Contents:
- IS SHURI GAY? THE PRCS OF WAKANDA’S SEXUALY EXPLAED
- ROXANE GAY'S 'WORLD OF WAKANDA': HOW SNDAL SPIRED THE NEW MARVEL IC
- ‘BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER’ BANNED CHA FOR HAVG GAY CHARACTERS
- OPEN MENUVIOSHOPWELLNSFOODCULTUREFAYLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICY — YOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS — CHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICY — INTERT-BASED ADS — TERMS OF USE — DO NOT SELL MY INFO — CONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHMI STRONG: CHARI TO SUPPORT WILDFIRE RELIEF EFFORTSCULTUREMARVELNOVEMBER 4, 2022'BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER' EXPLOR LATO FUTUR, QUEER REPRENTATN7:55MARVEL STUDSBEHD THE SCEN OF ‘WAKANDA FOREVER’BY KENDALL ROSS, ROBERT ZEPEDASHARE —SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTERS TO GET GMA LIVERED TO YOUR BOX EVERY MORNG!IN THE WAKE OF BELOVED ACTOR CHADWICK BOSEMAN'S ATH 2020, SPECULATN OF WHO WOULD ASSUME THE ROLE OF THE BLACK PANTHER HAS BEEN ON THE MDS OF FANS ACROSS THE GLOBE. WHILE THE CHARACTERS OF "BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER" GRAPPLE WH THE LOSS OF KG T'CHALLA, THE SEND FILM THE "BLACK PANTHER" ANCHISE TAK ON EVEN MORE, TRODUCG NEW CHARACTERS, STORYL, AND WORLDS TO DIENC.THE MOVIE WILL BE OUT THEATERS ON NOV. 11.MORE: ANGELA BASSETT SAYS CHADWICK BOSEMAN HAS 'MAGNIFICENT PRENCE' 'BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER'TENOCH HUERTA MEJIA PLAYS FIERCE ANTIHERO NAMOR ON A MISSN TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE OF TALON, A LATOFUTURISTIC MAYAN-SPIRED UNRWATER KGDOM AT ODDS WH WAKANDA. IN AN TERVIEW WH FOR UPG 20/20 SPECIAL "BLACK PANTHER: IN SEARCH OF WAKANDA," HUERTA SAID THAT TAKG ON THE CHARACTER OF NAMOR ALLOWED HIM TO RENNECT AND RENCILE WH HIS OWN "MTIZO" BACKGROUND FLUENCED BY THE NSEQUENC OF LONIAL NQUT AND RACISM LAT AMERI.EDOR'S PICKS1'BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER' HAPPY MEAL HS THE MENU AT MCDONALD'SNOVEMBER 3, 20222RIHANNA RELEAS 'LIFT ME UP' OM 'BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER' SOUNDTRACKOCTOBER 28, 20223MAC JOS FORC WH MARVEL STUDS FOR 'BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER' SPIRED MAKP LLECTNNOVEMBER 1, 2022"WHEN I WAS A KID MEXI, I NEVER DREAMED [OF] SOMETHG LIKE THIS," HE SAID, HAVG SEEN LTLE REPRENTATN OF BROWN SK TV AND FILM THROUGHOUT HIS CHILDHOOD. "I NEVER SAW ANYONE LIKE ME MOVI, OR TV, OR PUBLICY MEXI."WATCH THE ABC NEWS STUDS AND ROCK’N ROB PRODUCTNS SPECIAL, “20/20 PRENTS BLACK PANTHER: IN SEARCH OF WAKANDA,” HOSTED BY ROB ROBERTS, ON FRIDAY, NOV. 4 AT 8 P.M. ET/7 P.M. CT AND STREAM THE NEXT DAY ON HULU.HE HOP TALON AND HIS PORTRAYAL OF NAMOR, THE FIRST IC BOOK ANTIHERO, WILL BE AN EXAMPLE TO KIDS AND OTHERS OF THE LAT AMERIN AND AIN DIASPORAS.MARVEL STUDSALEX LIVALLI AS ATTUMA AND MABEL CANA AS NAMORA MARVEL STUDS' BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER."THIS