Gay Superhero: 12 Inic LGBTQ Characters Marvel and DC Comics

Contents:

• IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
• 'DEADPOOL 2' IS THE GAYT SUPERHERO MOVIE YET. THAT'S NOT SAYG MUCH.
• GAYPOOL????
• IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? OR NEHER?
• RYAN REYNOLDS IS OPEN TO EXPLORG DEADPOOL’S PANSEXUALYTHE ACTOR SAID AS MUCH AT THIS YEAR’S COMIC-CON, WHERE TALK OF L.G.B.T.Q. REPRENTATN BROKE BOUNDARI OTHER WAYS.BY YOHANA DTAJULY 23, 2018BY JUN SATO/GETTY.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERYAN REYNOLDS THKS MIGHT BE TIME TO EXPLORE DEADPOOL’S SEXUALY ON THE BIG SCREEN. ON SATURDAY AT COMIC-CON, THE ACTOR, WHO PLAYS THE FOUL-MOUTHED SUPERHERO THE EPONYMO FILM ANCHISE, TOLD A FAN THAT THE ANCHISE’S FUTURE MOVI SHOULD, AND HOPEFULLY WILL, FEATURE A BROAR SPECTM OF L.G.B.T.Q. CHARACTERS. AND THAT CLUS DEADPOOL HIMSELF.“I CERTALY THK THAT THIS UNIVERSE . . . NEEDS TO REPRENT AND REFLECT THE WORLD VERY REAL WAYS,” REYNOLDS SAID DURG A HALL H PANEL AFTER A FAN ASKED ABOUT FUTURE GAY AND BI REPRENTATN THE SERI, ACRDG TO VARIETY. “THE GREAT THG ABOUT DEADPOOL IS THAT WE’RE ALLOWED TO DO THGS THAT OTHER SUPERHERO MOVI DON’T NECSARILY DO, AND THAT’S PROBABLY ONE OF THEM. IT’S SOMETHG THAT I’D LOVE TO SEE MORE OF, CERTALY THROUGH WA, CERTALY THROUGH THIS UNIVERSE, BEE ’S SOMETHG THAT WE’RE BUILDG OUT MORE. WE HAVE A LOT OF TOOLS THE SHED THAT WE GET TO PLAY WH.”DEADPOOL IS ON THE WILST END OF THE SUPERHERO SPECTM, AN R-RATED ACTN TALE WH A NEVER-ENDG ARSENAL OF RNCHY JOK. IN THE LAST TWO FILMS, DEADPOOL/WILSON IS PRENTED AS STRAIGHT, A RELATNSHIP WH VANSA CARLYSLE (PLAYED BY MORENA BACR). HE DO, HOWEVER, FLIRT WH ANYONE AND EVERYONE, TO THE POT WHERE FANS HAVE WONRED IF THE CHARACTER IS ACTUALLY PANSEXUAL. DEADPOOL IC -CREATOR FABIAN NICIEZA HAS BEEN DOGGED WH THE QUTN FOR YEARS, NFIRMG BACK 2015 THAT ALL FAN THEORI ABOUT DEADPOOL’S SEXUALY ARE ACCURATE, BEE THE CHARACTER IS NSTANTLY FLUX. “HE N BE GAY ONE MUTE, HETERO THE NEXT, ETC,” NICIEZA WROTE TO A FAN ON TWTER. “ALL ARE VALID.”THAT HASN’T QUE BEEN REFLECTED THE FIRST TWO MAJOR FILMS, HOWEVER, NOR HAS REALLY BEEN NFIRMED THAT ’LL HAPPEN THE FUTURE. A THIRD DEADPOOL FILM HAS NOT YET BEEN ANNOUNCED, BUT THE TEAM HAS HTED THAT THE CHARACTER ULD, AT THE VERY LEAST, POP UP FUTURE X-MEN MOVI.DPE REYNOLDS’S GOOD TENTNS, HIS L WILL SOUND ALL TOO FAIAR TO FANS OF PROPERTI THAT HAVE QUEER CHARACTERS ON PAPER, BUT DON’T REPRENT THEM AS SUCH ON THE BIG SCREEN. ALB DUMBLEDORE (PLAYED BY JU LAW) THE FANTASTIC BEASTS SERI IS ONE SUCH RECENT EXAMPLE; THOUGH THE CHARACTER IS NONILLY GAY THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS, HE WON’T BE EXPLICLY GAY THE UPG SEQUEL. SIARLY, SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY -WRER JONATHAN KASDAN RECENTLY NFIRMED THAT THE CHARACTER LANDO CALRISSIAN (PLAYED BY DONALD GLOVER) IS PANSEXUAL—BUT THIS IS NOT EXPLICLY EXPLORED THE FILM. THE PROCS HAS BEE A REGNIZABLE PATTERN: MAJOR ANCHIS EHER PROMISG MORE L.G.B.T.Q. REPRENTATN AND FALLG SHORT, OR RETROACTIVELY STATG A CHARACTER’S SEXUALY, WHOUT SHOWG ANYTHG THAT WOULD TLY DITE ON-SCREEN. DEADPOOL DO, AT THE VERY LEAST, HAVE AN OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER: NEGASONIC TEENAGE WARHEAD (BRIANNA HILBRAND), WHO SPENDS MOST OF DEADPOOL 2 WH HER GIRLIEND, Y.THIS YEAR’S COMIC-CON DID, HOWEVER, HAVE SOME NCRETE, EXCG NEWS TERMS OF L.G.B.T. REPRENTATN OTHER MAJOR PROJECTS. THE CW ANNOUNCED THAT ACTRS AND ACTIVIST NILE MA, WHO IS TRANS, IS JOG THE ST OF THE TV SERI SUPERGIRL, PLAYG CHARACTER NIA NAL. THE STG MAK MA THE FIRST TRANS PERSON TO PLAY A SUPERHERO ON TELEVISN.“IT SEEMS ONLY FTG THAT WE HAVE A TRANS SUPERHERO FOR TRANS KIDS TO LOOK UP TO,” MA SAID, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK TIM. “I WISH THERE WAS A TRANS SUPERHERO WHEN I WAS LTLE.”THE CW ALSO SCREENED THE PILOT OF THE CHARMED REBOOT AT THIS YEAR’S COMIC-CON, REVEALG THAT ONE OF THE MA SISTERS THE RE ST IS QUEER, A REHG TWIST ON THE ORIGAL SERI.CONSIRG THE SERI’S UNCERTA FUTURE, ’LL BE A WHILE BEFORE WE KNOW ANYTHG FOR SURE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF DEADPOOL (AND WHETHER OR NOT WA WILSON’S PANSEXUALY WILL ACTUALLY BE EXPLORED). THE SEND FILM, RELEASED THIS PAST MAY, GROSSED $732 LN AT THE WORLDWI BOX OFFICE, A STAGGERG SUM THAT WOULD URGE ANY STUD TO SPRG FOR A THIRD STALLMENT. HOWEVER, WH THE RECENT SALE OF 21ST CENTURY FOX TO DISNEY, EVERYTHG IS STILL FLUX.MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORDWHO SHOULD PLAY ELON MK ALL SIX THAI CAVE RCUE MOVI?1 / 8CHEVRONCHEVRONBY AMANDA EDWARDS/WIREIMAGE.JSE PLEMONSIN BLACK MIRROR’S “U.S.S. CALLISTER” EPISO, PLEMONS PROVED HE ULD EXU SISTER RAGE LIKE NO ONE ELSE. AND ALTHOUGH PLEMONS, AGE 30, IS FAR YOUNGER THAN THE 47-YEAR-OLD TECH MOGUL, WH A LTLE MAKP HE ULD PROBABLY BE NVCG ENOUGH TO MAKE THROUGH A QUICK MEO. ALSO, AS ANYONE WHO SAW GAME NIGHT KNOWS, THE ACTOR EXCELS A EDY AS WELL—SO EHER WAY HE NEEDS TO PLAY THIS CHARACTER, PLEMONS N PULL OFF.YOHANA DTA

IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?

The first explicly gay superhero Marvel Comics was North Star, a mutant and X-Men off-shoot om Alpha Flight #7 2011. Sce then, one of the origal X-Men, Iceman/Bobby Drake, was revealed to be gay last year’s Iceman seri. The scene was subversive to the mastream, and enarg to many young and alienated LGBTQ geeks, bee was an obv metaphor for gay pri—and the poison of homophobia—durg the height of the Bh Years when gay bashg and homophobia went very mastream.

'DEADPOOL 2' IS THE GAYT SUPERHERO MOVIE YET. THAT'S NOT SAYG MUCH.

Bh would n a succsful reelectn mpaign that, among other thgs, falsely promised to create a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage.

GAYPOOL????

While CW’s superhero televisn shows have actually been rryg the flag recent years by makg a number of ma characters gay, lbian, and bi on Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, Arrow, and Supergirl, those seri are still targeted to a relatively small, young, and socially liberal (read: likemd) dience the U. But Cha, and s ernment’s censors, are notorly behd on gay rights.

Gay relatnships were a punishable offense until 1997 the People’s Republic, and those who participated them were still rerd as sufferg om a “mental disorr” until 2001. To this day, movi wh explicly gay relatnships are banned Cha, as well as other smaller markets. The Comics Co Authory banned any suggtns of homosexualy ic books until 1989 Ameri, and wasn't until the 2000s that LGBT characters started to feature more stand-alone stori.

Northstar, real name Jean-Pl Bebier, is one of the first openly gay characters Amerin ic book history. The character buted durg the height of the AIDS sre and was explicly stated as gay 1992's Alpha Flight #106.

IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? OR NEHER?

However, the wrers scrapped that ia and cid to pursue an openly gay relatnship between the characters.

Bobby Drake's sexualy was never addrsed then, though he has sce e out as gay after an altertn wh Jean Grey 2015's All-New X-Men.

A teenaged versn of Iceman who has been pulled out of time has his md read by the telepath, outg that he is gay.

