The Rsos Say a Current MCU Character Is Canonilly Gay, But What Do That Really Mean?

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• GAY RSO
• LATT CSVO RSO2020 / 40 STORIAIDS QUILTVO RSO WAS A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST, A FILM HISTORIAN AND AN THOR BT KNOWN FOR HIS BOOK, “THE CELLULOID CLOSET,” A GROUNDBREAKG CHRONICLE OF GAYS AND LBIANS FILM.A NEW YORK CY NATIVE, RSO GREW UP EAST HARLEM. AS A YOUNG BOY, HE WOULD SNEAK TO MANHATTAN TO GO TO THE MOVI. FROM AN EARLY AGE, RSO KNEW HE WAS “DIFFERENT.” A REMEMBERS HIM ALWAYS TALKG ABOUT ROCK HUDSON RATHER THAN AVA GARDNER. AFTER GRADUATG OM NEW YORK UNIVERSY, RSO JOED THE GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE. IN THE EARLY 1970S, HE STARTED REARCH FOR “THE CELLULOID CLOSET” (1981), WHICH ENTAILED WATCHG HUNDREDS OF FILMS THAT CLUD GAY NTENT AND STEREOTYP. WHAT ORIGATED AS A LECTURE WH FILM CLIPS BEME ONE OF THE MOST RMATIVE BOOKS ABOUT GAY PEOPLE AND POP CULTURE. DIAGNOSED WH HIV 1985, RSO WAS A EQUENT PROTTOR WH ACT UP. IN 1986, RSO LOST HIS LONGTIME PARTNER, JEFEY SEVCIK, TO AIDS. OUTRAGED BY THE MEDIA’S AQUATE AND ACCURATE VERAGE OF THE PANMIC, RSO FOUND GLAAD, AN ANIZATN THAT MONORS LGBT REPRENTATN THE MEDIA. IN HIS MEMORY, GLAAD CREATED THE VO RSO MEDIA AWARD TO REGNIZE OUT LGBT MEDIA PROFSNALS WHO HAVE MA A SIGNIFINT DIFFERENCE PROMOTG EQUALY.RSO APPEARED THE 1989 AMY AWARD-WNG DOCUMENTARY, “COMMON THREADS: STORI OM THE QUILT,” ABOUT THE LIFE AND ATH OF SEVCIK AND THE QUILT RSO MA FOR HIM. A YEAR LATER, RSO DIED OM AIDS-RELATED PLITNS.  IN 1996, “THE CELLULOID CLOSET” WAS MA TO A DOCUMENTARY THAT WAS -PRODUCED AND NARRATED BY LILY TOML. IN 2012, “VO,” A FILM ABOUT RSO’S LIFE, PREMIERED ON HBO.“YOU N’T PLEAD TOLERANCE FOR GAYS BY SAYG THAT THEY’RE JT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. TOLERANCE IS SOMETHG WE SHOULD EXTEND TO PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.” – VO RSORELATED LKS• MAKG HISTORY GAY• WHY WE FIGHT• REMEMBERG VO, 25 YEARS LATER• POZ - VO RSO‍40 YEARS OF STORIWE SHARE THE IMPORTANT STORY OF AIDS --THE FEAR, STIGMA AND DISCRIMATN. WE SHARE THE STORI OF HOPE, URAGE, PASSN, AND LOVE.  AND, WE BRG TO LIGHT THE HARSH REALY THAT FOUR S LATER, THERE IS NO CURE AND THE RAT OF FECTN ARE ON THE RISE, PARTICULARLY MUNI OF LOR.VIEW STORIESLATT PROJECTS
• "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
• THE RSOS SAY A CURRENT MCU CHARACTER IS CANONILLY GAY, BUT WHAT DO THAT REALLY MEAN?
• THE RSO BROTHERS SAY A CURRENT MARVEL CHARACTER IS SECRETLY GAY
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' NTAS MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER, RSO BROTHERS EXPLA WHY
• TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–RSIAN DICTNARY
• THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY

GAY RSO

Vo Rso was a gay rights activist, a film historian and an thor bt known for his book, “The Celluloid Closet, ” a groundbreakg chronicle of gays and lbians film. After graduatg om New York Universy, Rso joed the Gay Activists Alliance. In the early 1970s, he started rearch for “The Celluloid Closet” (1981), which entailed watchg hundreds of films that clud gay ntent and stereotyp.

What origated as a lecture wh film clips beme one of the most rmative books about gay people and pop culture. “You n’t plead tolerance for gays by sayg that they’re jt like everyone else.