IS WHO WE ED TO BE AND THIS IS WHO WE N BE THE FUTURE," HE ADD. "WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNY TO… MAKE DIFFERENT. AND I HOPE THIS MOVIE NTRIBUT [TO] THAT FEELG.""IT'S TIME TO REGNIZE THOSE WOUNDS, AND THEN HEAL THE BREAKS OUR HEART, AND KEEP GOG, AND EMBRACE WHO WE ARE."DIRECTOR RYAN COOGLER SAID AN TERVIEW WH "GOOD MORNG AMERI" THAT THE TEAM BEHD THE FILM SET OUT TO LVE EPER TO WAKANDA AND S CHARACTERS WHILE ALSO GIVG DIENC "THAT SAME FEELG' OF BEG TRODUCED TO SOMETHG NEW.""TALON PROVID THAT, YOU KNOW, TENFOLD," HE SAID.AMY AWARD-WNG PRODUCTN SIGNER HANNAH BEACHLER TOLD "GMA" THAT THE PARALLELS BETWEEN WAKANDA'S LD AOFUTURISTIC FEEL AND TALON WERE ROOTED A NSC CISN EXPLORG THE QUTN OF WHAT IS AND WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN."AOFUTURISM IS TAKG AN IA OR THE THG THAT HAPPENED AND REIMAGG WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN, WHAT IS THE FICTN, THE SCI-FI FICTN BEHD WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED?" SHE SAID. "THE PARALLELS BETWEEN [TALON] AND WAKANDA ARE THE SAME."THE SPANISH NQUT OF THE MAYA THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURI AND THE LONIZATN THAT FOLLOWED VASTATED INDIGENO POPULATNS MOAMERI. BEACHLER SAYS THE "TENSE" REARCH OF MOAMERIN CULTUR RANGG OM 900 B.C. TO THE 1700S, AND HOW THE TALON WOULD HAVE MIGRATED TO AN UNRWATER REALM WAS A NECSARY PART OF THE WORLD-BUILDG BEHD THE FILM."IT'S, YOU KNOW, NOT SOMETHG THAT WE'RE MAKG UP OR DISVERG. IT'S THERE, AND WE'RE BEG FLUENCED BY THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, I THK THAT FOR ME, AGA, WAS ABOUT HONORG THIS CULTURE, DOG RIGHT."NATE MOORE, A PRODUCER ON THE FILM AND VICE PRINT OF PRODUCTN AND VELOPMENT AT MARVEL STUDS, TOLD "GMA" HE WAS "ALWAYS STCK" BY THE ORIGAL "BLACK PANTHER" ICS AND THEIR UNMON PICTN OF AIN EXCEPTNALISM, ADDG THAT BOSEMAN WAS AN SENTIAL PART OF SHOWG THAT ON-SCREEN THE FIRST FILM."CHADWICK WAS SUCH AN TEGRAL PART OF WHY T'CHALLA WAS WHO HE WAS," HE SAID. "SO, WHEN HE PASSED, THAT LOSS WAS FELT PRETTY ACUTELY, VERY QUICKLY TO THE POT WHERE YOU ALMOST NSIRED WHETHER OR NOT MA SENSE TO EVEN MAKE ANOTHER MOVIE.""BUT MAYBE THE MOVIE HAS TO AL WH THE LOSS OF T'CHALLA THE SAME WAY THAT WE'RE ALG WH THE LOSS OF CHADWICK."MORE: LUPA NYONG'O SAYS 'BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER' IS 'MOVG, DARG AND LIFE-AFFIRMG'SPEAKG ON THE NEED TO EMBRACE THE WORLD WH THE FILM REALY AND THE PRODUCTN'S ENAVORS TO MOVE THE STORY FORWARD, MOORE DISCSED QUEER CHARACTER, ANEKA (MICHAELA COEL), AND HER CLN THE MOVIE AT A TIME WHEN LGBTQ+ RIGHTS ARE BEG NTTED."I THK 'S LS ABOUT AN TENTNAL MSAGE AND MORE ABOUT A TTH TO THE CHARACTER," HE SAID. "SO, RATHER THAN SHG A GIANT LANTERN ON , 'S LIKE, NO, THIS IS JT A TAPTRY OF LIFE."MARVEL MOVIE "ETERNALS" (2021) IS BANNED SDI ARABIA, QATAR, AND KUWA FOR S CLN OF A SAME-GENR RELATNSHIP BETWEEN SUPERHERO VENTOR PHASTOS AND HIS HBAND BEN. "DOCTOR STRANGE THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNS" WAS ALSO BANNED SDI ARABIA, EGYPT, AND KUWA FOR THE CLN OF LBIAN CHARACTERS AMERI CHAVEZ AND HER TWO MOMS."IN WAKANDA, 'S NOT A AL AT ALL," MOORE NTUED. "I'M NSC OF HOW IMAG N TRAVEL AND AFFECT CHANGE...SOMETIM MAKG THGS NORMAL IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THG YOU N DO."MORE: MICHAELA COEL TALKS IMPORTANCE OF PLAYG QUEER CHARACTER 'BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER'MARVEL STUDS PRINT KEV FEIGE TOLD "GMA" THE FILM IS EMBLEMATIC OF MARVEL'S ONGOG MISSN TO MAKE S WORKS "A REFLECTN OF THE WORLD AS IS"."THERE'S A SAYG AT MARVEL FOR S AND S THE IC BOOKS, WHICH IS, 'THE MARVEL UNIVERSE REPRENTS THE WORLD OUTSI OUR WDOWS,' " HE SAID."AND THAT IS WHAT THE MOVIE IS ABOUT, 'S ABOUT THE LOSS OF T'CHALLA. AND, AT THE SAME TIME, LIKE WE ALL HAD TO PERSEVERE THE REAL WORLD, THE CHARACTERS THE MOVIE NEED TO FD A WAY TO NTUE … THE OTHER CHARACTERS AND THIS WORLD OF WAKANDA SERVE TO LIVE ON."WATCH THE ABC NEWS STUDS AND ROCK’N ROB PRODUCTNS SPECIAL, “20/20 PRENTS BLACK PANTHER: IN SEARCH OF WAKANDA,” HOSTED BY ROB ROBERTS, ON FRIDAY, NOV. 4 AT 8 P.M. ET/7 P.M. CT AND STREAM THE NEXT DAY ON HULU.MARVEL IS OWNED BY DISNEY, THE PARENT PANY OF ABC NEWS AND "GOOD MORNG AMERI".SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTERS TO GET GMA LIVERED TO YOUR BOX EVERY MORNG!UP NEXT CULTUREBRNEY SPEARS OPENS UP AFTER HBAND FIL FOR DIVORCE: 'I'M A LTLE SHOCKED'
IS SHURI GAY? THE PRCS OF WAKANDA’S SEXUALY EXPLAED
Meanwhile, Chavez (Xochl Gomez) herself, who intifi as a lbian the ics, do wear an LGBTQ+ badge durg the movie but the film don't explore her own biggt form of LGBTQ+ reprentatn me "Eternals, " which premiered last year, where one of the hero Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) is married to a man and has the first on-screen gay kiss. Even Sdi Arabia, where homosexualy is illegal, will show the forehead kiss. Recent blockbters such as “Thor: Love and Thunr, ” “Doctor Strange the Multiverse of Madns” and “Wt Si Story” reportedly didn’t make to Sdi theaters bee of same-genr kiss and gay or transgenr characters.
She add that “by my beg Ghanaian, Ghanaians will e”, and that she wanted to provi a posive LGBTQ+ portrayal for those the untry, where is illegal to be gay. This trend n also be spotted the recent Thor: Love and Thunr, which director Taika Wai claimed was “super gay” but ntaed ltle actual LGBTQ+ romance.
Until then, Bety and the Beast (2017) director Bill Condon ma ments that l the ter on fire wh the announcement that LeFou (Josh Gad) would be the subject of an "exclively gay scene". On paper, makg LeFou gay do make some sense given his undyg loyalty to Gaston (Le Evans), so 's a change that uld work if done right and perhaps even help the remake (that nobody asked for) set self apart om the origal.
ROXANE GAY'S 'WORLD OF WAKANDA': HOW SNDAL SPIRED THE NEW MARVEL IC
What is that "exclively gay scene" you ask?
