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Contents:

• AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY MOMENT IS A NICE GTURE THAT JT FEELS EXHSTG
• "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE
• MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR AVENGERS: ENDGAME
• 'AVENGERS' DIRECTORS TEASED THE BUT OF MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER 'ENDGAME,' BUT WASN'T AT ALL WHAT WE EXPECTED
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR
• 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' HAS THE MCU'S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME: WHO IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN THE MCU?
• 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' NTAS MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER, RSO BROTHERS EXPLA WHY
• WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL FILM
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER WAS "JT MEANT TO BE A MATTER OF FACT"
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ DIRECTORS JOE & ANTHONY RSO ADDRS INCLN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN MARVEL SUPERHERO FILM
• KEV FEIGE DEFENDS AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S BRIEF USE OF MCU'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY MOMENT IS A NICE GTURE THAT JT FEELS EXHSTG

Sendly, yep, you heard that right, this guy who lov the Mets (very masc) is gay, and what’s more, he’s the first openly gay character a Marvel superhero movie.

"AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE

Capta Ameri, An Ally, tells the gay guy that thgs are hard, but he’s dog good work gettg himself out there, and then the scene ends.

‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE

Time to celebrate, uh, gay Mets guy! Joe, one of the two Rso brothers who directed Endgame, plays the gay character himself. “It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them, ” Joe said.

Star Trek Beyond ma John Cho’s Sulu gay wh a man-hug that you probably wouldn’t have noticed if weren’t for the disurse that spng up around .

MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR AVENGERS: ENDGAME

Bety and the Beast gave LeFou that famo “exclively gay moment” that amounted to a short dance wh a henchman. ) Includg a scene wh a gay character as mor as this don’t rectify that realy, jt mak the overwhelmg samens of the rt of the enterprise more stark. This isn’t to say that I don’t appreciate seeg gay characters appear on screen, or that I want studs to stop pictg them.

Consirg how tied a movie’s succs is to the ternatnal box office — and how some untry’s ernments feel about homosexualy (see Bohemian Rhapsody’s Cha ed) — is,  an abstract, unemotnal way, imprsive that the Rso brothers got such a direct mentn of homosexualy to Avengers: Endgame. — to be lookg to st a gay Asian lead.

'AVENGERS' DIRECTORS TEASED THE BUT OF MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER 'ENDGAME,' BUT WASN'T AT ALL WHAT WE EXPECTED

Anyway, ngrats to the gay Mets guy on his date.

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

Avengers: Endgame’s Gay Moment Jt Feels Exhstg. “We wanted to be sual, wh the fact that the character is gay tied to the fabric of the storytellg and reprentg what everyday life is, ” Joe told Deadle. This post clus one mor spoiler for Avengers: the news broke that Avengers: Endgame would clu the MCU’s first openly gay character, the natural assumptn was to image… an actual character.

Endgame’s gay character is actually a meo om an unnamed civilian, troduced for a sgle scene where he talks about gog on a date wh a man. Oh, and this guy is played by the film’s -director Joe the scene featur a gay character a sual, realistic way, also feels tokenistic.

MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR

After years of mands for LGBTQ reprentatn, Marvel rpond wh a new character whose entire role is to be visibly gay for 90 sends. ”“It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them. ”The Rsos may have had to ph to clu a gay character their fal film, but the “reprentatn is really important” le feels a ltle cluels the ntext of their stg choice.

The film’s promotnal tour also over-emphasized Okoye’s prence to a misleadg gree, implyg that she has a signifint role when she only appears for a few ’s first gay character was always gog to attract a lot of scti, and ’s unrstandable for people to have mixed feelgs about how this panned out. A gay character, played by Joe Rso, appears 'Avengers: Endgame'. Avengers: Endgame has troduced Marvel's first openly gay character and only took them 20+ the follow up to last year's Infy War, dienc wns a tone that se an on screen character make reference to beg gay–somethg which has, surprisgly, not happened an MCU film until now.

“It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them. " Though this is the first stance of an openly gay character picted on screen, there is potential for more LGBTQ+ stori the MCU.

'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' HAS THE MCU'S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER

Many fans are also expectg that the upg Eternals film will potentially feature a gay superhero lead–a fe first for Marvel. K is gay.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME: WHO IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN THE MCU?