LATT CSVO RSO2020 / 40 STORIAIDS QUILTVO RSO WAS A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST, A FILM HISTORIAN AND AN THOR BT KNOWN FOR HIS BOOK, “THE CELLULOID CLOSET,” A GROUNDBREAKG CHRONICLE OF GAYS AND LBIANS FILM.A NEW YORK CY NATIVE, RSO GREW UP EAST HARLEM. AS A YOUNG BOY, HE WOULD SNEAK TO MANHATTAN TO GO TO THE MOVI. FROM AN EARLY AGE, RSO KNEW HE WAS “DIFFERENT.” A REMEMBERS HIM ALWAYS TALKG ABOUT ROCK HUDSON RATHER THAN AVA GARDNER. AFTER GRADUATG OM NEW YORK UNIVERSY, RSO JOED THE GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE. IN THE EARLY 1970S, HE STARTED REARCH FOR “THE CELLULOID CLOSET” (1981), WHICH ENTAILED WATCHG HUNDREDS OF FILMS THAT CLUD GAY NTENT AND STEREOTYP. WHAT ORIGATED AS A LECTURE WH FILM CLIPS BEME ONE OF THE MOST RMATIVE BOOKS ABOUT GAY PEOPLE AND POP CULTURE. DIAGNOSED WH HIV 1985, RSO WAS A EQUENT PROTTOR WH ACT UP. IN 1986, RSO LOST HIS LONGTIME PARTNER, JEFEY SEVCIK, TO AIDS. OUTRAGED BY THE MEDIA’S AQUATE AND ACCURATE VERAGE OF THE PANMIC, RSO FOUND GLAAD, AN ANIZATN THAT MONORS LGBT REPRENTATN THE MEDIA. IN HIS MEMORY, GLAAD CREATED THE VO RSO MEDIA AWARD TO REGNIZE OUT LGBT MEDIA PROFSNALS WHO HAVE MA A SIGNIFINT DIFFERENCE PROMOTG EQUALY.RSO APPEARED THE 1989 AMY AWARD-WNG DOCUMENTARY, “COMMON THREADS: STORI OM THE QUILT,” ABOUT THE LIFE AND ATH OF SEVCIK AND THE QUILT RSO MA FOR HIM. A YEAR LATER, RSO DIED OM AIDS-RELATED PLITNS.  IN 1996, “THE CELLULOID CLOSET” WAS MA TO A DOCUMENTARY THAT WAS -PRODUCED AND NARRATED BY LILY TOML. IN 2012, “VO,” A FILM ABOUT RSO’S LIFE, PREMIERED ON HBO.“YOU N’T PLEAD TOLERANCE FOR GAYS BY SAYG THAT THEY’RE JT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. TOLERANCE IS SOMETHG WE SHOULD EXTEND TO PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.” – VO RSORELATED LKS• MAKG HISTORY GAY• WHY WE FIGHT• REMEMBERG VO, 25 YEARS LATER• POZ - VO RSO‍40 YEARS OF STORIWE SHARE THE IMPORTANT STORY OF AIDS --THE FEAR, STIGMA AND DISCRIMATN. WE SHARE THE STORI OF HOPE, URAGE, PASSN, AND LOVE.  AND, WE BRG TO LIGHT THE HARSH REALY THAT FOUR S LATER, THERE IS NO CURE AND THE RAT OF FECTN ARE ON THE RISE, PARTICULARLY MUNI OF LOR.VIEW STORIESLATT PROJECTS

“We wanted to be sual, wh the fact that the character is gay tied to the fabric of the storytellg and reprentg what everyday life is, ” Joe told Deadle. Acrdg to a new terview wh Entertament Weekly published on Wednday, Anthony and Joe Rso claim that a character the dience already knows will be revealed as gay a future film. For example, an unnamed gay character played by Joe Rso appeared a brief scene  Avengers: Endgame.

When asked to clarify if this character was “the first out gay character” a Marvel film, Joe replied, “Y, openly gay. There’ve been suatns about other characters’ sexualy, but this is the first openly gay character.

"AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE

“There is a gay character g up one of their films, and I thk Kev [Feige, Marvel Studs print] will make that announcement, I’m sure pretty soon, ” Joe told EW. In 2018, he said at least two openly gay characters would be revealed future MCU films. Assumg that Joe Rso’s character  Endgame was one of the characters, then who else will get to be nonilly gay?

Can the ostensibly straight guys have a gay bromance? Kev Feige wh Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Srlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Mark Ruffalo (Cred: Willy Sanjuan/Invisn/AP)Avengers: Endgame directors the Rso brothers have revealed that Marvel Studs will soon reveal that one of the current MCU characters is secretly gay.

Dpe some sexual tensn between Mark Ruffalo's Bce Banner and Srlett Johansson's Natasha Romanoff (and Steve Rogers pg over Peggy Carter) the Avengers films are largely sexls 's perhaps no great surprise that if one of them is gay, 's not really figured the overall story more: Eight new Marvel movi datedHowever, that's soon to change. Speakg to Entertament Weekly's EW Morng Live, director Joe Rso was discsg his meo Avengers: appears the scene which Steve Rogers is – for reasons entirely unexplaed – sudnly employed a group therapist to a bunch of 's the guy who speaks about losg his partner, but has sce been on a date, though 's one that volved cryg a he's gay is – pleasgly – not picked up on the slightt, and the terview wh EW, Rso explas that this guy is the first 'openly gay' character the seri (though that's pretty shabby self, nsirg the st of thoands over 22 movi). (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)Nohels, he says: “Y, openly gay.

THE RSOS SAY A CURRENT MCU CHARACTER IS CANONILLY GAY, BUT WHAT DO THAT REALLY MEAN?