Rampant plot hol, poor explanatns for characters somehow returng and most relevant to today's topic, an out-of-nowhere gay kiss scene that means absolutely nothg to the overall story. The part-prequel/part-sp-off tellg the origs of inic space ranger Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) started a firtorm when, around the time of Disney's Florida ntroversy, was revealed that Disney had cut a gay kiss om the then-upg Pixar film.
So, is Shuri gay?
‘BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER’ BANNED CHA FOR HAVG GAY CHARACTERS
Is Shuri gay, straight, or bisexual the ics?
All that led fans to believe that Shuri wasn’t gay, bisexual, or even straight. Is Shuri gay, straight, or bisexual the MCU? I know that fans have cheered on a potential relatnship between Riri Williams and Shuri, claimg that both are Gay or at least bi.
Words by Roxanne Gay and Ta-Nehisi Coat, art by Alha Martez and Rachelle Rosenberg.
OPEN MENUVIOSHOPWELLNSFOODCULTUREFAYLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICY — YOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS — CHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICY — INTERT-BASED ADS — TERMS OF USE — DO NOT SELL MY INFO — CONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHMI STRONG: CHARI TO SUPPORT WILDFIRE RELIEF EFFORTSCULTUREMARVELNOVEMBER 4, 2022'BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER' EXPLOR LATO FUTUR, QUEER REPRENTATN7:55MARVEL STUDSBEHD THE SCEN OF ‘WAKANDA FOREVER’BY KENDALL ROSS, ROBERT ZEPEDASHARE —SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTERS TO GET GMA LIVERED TO YOUR BOX EVERY MORNG!IN THE WAKE OF BELOVED ACTOR CHADWICK BOSEMAN'S ATH 2020, SPECULATN OF WHO WOULD ASSUME THE ROLE OF THE BLACK PANTHER HAS BEEN ON THE MDS OF FANS ACROSS THE GLOBE. WHILE THE CHARACTERS OF "BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER" GRAPPLE WH THE LOSS OF KG T'CHALLA, THE SEND FILM THE "BLACK PANTHER" ANCHISE TAK ON EVEN MORE, TRODUCG NEW CHARACTERS, STORYL, AND WORLDS TO DIENC.THE MOVIE WILL BE OUT THEATERS ON NOV. 11.MORE: ANGELA BASSETT SAYS CHADWICK BOSEMAN HAS 'MAGNIFICENT PRENCE' 'BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER'TENOCH HUERTA MEJIA PLAYS FIERCE ANTIHERO NAMOR ON A MISSN TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE OF TALON, A LATOFUTURISTIC MAYAN-SPIRED UNRWATER KGDOM AT ODDS WH WAKANDA. IN AN TERVIEW WH FOR UPG 20/20 SPECIAL "BLACK PANTHER: IN SEARCH OF WAKANDA," HUERTA SAID THAT TAKG ON THE CHARACTER OF NAMOR ALLOWED HIM TO RENNECT AND RENCILE WH HIS OWN "MTIZO" BACKGROUND FLUENCED BY THE NSEQUENC OF LONIAL NQUT AND RACISM LAT AMERI.EDOR'S PICKS1'BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER' HAPPY MEAL HS THE MENU AT MCDONALD'SNOVEMBER 3, 20222RIHANNA RELEAS 'LIFT ME UP' OM 'BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER' SOUNDTRACKOCTOBER 28, 20223MAC JOS FORC WH MARVEL STUDS FOR 'BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER' SPIRED MAKP LLECTNNOVEMBER 1, 2022"WHEN I WAS A KID MEXI, I NEVER DREAMED [OF] SOMETHG LIKE THIS," HE SAID, HAVG SEEN LTLE REPRENTATN OF BROWN SK TV AND FILM