"Avengers: Endgame" Featur Marvel's First Openly Gay Character

Contents:

• 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPER-POWERED CHARACTER
• MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• MARVEL ANNOUNC FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI
• "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
• CAPTA MARVEL DIRECTOR WEIGHS IN ON IF CAROL’S THE MCU’S FIRST GAY HERO
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ FEATUR THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MOMENT, STARRG DIRECTOR JOE RSO
• 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' DIRECTORS SAY MARVEL WILL REVEAL ONE OF ITS CHARACTERS IS GAY UPG FILM

5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPER-POWERED CHARACTER

He's not the first queer MCU character; he's the first out, super-powered MCU character In 2019's Avengers: Endgame, -director Joe Rso played an unnamed gay man a brief scene at a support group.

Pl, there's sr of background players var crowd scen that have pged my personal gaydar. 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.

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

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

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. A Marvel executive, Victoria Alonso, told Variety at the Capta Marvel premiere that "the world is ready" for a gay superhero.

Brgg the eponymo hero, and their fo, the Deviants, to the Marvel Cematic Universe, Eternals will also see the MCU’s first LGBTQ+ fay and openly gay uple but the Marvel movie. Henry’s Phastos will be the first openly gay superhero the on-screen Marvel Universe, wh Sleiman playg his hband the MCU film. K is gay.

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. 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.

15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO 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.

MARVEL ANNOUNC FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI

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

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

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.

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. 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.

CAPTA MARVEL DIRECTOR WEIGHS IN ON IF CAROL’S THE MCU’S FIRST GAY HERO

”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.

“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.

The Marvel Cematic Universe (MCU) was fairly slow troducg LGBTQ+ characters —though seeg as even the most chaste reprentatns of queer love get the films banned some untri, you n see why they would be Strange and The Multiverse of Madns actually breaks the rerd for the most lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and/or queer characters an MCU property wh three. However, seeg as two of them do not talk, and one never mentns their sexualy out loud, clearly there is still some work to be done when to LGBTQ+ MCU is of urse fairly sexls general, but any mentns of queer sexuali have tend to be very brief, the better to allow Disney to easily cut out the scen more homophobic markets.

‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ FEATUR THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MOMENT, STARRG DIRECTOR JOE RSO

"Grievg man"Avengers: Endgame ma the mistake of tmpetg that had the MCU's first gay character before the film me out. Phastos is also the anchise's first out gay superhero, and the pair share the anchise's first gay kiss (and one of the few kiss general the MCU) his partner Ben do not get much screen time, his stg mak a bold statement.

'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' DIRECTORS SAY MARVEL WILL REVEAL ONE OF ITS CHARACTERS IS GAY UPG FILM

Actor Haaz Sleiman is an out gay man himself, and was born the Uned Arab Emirat.

Avengers: Endgame ma a small but signifint step the right directn, wh Joe Rso’s meo seeg him play the anchise’s first openly gay character, but Marvel fans are still starved for more LGBT reprentatn the MCU.

The figurehead for the ll for more to be done has bee Capta Marvel, wh many hopg that Carol Danvers will be revealed as gay a future movie. In any se, Kev Feige and the Rso brothers’ talk of more gay characters g to the MCU giv hope that thgs are gog to change soon, but will Capta Marvel lead the way?