Marvel will make ic book history as publish the first ever gay superhero weddg Empyre #5 next week. Excelsr!
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15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
Marvel's most proment gay Avengers tie the knot a new special g this fall. Hulklg and Wicn marry Empyre: Avengers Aftermath. * gay couples in marvel comics *
K is gay. Too often mastream media, gay and lbian characters are ntered om the start or stantly paired off for life.
Origal wrer and -creator Allan Heberg was famoly surprised when Marvel gave him the go-ahead to create a gay teen uple; took them more than five years to actually kiss on-panel, but Billy and Teddy have played a huge role for a now helpg young gay rears see themselv on the page, tangibly fluencg the urse of the Marvel universe. Wh the Big Two’s reluctance to marry off s major characters, Kyle and Northstar have one of the only high-profile marriag — gay or straight — left ics. It’s easy to foc on a gay-or-straight dichotomy, but sexualy is often much more nuanced than that.
No, no, the two aren’t together — Karma is a psychic lbian former New Mutant wh a bnic leg and Anole is an acrobatic lizard-skned gay teenage X-Man wh one giant arm. Anole was slated to m suici a story that would teach (straight) character Helln a lson about bullyg, but survived that poorly nceived plot to bee one of mastream ic’s least typil gay characters — one not fed by his romantic relatnships.
* gay couples in marvel comics *
He’s bt iends wh hetero-bro Rocksli and has mentored fellow gay teen hero Graymalk and Striker, a nice acknowledgement that not all gay men mt immediately date each other.