THROUGHOUT HIS CHILDHOOD. "I NEVER SAW ANYONE LIKE ME MOVI, OR TV, OR PUBLICY MEXI."WATCH THE ABC NEWS STUDS AND ROCK’N ROB PRODUCTNS SPECIAL, “20/20 PRENTS BLACK PANTHER: IN SEARCH OF WAKANDA,” HOSTED BY ROB ROBERTS, ON FRIDAY, NOV. 4 AT 8 P.M. ET/7 P.M. CT AND STREAM THE NEXT DAY ON HULU.HE HOP TALON AND HIS PORTRAYAL OF NAMOR, THE FIRST IC BOOK ANTIHERO, WILL BE AN EXAMPLE TO KIDS AND OTHERS OF THE LAT AMERIN AND AIN DIASPORAS.MARVEL STUDSALEX LIVALLI AS ATTUMA AND MABEL CANA AS NAMORA MARVEL STUDS' BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER."THIS IS WHO WE ED TO BE AND THIS IS WHO WE N BE THE FUTURE," HE ADD. "WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNY TO… MAKE DIFFERENT. AND I HOPE THIS MOVIE NTRIBUT [TO] THAT FEELG.""IT'S TIME TO REGNIZE THOSE WOUNDS, AND THEN HEAL THE BREAKS OUR HEART, AND KEEP GOG, AND EMBRACE WHO WE ARE."DIRECTOR RYAN COOGLER SAID AN TERVIEW WH "GOOD MORNG AMERI" THAT THE TEAM BEHD THE FILM SET OUT TO LVE EPER TO WAKANDA AND S CHARACTERS WHILE ALSO GIVG DIENC "THAT SAME FEELG' OF BEG TRODUCED TO SOMETHG NEW.""TALON PROVID THAT, YOU KNOW, TENFOLD," HE SAID.AMY AWARD-WNG PRODUCTN SIGNER HANNAH BEACHLER TOLD "GMA" THAT THE PARALLELS BETWEEN WAKANDA'S LD AOFUTURISTIC FEEL AND TALON WERE ROOTED A NSC CISN EXPLORG THE QUTN OF WHAT IS AND WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN."AOFUTURISM IS TAKG AN IA OR THE THG THAT HAPPENED AND REIMAGG WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN, WHAT IS THE FICTN, THE SCI-FI FICTN BEHD WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED?" SHE SAID. "THE PARALLELS BETWEEN [TALON] AND WAKANDA ARE THE SAME."THE SPANISH NQUT OF THE MAYA THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURI AND THE LONIZATN THAT FOLLOWED VASTATED INDIGENO POPULATNS MOAMERI. BEACHLER SAYS THE "TENSE" REARCH OF MOAMERIN CULTUR RANGG OM 900 B.C. TO THE 1700S, AND HOW THE TALON WOULD HAVE MIGRATED TO AN UNRWATER REALM WAS A NECSARY PART OF THE WORLD-BUILDG BEHD THE FILM."IT'S, YOU KNOW, NOT SOMETHG THAT WE'RE MAKG UP OR DISVERG. IT'S THERE, AND WE'RE BEG FLUENCED BY THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, I THK THAT FOR ME, AGA, WAS ABOUT HONORG THIS CULTURE, DOG RIGHT."NATE MOORE, A PRODUCER ON THE FILM AND VICE PRINT OF PRODUCTN AND VELOPMENT AT MARVEL STUDS, TOLD "GMA" HE WAS "ALWAYS STCK" BY THE ORIGAL "BLACK PANTHER" ICS AND THEIR UNMON PICTN OF AIN EXCEPTNALISM, ADDG THAT BOSEMAN WAS AN SENTIAL PART OF SHOWG THAT ON-SCREEN THE FIRST FILM."CHADWICK WAS SUCH AN TEGRAL PART OF WHY T'CHALLA WAS WHO HE WAS," HE SAID. "SO, WHEN HE PASSED, THAT LOSS WAS FELT PRETTY ACUTELY, VERY QUICKLY TO THE POT WHERE YOU ALMOST NSIRED WHETHER OR NOT MA SENSE TO EVEN MAKE ANOTHER MOVIE.""BUT MAYBE THE MOVIE HAS TO AL WH THE LOSS OF T'CHALLA THE SAME WAY THAT WE'RE ALG WH THE LOSS OF CHADWICK."MORE: LUPA NYONG'O SAYS 'BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER' IS 'MOVG, DARG AND LIFE-AFFIRMG'SPEAKG ON THE NEED TO EMBRACE THE WORLD WH THE FILM REALY AND THE PRODUCTN'S ENAVORS TO MOVE THE STORY FORWARD, MOORE DISCSED QUEER CHARACTER, ANEKA (MICHAELA COEL), AND HER CLN