Comic books now clu a fair number of gay and lbian characters, but spe the bt efforts of fans, Capta Ameri is not among them.
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- MARVEL TO BUT GAY CAPTA AMERI CHARACTER DURG PRI MONTH
- MARVEL REVEALS FIRST GAY ‘CAPTA AMERI’ NEW COMIC SERI
- CAPTA AMERI IS STRAIGHT, BUT ICS HAVE MANY GAY CHARACTERS
MARVEL TO BUT GAY CAPTA AMERI CHARACTER DURG PRI MONTH
Marvel announced that the first gay Capta Ameri the superhero’s 80-year history will be revealed an upg issue. * gay captain america fan art *
Marvel Comics unveiled s first gay Capta Ameri character this week — and is set to but the role June durg Pri Month, a report said.
“As a transgenr person, I am happy to be able to prent an openly gay person who admir Capta Ameri and fights agast evil to help those who are almost visible to society, ” Bazaldua said.
Aaron Fischer, a gay teenager, will be the first, the new limed seri, released scribed Fischer, who will be the “Capta Ameri of the Railways”, as “a fearls teen who stepped up to protect fellow naways and the unhoed”, wh his but timed to ci wh Pri Month the US. “As a transgenr person, I am happy to be able to prent an openly gay person who admir Capta Ameri and fights agast evil to help those who are almost visible to society, ” said Bazaldua.
MARVEL REVEALS FIRST GAY ‘CAPTA AMERI’ NEW COMIC SERI
”Marvel reportedly had a “No Gays the Marvel Universe” policy the 1980s and, the 1990s, placed an “Adults Only” label on any ics featurg proment LGBTQ+ characters rponse to nservative protts. The publisher’s first gay character, Northstar of the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight, was planned as such by creator John Byrne 1979, but his sexualy was not revealed on the page until recent years, Marvel has moved to diversify s st of superhero. And 2015, Iceman, one of the origal X-Men created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby back 1963, me out as gay.
New character Aaron Fischer is "an openly gay person who admir Capta Ameri and fights agast evil to help those who are almost visible to society, " artist says. Marvel announced that the first gay Capta Ameri the superhero’s 80-year history will be revealed an upg issue. The limed seri’ artist Jan Bazaldua said a statement, “As a transgenr person, I am happy to be able to prent an openly gay person who admir Capta Ameri and fights agast evil to help those who are almost visible to society.
Marvel didn’t unveil s first gay character until 1992 wh Northstar. In A Queer History of the Uned Stat, Michael Bronski explas how the disciple of sexology the 1880s led to “the scientific disvery of ‘homosexualy, ’” creatg the opportuny for “open discsn about the subject.
CAPTA AMERI IS STRAIGHT, BUT ICS HAVE MANY GAY CHARACTERS
” Unfortunately, Bronski ntu, this new language “immediately led to a clear articulatn of negative stereotyp about homosexuals. ”Later, the Amerin ary tried to block gay men and women om enlistg durg World War II by classifyg queerns as a psychiatric disorr. Allan Bébé explas Comg Out Unr Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women World War II that “the reason for excludg [gay men] as psychopaths was that… they were nsired to be irrponsible troublemakers who were unable to ntrol their sir or learn om their mistak and th threatened other men.
” Or, as Bronski puts , “A direct lk was beg ma between homosexual behavr and a threat to natnal secury. MarvelIn the preface to Comg Out Unr Fire, Bébé reflects on what impact his rearch and wrg had on him:Begun as the story of how gay Amerins had served their untry, this book evolved to a history of how the ary’s mobilizatn for war ma soldiers nont homosexualy their personal liv and changed the ways that homosexualy f to Amerin stutns.