Gay Superhero: 12 Inic LGBTQ Characters Marvel and DC Comics

Contents:

• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• KEV KELLER IS ARCHIE COMICS' NEW GAY SUPERHERO THE EQUALIZER
• WAR EPTS OVER NEW MARVEL BLOCKBTER’S GAY SUPERHERO
• MARVEL INTRODUC A NEW GAY SUPERHERO: CAPTA AMERI
• MARVEL REVEALS FIRST GAY ‘CAPTA AMERI’ NEW COMIC SERI
• GAY SUPERHERO
• MARVEL COMICS TO TRODUCE GAY CAPTA AMERI NEW SERI
• DC COMICS' NEW GAY SUPERHERO, THE RAY – IN HIS OWN WORDS
• HOW ‘ETERNALS’ ESTABLISH THE MCU’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO AND SAME-SEX COUPLE A MOVIE: ‘IT’S LIFE-SAVG’

15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU

When Jordan’s Green Lantern buted 1959, Stt was relegated to an alternate universe and, over the s, he’s retired, returned to crime-fightg, been tossed limbo, bee an elr statman, and been rebooted as a young gay crimefighter on yet another alternate Earth. This year, Green Lantern Alan Stt returned to his roots as an olr WWII-era hero who has “walked this Earth for a long time, much longer than should have been allotted, ” as he said March’s “Infe Frontier” the same issue, penned by bisexual wrer Jam Tynn IV, the gray-haired rg-slger out as gay to his adult children, the superhero duo Ja and Obsidian. ”Capta Ameri"The Uned Stat of Capta Ameri" ic book verMarvelIn June, Marvel’s “The Uned Stat of Capta Ameri” miseri hs stor, troducg rears to a variety of everyday people om all walks of life who’ve taken up the mantle of Capta Ameri to fend their is gay teenager Aaron Fischer, “the Capta Ameri of the Railways, ” scribed a release as “a fearls teen who stepped up to protect fellow naways and the unhoed.

KEV KELLER IS ARCHIE COMICS' NEW GAY SUPERHERO THE EQUALIZER

“I am happy to be able to prent an openly gay person who admir Capta Ameri and fights agast evil to help those who are almost visible to society, ” Bazaldua said a statement.

WAR EPTS OVER NEW MARVEL BLOCKBTER’S GAY SUPERHERO

The new Aquaman who appeared Young Jtice: Outsirs was also nfirmed to be a gay character 2019, ScreenRant reported at the time, and a wrer for DC Comics said durg an terview wh Comisy 2016 that Wonr Woman is the summer of 2019, CNN reported Valkyrie beme the first LGBTQ character to appear a Marvel movie Thor: Love and Thunr. Marvel Comics' first superhero to e out as gay was Northstar, a move the Tim praised an article published early 1992. The Eternals trailer offers the brieft of glimps at Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry), the first gay superhero a major Hollywood anchise.

MARVEL INTRODUC A NEW GAY SUPERHERO: CAPTA AMERI

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 Sleiman.In an terview, Sleiman said the climactic smooch was an emotnal moment on set, pecially given s importance to LGBTQ+ reprentatn. 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.

MARVEL REVEALS FIRST GAY ‘CAPTA AMERI’ NEW COMIC SERI

(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.

GAY SUPERHERO

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.

MARVEL COMICS TO TRODUCE GAY CAPTA AMERI NEW SERI

LGBTQ and gay superhero list:Wonr Woman (DC Comics). In Augt, was announced that the latt versn of Rob would have a boyiend while March, Marvel also ma the cisn to pass the mantle of Capta Ameri to a gay the big-screen worlds of Marvel and DC rema ls progrsive.

This November’s Eternals is set to change thgs wh the Marvel Cematic Universe’s first LGBTQ+ kiss between Brian Tyree Henry’s Phastos, the first openly gay superhero a Marvel movie, and Haaz Sleiman, who plays his hband. From Peter Parker and Mil Moral, to Gwen Stacy and a talkg rtoon pig, there's a Spiy for, Marvel Comics is troducg a brand-new LGBTQ+ Spir-Man variant s Edge Of The Spir-Verse ic is an all-new, gay superhero that's scribed as a “not-so-d mannered fashn signer" who works at Van Dyne Indtri - the pany owned by The Wasp's alter-ego, Ja Van Weaver's -creator, Eisner-nomated wrer Steve Fox, took to Twter to share his pri at havg helped brg a new kd of Spir-Man to the world (thanks, Pk News) wrote: "Surprise: I had the huge gay honour of helpg to -create Web-Weaver, who’ll make his but  Edge of the Spir-verse this September!

“Somethg I realised immediately when nceivg Web-Weaver is that he n’t – and shouldn’t – reprent ALL gay men, ” Fox explaed.

DC COMICS' NEW GAY SUPERHERO, THE RAY – IN HIS OWN WORDS

Avengers: Endgame gave the first openly gay character the Marvel Cematic Universe, but left a lot of fans (who have spent the last wag to see a gay superhero jo the Avengers) pretty unrwhelmed. Here's a selectn of openly gay Marvel characters who serve their time to she the MCU.

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

While many fans hope that Marvel Studs ntu to diversify the superhero they brg to live-actn, Eternals recently took a signifint step forward by prentg Phastos as part of the first openly gay superhero uple the MCU.

Iceman had been fightg alongsi the X-Men the ics for s before he stunned dienc by g out as gay, but fans quickly accepted his sexualy. Wh Marvel Studs hopg to fix the X-Men film anchise after acquirg om Fox, this uld be a good ll for the MCU’s first gay character. Viv’s sexualy hasn’t been nfirmed the ics, but she's kissed Ironheart and was strongly suggted that she’s eher gay or asexual when she said, “an attractn to boys is nowhere wh me.