The Rsos and Kev Feige claim another gay character will be revealed a future MCU film, but what n we really expect?
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- THE RSOS SAY A CURRENT MCU CHARACTER IS CANONILLY GAY, BUT WHAT DO THAT REALLY MEAN?
- Y, DANAI GURIRA’S OKOYE ‘BLACK PANTHER’ WILL DEFELY BE GAY
THE RSOS SAY A CURRENT MCU CHARACTER IS CANONILLY GAY, BUT WHAT DO THAT REALLY MEAN?
Marvel Comics wrer Roxane Gay offers her thoughts on the bate regardg who'd w a fight between Black Panther's Okoye and Wonr Woman. * is okoye gay in the comics *
K is gay. This clud Brian Tyree Henry’s Phastos, who beme the first openly gay super-powered hero the MCU. Words by Roxanne Gay and Ta-Nehisi Coat, art by Alha Martez and Rachelle Rosenberg.
In Roxane Gay's n of World of Wakanda, Dora Milaje warrrs Ayo (played by Florence Kasumba Black Panther) and Aneka are shown to be a lbian relatnship. 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. Wai nfirmed that K is gay an Instagram Live, but said he won't get a romantic tert anytime soon as he was once "eply love and lost that love along the le" and "don't feel brave enough to fd love aga.
Wicn (who is nonilly gay) and Speed (who is nonilly bisexual) are Wanda and Visn's tw sons who grow up to bee queer members of the superhero group Young Avengers. The first gay MCU character to have an onscreen kiss didn't appear until Eternals 2021, thirteen years after Iron Man kicked off the MCU.
Y, DANAI GURIRA’S OKOYE ‘BLACK PANTHER’ WILL DEFELY BE GAY
* is okoye gay in the comics *
His sexualy is never nfirmed, but as he's played by Firstman, wears one earrg, and referenc Mulan and The Devil Wears Prada, we're pretty sure he's gay.
While his sexualy is never spoken about the seri, he's based on a ic book character who was also portrayed as gay.
Marvel's Black Panther is one of the good on – we love , crics love , and 's already breakg MCU 's possible we may have loved even more if hadn't cut a scene that uld have troduced Marvel's first on-screen gay a screeng of early footage om the film last year, Vany Fair noted that there was one scene that featured Danai Gurira's Okoye and Florence Kasumba's Ayo sharg a brief moment of flirtatn, suggtg that Black Panther was takg spiratn om an LGBTQ+ love story featured the World of Wakanda StudsMarvel later reached out to the publitn to say that Okoye and Ayo's relatnship the film was not a romantic one, and that the storyle the ic was not ed as a source for the movie. "And not long before that, Jam Gunn had hted at a gay character makg their Marvel but Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, only to then backtrack. Have you ever watched a TV show or movie and thought to yourself, "This would be better if was gayer"?