”Asked 'who else is gay? Read more: What Endgame’s endg means for the MCU’s future“There is a gay character g up one of their films, and I thk Kev [Feige, MCU boss] will make that announcement, I’m sure pretty soon.

”Ined, Feige has said there will be openly gay characters bluntly by The Playlist if some LGBT characters were on the way, he said bluntly 'Y', and then when asked if was someone we've already seen, he add 'both'. ” But really was a life cut short: Rso, a film scholar and gay-rights activist, was 44 when he died of AIDS 1990. The likable, energetic gadfly who emerg here would have been a great voice to have on hand today, providg an rmed perspective on the sweepg chang Amerin culture has seen the last few wasn’t an stigator at the Stonewall uprisg of 1969, but he immersed himself gay-rights issu soon after, beg a proment voice on the New York scene.

In a clip early the film he mak clear what separated him om generatns of gay people before him. “I don’t know what was different about the way I was raised or the way I reacted, ” he says, “but I never once, not for a send, believed that was wrong to be gay, that was a s, that homosexualy was evil.

THE RSO BROTHERS SAY A CURRENT MARVEL CHARACTER IS SECRETLY GAY

“He was fully equipped wh ias and arguments, and he was ready to take you on, ” David Ehrenste, a wrer and fellow member of the Gay Activists Alliance, rells the ’s versn of gay liberatn wasn’t one that mastream Ameri uld endorse, then or now, but was of urse a pre-AIDS view. “And Vo was of a generatn when havg sex wh as many men as you possibly uld was a way of exprsg gay pri. ” His telligence and fearlsns put him at the center of the gay-rights movement, but he was also by tablishg himself as a televisn host and a film scholar, creatg a popular lecture which he showed how surprisgly open movi before Hollywood’s Productn Co were about homosexualy and then how gay people were subtly monized the films that me after.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

Schwarz’s film is nothg fancy — the ual mix of historil imag and terviews wh acquatanc and experts — and Rso, perhaps, was not so different om other gay activists who were silenced by AIDS. But the smooth tellg of Rso’s story juxtaposed agast the prent day, when gay marriage is sanctned some stat and gay characters are all over prime-time televisn, driv home how different the cultural landspe is om the one Rso knew.

'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' NTAS MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER, RSO BROTHERS EXPLA WHY

Not wh all the discrimatn and homophobia that rema.

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He was also a film lover and had wrten "The Celluloid Closet" which exposed how early film-makers Hollywood were rtricted om beg direct about gay characters their film is superb many ways - not only for the fascatg subject but mostly for the amazg film footage and photos ed throughout. “In some ways, I was proud to be a spokperson for children of gay parents, ” she says.

TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–RSIAN DICTNARY

But one of the more subtle elements excg fans is the fact the film ntas the MCU’s first openly gay character. “It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them. “We wanted to be sual, wh the fact that the character is gay tied to the fabric of the storytellg and reprentg what everyday life is, ” Joe Rso said.

“We’ve seen now even untri where people untri where homosexualy isn’t as ee as is here, ” Anthony Rso said. AVENGERS: ENDGAME has the seri' first openly gay character, say the headl!

— Kaila Sarah Hier (@cleverrgirrl) April 25, 2019Sure, the film uld do more, but hopefully this is the first step to more reprentatn the future, wh Kev Feige sayg characters ‘we’ve seen and characters we haven’t seen’ will be wh Hercul of The Eternals moured to be the MCU’s first openly gay superhero, looks like reprentatn is here to stay. Three s after she found herself the middle of a landmark legal battle between a lbian uple and the gay sperm donor who sued them for paterny and visatn rights, filmmaker Ry Rso-Young has exvated her own fay history wh the help of old photos, home movi and -pth terviews the new HBO doceri “Nuclear Fay. Instead, Sandy Rso and Rob Young — a lbian uple livg New York Cy — were troduced to two gay men livg California who were willg to donate their sperm to help the women start their gave birth to Rso-Young 1981 g sperm donated by one of those men, a proment civil rights attorney named Tom Steel; Rso had given birth to a dghter named Ca a year earlier g sperm donated by the other man, Jack Cole.

THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY

“So if a gay man was a donor and a dispute wh a lbian uple or a sgle lbian mother, the law regnized that relatnship over any other partnership or nonblogil fay member. ’”While they might now have different opns about the lawsu, Rso-Young and her mothers all agreed that a signifint amount of progrs has been ma to advance LGBTQ rights the last 40 years, pecially wh the legalizatn of same-sex marriage and the normalizatn and stabily of gay fai the Uned Stat.

“Even the prs that we did after the lawsu was helpful to normalizg gay fai, bee seeg a lbian fay on the 6 o’clock news was jt somethg that didn’t happen, ” she said. ”And while she acknowledg that the world has changed her lifetime, wh gay fai gog om “this hidn, renega, DIY thg that barely existed to mastream societal acceptance, ” Rso-Young hop that her documentary seri “will also help propel to ntue fg rights for LGBTQ fai.

”“I thk we still have far to go, bee I don’t thk we realize how there are still not protectns for gay fai all stat, ” she said.