THE MOVIE AT A TIME WHEN LGBTQ+ RIGHTS ARE BEG NTTED."I THK 'S LS ABOUT AN TENTNAL MSAGE AND MORE ABOUT A TTH TO THE CHARACTER," HE SAID. "SO, RATHER THAN SHG A GIANT LANTERN ON , 'S LIKE, NO, THIS IS JT A TAPTRY OF LIFE."MARVEL MOVIE "ETERNALS" (2021) IS BANNED SDI ARABIA, QATAR, AND KUWA FOR S CLN OF A SAME-GENR RELATNSHIP BETWEEN SUPERHERO VENTOR PHASTOS AND HIS HBAND BEN. "DOCTOR STRANGE THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNS" WAS ALSO BANNED SDI ARABIA, EGYPT, AND KUWA FOR THE CLN OF LBIAN CHARACTERS AMERI CHAVEZ AND HER TWO MOMS."IN WAKANDA, 'S NOT A AL AT ALL," MOORE NTUED. "I'M NSC OF HOW IMAG N TRAVEL AND AFFECT CHANGE...SOMETIM MAKG THGS NORMAL IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THG YOU N DO."MORE: MICHAELA COEL TALKS IMPORTANCE OF PLAYG QUEER CHARACTER 'BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER'MARVEL STUDS PRINT KEV FEIGE TOLD "GMA" THE FILM IS EMBLEMATIC OF MARVEL'S ONGOG MISSN TO MAKE S WORKS "A REFLECTN OF THE WORLD AS IS"."THERE'S A SAYG AT MARVEL FOR S AND S THE IC BOOKS, WHICH IS, 'THE MARVEL UNIVERSE REPRENTS THE WORLD OUTSI OUR WDOWS,' " HE SAID."AND THAT IS WHAT THE MOVIE IS ABOUT, 'S ABOUT THE LOSS OF T'CHALLA. AND, AT THE SAME TIME, LIKE WE ALL HAD TO PERSEVERE THE REAL WORLD, THE CHARACTERS THE MOVIE NEED TO FD A WAY TO NTUE … THE OTHER CHARACTERS AND THIS WORLD OF WAKANDA SERVE TO LIVE ON."WATCH THE ABC NEWS STUDS AND ROCK’N ROB PRODUCTNS SPECIAL, “20/20 PRENTS BLACK PANTHER: IN SEARCH OF WAKANDA,” HOSTED BY ROB ROBERTS, ON FRIDAY, NOV. 4 AT 8 P.M. ET/7 P.M. CT AND STREAM THE NEXT DAY ON HULU.MARVEL IS OWNED BY DISNEY, THE PARENT PANY OF ABC NEWS AND "GOOD MORNG AMERI".SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTERS TO GET GMA LIVERED TO YOUR BOX EVERY MORNG!UP NEXT CULTUREBRNEY SPEARS OPENS UP AFTER HBAND FIL FOR DIVORCE: 'I'M A LTLE SHOCKED'
Now Gay, along wh poet Yona Harvey, make Marvel history as the first black women to wre for Marvel. In their seri, World of Wakanda, Gay tells tal of the Dora Milaje, the Wakandan royal fay’s ele all-women fightg guard, while Harvey foc on female revolutnary Zenzi, who fights for her untry’s rights. “Historilly, the Dora Milaje have served the Black Panther loyally and whout qutn, ” says Gay of Wakanda’s polil climate when the seri kicks off.
9, EW ught up wh Gay to discs wrg her first ic, her storytellg fluenc, and who she’d like to see pen their own ic. GAY: When Ta-Nehisi first approached me, I jt knew that I wanted to wre fierce women who uld be as timidatg as they are trigug. After askg if they were on good terms and receivg nfirmatn they were om Aneka, the scene has had some nfn around homosexualy recently, what wh their 17 "first gay characters" and their attempts at mimizg LGBTQ+ reprentatn their films, so 's likely they played more to the cisn than those who head the Marvel Cematic are still plenty of characters wh the MCU who fall on the LGBTQ+ spectm one way or the other, but Disney's attempts to appease groups who oppose homosexualy uld further the divi and e more Panther: Wakanda Forever is set to h the Disney+ streamg platform on Febary 1.