Marvel’s Gay Superhero: The MCU’s LGBTQ Promis and Problems – IndieWire

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From Iceman to Hulklg and Moondragon, Marvel boasts a whole array of openly gay characters who would be smash-hs the MCU.

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

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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. Iceman — was a gay man, and the way unfold was unique a way that uld only happen a superhero ic. 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.

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How uld he be gay if his future unterpart isn't? In 1992, Marvel Comics ma history wh s first openly gay superhero.

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. Ameri Chavez is a lbian raised by a gay uple — and she's also one of Marvel's most powerful superhero. Karma, is one of the foundg members of the New Mutants — the junr X-Men team — and an openly gay superhero.

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I thought you were the Gay/Lbian Alliance, " and fli away. 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. It isn't clear whether Kaldur intifi as gay or bisexual.

It uld be that he's bisexual, or that those earlier stanc he hadn't yet e to accept his homosexualy. 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.

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