"The Rso brothers recently spoke to Deadle about their cisn to clu the Marvel Cematic Universe's first openly gay character "Endgame.

"It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them.

'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' NTAS MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER, RSO BROTHERS EXPLA WHY

"Among a llectn of beloved superhero and the most hardre villa recent memory, "Avengers: Endgame" clus the Marvel Cematic Universe's first openly gay character — but the cln isn't as revolutnary as one might character, played by -director Joe Rso himself, appears briefly an early scene as a member of a post-Thanos support group, led by Capta on Earth are seen tryg to grapple wh half of the populatn havg vanished. In realy, the gay character didn't feel groundbreakgThe Marvel Cematic Universe has ma a visible ph recent years to embrace diversy. If LGBTQ reprentatn were tly a prry for filmmakers, there were plenty of opportuni for a meangful gay storyle or an explicly queer superhero "Endgame.

—sarah (@pastagays) April 24, 2019—BetterCallGorGor¹ (@b_ung_il) April 26, 2019Reprentatn is important, and n be achieved a variety of ways. But that scene is simply not tailed, important, or novative enough for the directors to pat themselv on the character uld've easily been played by a gay actor.

While we should never prume to know how a person intifi, the MCU's first openly gay character would've been granted much more gravy if the filmmakers had st an openly gay actor the role.

WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU

Avengers: Endgame gave the first openly gay character the Marvel Cematic Universe, but left a lot of fans (who have spent the last wag to see a gay superhero jo the Avengers) pretty unrwhelmed.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

Here's a selectn of openly gay Marvel characters who serve their time to she the MCU. While many fans hope that Marvel Studs ntu to diversify the superhero they brg to live-actn, Eternals recently took a signifint step forward by prentg Phastos as part of the first openly gay superhero uple the MCU.

Iceman had been fightg alongsi the X-Men the ics for s before he stunned dienc by g out as gay, but fans quickly accepted his sexualy.

Wh Marvel Studs hopg to fix the X-Men film anchise after acquirg om Fox, this uld be a good ll for the MCU’s first gay character. Viv’s sexualy hasn’t been nfirmed the ics, but she's kissed Ironheart and was strongly suggted that she’s eher gay or asexual when she said, “an attractn to boys is nowhere wh me.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL FILM

” The MCU uld easily portray the character as gay.

There was speculatn that Hercul would be a lead  The Eternals when Marvel announced that the film would star a gay lead, but the reference was stead to Phastos.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER WAS "JT MEANT TO BE A MATTER OF FACT"

Phyla-Vell was first intified as gay when she admted to and acted on her attractn towards Moondragon.

In any discsn of who will be the first openly gay superhero the MCU, ’s important to mentn the first openly gay superhero Marvel Comics. Northstar was a landmark character for ic book history bee he was one of the first gay superhero, the first to e out a Marvel book, and 2012, he beme the first character to have a same-sex weddg a mastream ic.

Phastos may be half of the first openly gay relatnship the Marvel Cematic Universe, but Negasonic Teenage Warhead was part of the first gay superhero uple all of superhero cema several years earlier. The two shared the first gay kiss between major characters a Marvel ic back X-Force #45 while Rictor was huntg for Multiple Man New England.

‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ DIRECTORS JOE & ANTHONY RSO ADDRS INCLN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN MARVEL SUPERHERO FILM

Rictor has also dated women the Marvel Universe, such as Wolfsbane and Boom Boom, but he stated X-Force #20 that he always knew ep down that he was gay. A clearly gay character has fally arrived the Marvel universe -- although many sual viewers may miss the historic Rso, who directed Avengers: Endgame wh his brother Anthony Rso, portrays a gay man the blockbter, reports Deadle.

Several mor characters, like Thor: Ragnarok's Valkyrie (Tsa Thompson) and Black Panther's Ayo (Florence Kasumba) and Okoye (Danai Gurira), were reportedly -gayed through leted scen.

KEV FEIGE DEFENDS AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S BRIEF USE OF MCU'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

Anthony Rso told Deadle that the cln of the gay character reprented a step toward clivy that reflected the real world. "Marvel has yet to troduce a clearly LGBTQ superhero -- although the stud is reportedly searchg for a gay actor to portray one.