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Contents:

• MARVEL’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO DEFEATS EVIL, MAK HISTORY ETERNALS TRAILER
• NORTHSTAR – THE FIRST GAY SUPERHERO
• HOW DC REEMED THEIR FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPERHERO
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• WHO WAS THE FIRST GAY SUPERHERO? — THE ROUGH ROAD TO MARVEL’S NORTHSTAR
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• NORTHSTAR, MARVEL’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• WHO WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPERHERO? — IN DEFENSE OF DC COMICS’ EXTRAñO
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY

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

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. Northstar’s publitn history shows a cross sectn of 40 years of the Uned Stat’s mastream view of the gay muny.

NORTHSTAR – THE FIRST GAY SUPERHERO

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 Perhaps seemed that to keep the first out gay man was a potls exercise, pecially one so mired outdated stereotyp.

HOW DC REEMED THEIR FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPERHERO

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. Love and (gay) marriage, go together like a billn-dollar the steady rollout of news surroundg Marvel's The Eternals, Print Kev Feige nfirmed durg this weekend's D23 Expo that the film will clu the stud's first openly gay male superhero.

The Chloe Zhao-directed movie will ci wh a love tert for the nonilly bisexual superhero Valkyrie (Tsa Thompson), whose romantic backstory was cut om Thor: Ragnarok but will be clud the next Feige did not announce stg for the character or state which member of the humanoid clan would be LGBTQ+, he did add a pretaped Monday terview wh Good Morng Ameri that Marvel's first gay superhero would also be gettg a partner. Guardians of the Galaxy director Jam Gunn hted at an LGBTQ+ character the anchise's send stallment before almost immediately backpedalg, while Thor: Ragnarok don't mentn that the rock monster K (voiced by director Taika Wai a brief meo) is gay. WhileAvengers: Endgame had a gay character, the moment was strictly blk-and-you'll-miss .

"It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

In celebratn of Pri Month, let’s take a look at the key issu featurg Northstar, the first gay superhero.

For Northstar, Byrne chose to make him the first gay superhero. While much of this is crgeworthy when read today, the 1980s was cuttg edge to have a character that most rears unrstood to be gay, even if was never overtly stated.

In a ic that was big news 1992, Northstar, after many years, let the world know that he was gay the pag of Alpha Flight #106. Bis beg the first gay superhero, Northstar also was one of the celebrants the first same-sex weddg to be shown superhero ics.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Northstar, never a hugely popular character, do have a unique spot ic book history as the first gay superhero.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

While many of the early tal of his homosexualy read as very dated ics today, someone had to take the first step, even if they appear as stumbl now. How DC Reemed Their First Openly Gay Superhero.

DC's first gay character, Extraño, was an embodiment of negative stereotyp when he buted before beg revented as an excg character.

WHO WAS THE FIRST GAY SUPERHERO? — THE ROUGH ROAD TO MARVEL’S NORTHSTAR

Their first attempt at an openly gay hero, Extraño, was a maniftatn of negative stereotyp about gay men. That beg said, Extraño also embodied every stereotype about gay men that existed at the time.

Steve Orlando wanted to brg back Gregor for a new generatn of rears, lettg them see a gay character live and love their own way that wasn't a bad joke. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn.

Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report. And sce, at the time, he’d temporarily taken over as Superman while his father was off-world, generated headl about Superman beg gay. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

NORTHSTAR, MARVEL’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO

Major profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay. Last Febary, Maxen nnected wh lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay 2021, as he navigated a path forward. Now that we’ve vered the LGBTQ ic book basics, and the first mastream, openly gay superhero, Extraño, ’s time to take a look at the (sort of) first mastream gay superhero: Northstar.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Then, over the urse of rearchg how Northstar beme the poster boy for closeted gays, this post took a fun ltle tour.

Wrer and artist John Byrne nsirs himself to have created the first gay superhero Northstar, a character who first appeared a uple issu of The Unnny X-Men. One of the characters should be gay, and Northstar was his logil choice. But while Byrne may have thought was time for a gay superhero, Marvel edor--chief Jim Shooter had very different ias.

He had, reportedly, stuted a ban on homosexual portrayals throughout his tenure the ’80s. The Gay Panic Defense.

WHO WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPERHERO? — IN DEFENSE OF DC COMICS’ EXTRAñO

If you haven’t, here’s a quick ndown: Bce is attacked the YMCA showers by two predatory gay men tent on filg him. From makg one of the first forays to homosexualy one of vlence and gay panic, to pictns that lean heavily to stereotyp and borrle ritur, ’s jt a nightmare. #25 – Even the Natnal Gay Task Force stepped to prott.

Stereotypg gay characters as beg straight out of a gay panic fever dream was not his problem, sce he jt wanted to tell a personal story. It left a mark on him, and dig around onle enough and you’ll fd those who suggt that the ban on homosexual portrayals was a direct rponse to the backlash he got om his Hulk story.

So how necsary was his extra cree for Marvel’s ic le that was subject to the Co, sce the CCA didn’t drop their own ban on homosexual ntent until 1989?

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY

The gay slope is a slippery one, after all.

None of this is to say Jim Shooter is homophobic, pecially as this was, aga, almost 40 years ago. But at the time, he wasn’t exactly creatg a welg environment for the gay muny or his gay rears. We’ll get to the part above that had pissed off that particular gay rear, but why not take a tour first to an earlier part of the TCJ terview?

Fun fact: One of Byrne’s first ic-type projects was creatg an openly gay superhero!