RYAN REYNOLDS IS OPEN TO EXPLORG DEADPOOL’S PANSEXUALYTHE ACTOR SAID AS MUCH AT THIS YEAR’S COMIC-CON, WHERE TALK OF L.G.B.T.Q. REPRENTATN BROKE BOUNDARI OTHER WAYS.BY YOHANA DTAJULY 23, 2018BY JUN SATO/GETTY.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERYAN REYNOLDS THKS MIGHT BE TIME TO EXPLORE DEADPOOL’S SEXUALY ON THE BIG SCREEN. ON SATURDAY AT COMIC-CON, THE ACTOR, WHO PLAYS THE FOUL-MOUTHED SUPERHERO THE EPONYMO FILM ANCHISE, TOLD A FAN THAT THE ANCHISE’S FUTURE MOVI SHOULD, AND HOPEFULLY WILL, FEATURE A BROAR SPECTM OF L.G.B.T.Q. CHARACTERS. AND THAT CLUS DEADPOOL HIMSELF.“I CERTALY THK THAT THIS UNIVERSE . . . NEEDS TO REPRENT AND REFLECT THE WORLD VERY REAL WAYS,” REYNOLDS SAID DURG A HALL H PANEL AFTER A FAN ASKED ABOUT FUTURE GAY AND BI REPRENTATN THE SERI, ACRDG TO VARIETY. “THE GREAT THG ABOUT DEADPOOL IS THAT WE’RE ALLOWED TO DO THGS THAT OTHER SUPERHERO MOVI DON’T NECSARILY DO, AND THAT’S PROBABLY ONE OF THEM. IT’S SOMETHG THAT I’D LOVE TO SEE MORE OF, CERTALY THROUGH WA, CERTALY THROUGH THIS UNIVERSE, BEE ’S SOMETHG THAT WE’RE BUILDG OUT MORE. WE HAVE A LOT OF TOOLS THE SHED THAT WE GET TO PLAY WH.”DEADPOOL IS ON THE WILST END OF THE SUPERHERO SPECTM, AN R-RATED ACTN TALE WH A NEVER-ENDG ARSENAL OF RNCHY JOK. IN THE LAST TWO FILMS, DEADPOOL/WILSON IS PRENTED AS STRAIGHT, A RELATNSHIP WH VANSA CARLYSLE (PLAYED BY MORENA BACR). HE DO, HOWEVER, FLIRT WH ANYONE AND EVERYONE, TO THE POT WHERE FANS HAVE WONRED IF THE CHARACTER IS ACTUALLY PANSEXUAL. DEADPOOL IC -CREATOR FABIAN NICIEZA HAS BEEN DOGGED WH THE QUTN FOR YEARS, NFIRMG BACK 2015 THAT ALL FAN THEORI ABOUT DEADPOOL’S SEXUALY ARE ACCURATE, BEE THE CHARACTER IS NSTANTLY FLUX. “HE N BE GAY ONE MUTE, HETERO THE NEXT, ETC,” NICIEZA WROTE TO A FAN ON TWTER. “ALL ARE VALID.”THAT HASN’T QUE BEEN REFLECTED THE FIRST TWO MAJOR FILMS, HOWEVER, NOR HAS REALLY BEEN NFIRMED THAT ’LL HAPPEN THE FUTURE. A THIRD DEADPOOL FILM HAS NOT YET BEEN ANNOUNCED, BUT THE TEAM HAS HTED THAT THE CHARACTER ULD, AT THE VERY LEAST, POP UP FUTURE X-MEN MOVI.DPE REYNOLDS’S GOOD TENTNS, HIS L WILL SOUND ALL TOO FAIAR TO FANS OF PROPERTI THAT HAVE QUEER CHARACTERS ON PAPER, BUT DON’T REPRENT THEM AS SUCH ON THE BIG SCREEN. ALB DUMBLEDORE (PLAYED BY JU LAW) THE FANTASTIC BEASTS SERI IS ONE SUCH RECENT EXAMPLE; THOUGH THE CHARACTER IS NONILLY GAY THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS, HE WON’T BE EXPLICLY GAY THE UPG SEQUEL. SIARLY, SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY -WRER JONATHAN KASDAN RECENTLY NFIRMED THAT THE CHARACTER LANDO CALRISSIAN (PLAYED BY DONALD GLOVER) IS PANSEXUAL—BUT THIS IS NOT EXPLICLY EXPLORED THE FILM. THE PROCS HAS BEE A REGNIZABLE