOUT S GAY LEADS—SEEMS TO PROVE THAT ANY SQUEAMISHNS AROUND QUEER SUPERHERO IS AS UNFOUND AS ALWAYS SEEMED.AS MY LLEAGUE KEV FALLON NOTED HIS RAVE FOR THE OLD GUARD, ONE ULD WRG THEIR HANDS OVER WHETHER OR NOT THE FILM REALLY UNTS AS A SUPERHERO JOT. THE FILM FOLLOWS A CREW OF FIGHTERS WHO DO NOT FLY AROUND THE SKY OR WEAR SPANX. BUT CHARLIZE THERON AND HER CREW ARE ALSO IMMORTAL—AND THE FILM’S CENTRAL FOC, APART OM S ACTN, IS THE EXISTENTIAL QUTN OF WHAT ONE SHOULD DO WH IMMORTALY, AND HOW TO RENCILE THE ISOLATN EVABLY BREEDS. THAT’S A THEME STRAIGHT OUT OF SUPERHERO 101.BUT WHAT’S REALLY REMARKABLE ABOUT THE OLD GUARD IS THAT DIRECTOR GA PRCE-BYTHEWOOD DON’T JT FEATURE GAY CHARACTERS, BUT ALSO TELLS THEIR STORI NVCGLY AND EMPATHETILLY. THE FILM’S CENTRAL GAY UPLE, JOE AND NICKY, NSTANTLY EXPRS NCERN AND AFFECTN FOR ONE ANOTHER WAYS THAT FEEL GENUE. AND WHEN THEY’RE PTURED, JOE REF TO ALLOW THEIR HOMOPHOBIC PTORS MOCK THEIR LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER BY LLG NICKY HIS “BOYIEND.”“THIS MAN IS MORE TO ME THAN YOU N DREAM,” HE SAYS, LLG THE GUARD A “CHILD.” “HE’S THE MOON WHEN I’M LOST DARKNS AND WARMTH WHEN I SHIVER LD. AND HIS KISS STILL THRILLS ME, EVEN AFTER A LENNIA. HIS HEART OVERFLOWS WH THE KDNS THIS WORLD IS NOT WORTHY OF. I LOVE THIS MAN BEYOND MEASURE AND REASON. HE’S NOT MY BOYIEND. HE’S ALL AND HE’S MORE.” AND AS FALLON NOT HIS REVIEW, THERON’S WORLD-WEARY CHARACTER, ANDY, MIGHT NOT BE EXPLICLY QUEER, BUT HER BOND WH HER FELLOW IMMORTAL AND LONGTIME IEND QUYNH SURE RGS LIKE A BROKEN QUEER ROMANCE. (I’M GUSG THGS WILL GET A LOT CLEARER ON THAT ONT WHENEVER THE OLD GUARD’S EVABLE SEQUEL BUTS.) IT’S UNNIABLE THAT THE OLD GUARD’S EXQUISE QUEERNS IS LARGELY POSSIBLE BEE ME OM OUTSI THE DC AND MARVEL MACHE. BUT NOW THAT OUT-AND-PROUD GAY CHARACTERS HAVE SMASHED THEIR WAY THROUGH THE SUPERHERO GENRE’S GAT, THERE’S NO GOG BACK. IT’S TIME FOR MAJOR STUDS TO UNLEASH THE GAYS! IN ENURAGG NEWS, MARVEL’S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS ALREADY ON HIS WAY. 2021’S THE ETERNALS WILL FEATURE ATLANTA AND WIDOWS ACTOR BRYAN TYREE HENRY AS A MARRIED GAY HERO, PHASTOS, WHO ALSO HAS A FAY. THE FILM WILL ALSO FEATURE MARVEL’S FIRST GAY KISS. BUT GIVEN DISNEY-OWNED ANCHIS’ HISTORY WH TALKG UP DISAPPOTG GAY KISS, YOU’LL HAVE TO FIVE ME FOR REMAG SKEPTIL UNTIL I SEE THE FILM FOR MYSELF. IN THE MEANTIME, THREE CHEERS FOR THE OLD GUARD. LRA BRADLEY

Now some superhero are beg portrayed as clearly gay -- showg that jtice, whether on a smic level or an terpersonal one, is somethg worth fightg for. 2, “Q-Force” follows Steve Maryweather (voiced by Sean Hay), an Amerin Intelligence Agency officer who out as gay, after which his superrs relote him to Wt Hollywood, California, hopg he’ll fa to obscury. Creator Gabe Liedman said he se “Q-Force” as a “gay Jam Bond” that reflects the hop and ncerns of the LGBTQ muny at large.

Wai nfirmed that K is gay an Instagram Live, but said he won't get a romantic tert anytime soon as he was once "eply love and lost that love along the le" and "don't feel brave enough to fd love aga.

NETFLIX DROPS ‘Q-FORCE’ TRAILER: QUEER SUPERHERO ANIMATED EDY FEATUR GAY SUPERSPY AGENT MARY AND HIS SCRAPPY LGBTQ SQUAD

Wicn (who is nonilly gay) and Speed (who is nonilly bisexual) are Wanda and Visn's tw sons who grow up to bee queer members of the superhero group Young Avengers. The first gay MCU character to have an onscreen kiss didn't appear until Eternals 2021, thirteen years after Iron Man kicked off the MCU.

His sexualy is never nfirmed, but as he's played by Firstman, wears one earrg, and referenc Mulan and The Devil Wears Prada, we're pretty sure he's gay. While his sexualy is never spoken about the seri, he's based on a ic book character who was also portrayed as gay.

This TV show, based on the 2014 film of the same name, stars DeRon Horton as Lnel Higgs, an telligent, gay school reporter who has trouble breakg out of his shell.