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"The New Mutants" featur three major ton for the LGBTQ+ reprentatn superhero films, cludg the first gay kiss the genre.

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MARVEL’S ICEMAN JT ME OUT AS GAY

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10 Iceman Is The Most Popular Gay X-Man. Debutg 1963's X-Men #1 (wrten by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby), the gay X-Men was the send member to be reced by Profsor X.

Iceman was only recently revealed as gay a story handled somewhat clumsily 2014's All-New X-Men #40 (wrten by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Mahmud Asrar). Neverthels, wrers as far back as the 1980s hted that Bobby was gay, particularly the 1990s when Iceman stggled wh his sense of inty.

6 Northstar Is Marvel's First Gay Hero.

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While Iceman is certaly Marvel's most popular gay mutant, Northstar was the first. Northstar me out 1992's Alpha Flight #106 by wrer Stt Lobll and artist Mark Pancella, makg him Marvel's first gay superhero.

Northstar: One of the first gay mutants, Northstar ma headl worldwi wh his marriage to Kyle Jd 2012. Benjam Deeds: Deeds is one of the most recent X-Men to e out as gay, havg exhibed powers durg a pro-mutant rally on his llege mp.

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After fightg numero battl, Coloss forms a platonic iendship wh the (still gay) Northstar. Unfortunately, this universe's Nightcrawler is outwardly homophobic and hurtful toward Coloss, never creatg the iendly bonds they form the ma Marvel Howlett: Another alternate universe mutant, this versn of Wolvere lted after the god Hercul. However, as the X-Men universe, the characters are part of is not currently a part of the Marvel Cematic Universe (MCU), the MCU is still whout LGBTQ+ first gay character ma a blk-and-you'll-miss- appearance a group unselg ssn attend by Capta Ameri (Chris Evans) Avengers: Endgame.

The first LGBTQ+ superhero, meanwhile, are reportedly gog to be a gay male character the upg Eternals and a trans character a yet-to-be-revealed Marvel movie. Speakg of the very brief gay kiss Star Wars Episo IX: The Rise of Skywalker, the director said to TooFab: "It was jt somebody the background and [the filmmakers] were like, 'We'll put out articl as if this is somethg you should pay attentn to.

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And on Wednday, November 4, he me out as a gay man the pag of Unnny X-Men No. 600 (a follow-up to last April's reveal that a younger versn of the character was gay — more on this a b).

This edorial move mak one of Marvel's most inic and high-profile hero a gay man — a ttament to the pany's ongog missn to clu more diversy and make sure s ic books reflect the real world.

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