Kev Keller is Archie Comics' New Gay Superhero The Equalizer - IGN

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.

“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. 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.

KEV KELLER IS ARCHIE COMICS' NEW GAY SUPERHERO THE EQUALIZER

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. 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. (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. 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.

WAR EPTS OVER NEW MARVEL BLOCKBTER’S GAY SUPERHERO

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). 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.

MARVEL INTRODUC A NEW GAY SUPERHERO: CAPTA AMERI

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.

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. 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.

MARVEL REVEALS FIRST GAY ‘CAPTA AMERI’ NEW COMIC SERI

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.

” The MCU uld easily portray the character as gay. There was speculatn that Hercul would be a lead  The Eternals when Marvel announced that the film would star a gay lead, but the reference was stead to Phastos. Phyla-Vell was first intified as gay when she admted to and acted on her attractn towards Moondragon.

GAY SUPERHERO

In any discsn of who will be the first openly gay superhero the MCU, ’s important to mentn the first openly gay superhero Marvel Comics. Northstar was a landmark character for ic book history bee he was one of the first gay superhero, the first to e out a Marvel book, and 2012, he beme the first character to have a same-sex weddg a mastream ic.

MARVEL COMICS TO TRODUCE GAY CAPTA AMERI NEW SERI

Phastos may be half of the first openly gay relatnship the Marvel Cematic Universe, but Negasonic Teenage Warhead was part of the first gay superhero uple all of superhero cema several years earlier. The two shared the first gay kiss between major characters a Marvel ic back X-Force #45 while Rictor was huntg for Multiple Man New England.

Rictor has also dated women the Marvel Universe, such as Wolfsbane and Boom Boom, but he stated X-Force #20 that he always knew ep down that he was gay. And sce, at the time, he’d temporarily taken over as Superman while his father was off-world, generated headl about Superman beg gay. The Equalizer will but Kev Keller #14, out May his ceptn as Archie's first gay character, Kev has been followed by a storm of ntroversy about his sexualy, which mak the posive msage of a young teen g out to his iends and beg supported by his parents more pertent than ever.

Now he jos the lik of Batwoman and Northstar on ics' ever-growg list of gay sat down wh Kev Keller creator, wrer, and artist Dan Parent to hear how Kev be a superhero, the sign choic that helped create his stume, and the msage he wants to send wh this superhero story. DP: Well, first of all, we had to pick out a name for him, and sce he is gay and stands for equaly, he wants to help everybody.

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

We're not jt talkg about s of homophobia; we're talkg about when some downtrodn person gets hurt. We haven't even really said if he's gay or not, but Kev's totally enamored wh him.

He had a lot of growg pas like a lot of kids, pecially wh beg gay on top of , was more of a challenge.

Kev's parents have been a big prence the book, and I thk that's great to show a posive relatnship between parents and kids when they e out as gay.

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

You said, "Maybe not every gay teen has an ial experience like Kev has Riverdale... Actor Haaz Sleiman, who me out as gay 2017, plays character Ben “Eternals” who is the hband of superhero Phastos. “Eternals” also hosts the most diverse lp of any Marvel movie, cludg not only a first openly gay fay, but actors of many different ethnic backgrounds and the first af superhero.

This also isn’t Marvel’s first attempt at diversifyg s films; an openly gay character was clud “Avengers: Endgame, ” and the star character of “Loki, ” a seri on Disney Pl, is bisexual. Celebratg their 80thanniversary, Marvel Comics will release a new limed seri that will clu a gay superhero to mark Pri Month: Capta seri, tled, “The Uned Stat of Capta Ameri, ” created by wrer Christopher Catwell and artist Dale Eaglham, will show the prototype Capta Ameri, Steve Rogers, joed by other Capta Ameris om Marvel’s past, cludg Bucky Barn, John Walker, and Sam Wilson, and one newly-created versn of the hero named Aaron Fischer, of whom Marvel stated, “Marvel Comics is proud to honor Pri Month wh the rise of this new LGBTQ+ hero. ”Tjillo’s webse not, “In 2020, he ntributed to the Ignatz award-wng anthology Be Gay, Do Comics.