The Most Inic Gay Superhero In Comics & Movi

Contents:

• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
• 20 GAY GREEK GODS
• GAY SUPERHERO IN COMICS & MOVI YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

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. 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.

20 GAY GREEK GODS

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.

GAY SUPERHERO IN COMICS & MOVI YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Set the same Gotham Cy more well-known for ped csars like Batman and Rob, Batwoman is the first superhero TV show whose lead character is an openly gay woman. So when the teen Jean Grey tak the teen Iceman asi 2015's All-New X-Men #40 to reveal that she knows he's gay, there is also an olr versn of Iceman out there the world who has been datg women for his entire adult life. In Alpha Flight #106, durg a battle wh the World War II era superhero Major Mapleleaf, Northstar adms that he's gay.

Curtis Holt, played by Echo Kellum, has been an openly gay man sce his first appearance on CW's Arrow, though he wasn't always a superhero. The hero were noteworthy for not only beg some of the earlit openly gay hero, but for beg obv reflectns of Batman and Superman.

Karma, is one of the foundg members of the New Mutants — the junr X-Men team — and an openly gay superhero.

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

So was particularly and wonrfully subversive to base the two young gay men on hero — Hulk and Thor — who are known to regularly beat the tar out of one another.

Another difference between him and the more space-worthy Hal Jordan is that 2012's Earth 2 #2, we learned Alan Stt is gay. In 2019's Avengers #26, Marvel revealed s Earth's very first gay uple clud a member of s prehistoric Avengers. The MCU jt troduced 's first gay superhero last year, and we're seeg more and more gay hero on though 's simply fictn, we all know know how spirg your favore superhero n be.

At a time where lawmakers across the natn are phg homophobic and transphobic legislatn and rhetoric, 's important to have out gay and bi hero like the our TV are 12 gay and bi male superhero we jt n't get enough of. There he teams up wh another gay hero, The Ray, to fight agast the New Reichsmen, a supervilla-led dictatorship that l the earth. Q-Force Agent Steve Merryweather is the bt spy the untry, but bee he's gay, he was relegated to stg Wt Hollywood whout a missn.