PATTERN: MAJOR ANCHIS EHER PROMISG MORE L.G.B.T.Q. REPRENTATN AND FALLG SHORT, OR RETROACTIVELY STATG A CHARACTER’S SEXUALY, WHOUT SHOWG ANYTHG THAT WOULD TLY DITE ON-SCREEN. DEADPOOL DO, AT THE VERY LEAST, HAVE AN OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER: NEGASONIC TEENAGE WARHEAD (BRIANNA HILBRAND), WHO SPENDS MOST OF DEADPOOL 2 WH HER GIRLIEND, Y.THIS YEAR’S COMIC-CON DID, HOWEVER, HAVE SOME NCRETE, EXCG NEWS TERMS OF L.G.B.T. REPRENTATN OTHER MAJOR PROJECTS. THE CW ANNOUNCED THAT ACTRS AND ACTIVIST NILE MA, WHO IS TRANS, IS JOG THE ST OF THE TV SERI SUPERGIRL, PLAYG CHARACTER NIA NAL. THE STG MAK MA THE FIRST TRANS PERSON TO PLAY A SUPERHERO ON TELEVISN.“IT SEEMS ONLY FTG THAT WE HAVE A TRANS SUPERHERO FOR TRANS KIDS TO LOOK UP TO,” MA SAID, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK TIM. “I WISH THERE WAS A TRANS SUPERHERO WHEN I WAS LTLE.”THE CW ALSO SCREENED THE PILOT OF THE CHARMED REBOOT AT THIS YEAR’S COMIC-CON, REVEALG THAT ONE OF THE MA SISTERS THE RE ST IS QUEER, A REHG TWIST ON THE ORIGAL SERI.CONSIRG THE SERI’S UNCERTA FUTURE, ’LL BE A WHILE BEFORE WE KNOW ANYTHG FOR SURE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF DEADPOOL (AND WHETHER OR NOT WA WILSON’S PANSEXUALY WILL ACTUALLY BE EXPLORED). THE SEND FILM, RELEASED THIS PAST MAY, GROSSED $732 LN AT THE WORLDWI BOX OFFICE, A STAGGERG SUM THAT WOULD URGE ANY STUD TO SPRG FOR A THIRD STALLMENT. HOWEVER, WH THE RECENT SALE OF 21ST CENTURY FOX TO DISNEY, EVERYTHG IS STILL FLUX.MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORDWHO SHOULD PLAY ELON MK ALL SIX THAI CAVE RCUE MOVI?1 / 8CHEVRONCHEVRONBY AMANDA EDWARDS/WIREIMAGE.JSE PLEMONSIN BLACK MIRROR’S “U.S.S. CALLISTER” EPISO, PLEMONS PROVED HE ULD EXU SISTER RAGE LIKE NO ONE ELSE. AND ALTHOUGH PLEMONS, AGE 30, IS FAR YOUNGER THAN THE 47-YEAR-OLD TECH MOGUL, WH A LTLE MAKP HE ULD PROBABLY BE NVCG ENOUGH TO MAKE THROUGH A QUICK MEO. ALSO, AS ANYONE WHO SAW GAME NIGHT KNOWS, THE ACTOR EXCELS A EDY AS WELL—SO EHER WAY HE NEEDS TO PLAY THIS CHARACTER, PLEMONS N PULL OFF.YOHANA DTA

Apollo is another of Marvel's first openly gay characters, origally butg the Stormwatch seri. Durg a drastic DC reboot, his character was revealed to be gay Jam Robson's Earth-Two seri. This is blatant panrg to fans of the homoerotic iendship of Peter Parker and Wa Wilson—universally shorthand as Spiypool.

So far, the ic seems mted to explorg the homoerotic elements of Spiypool’s often-antagonistic relatnship—or at least puttg plenty of gay jok about . Queerbag is generally seen as exploative and homophobic, sce arguably fans are beg asked to settle for homoerotic subtext li of meangful queer reprentatn.