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. 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.
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That clus bookish werewolf Vivisector and whe rapper stretch-man Phat: the uple origally got volved for publicy but later realized they're both gay and love. Gay mutant royalty Northstar ma ephemeral headl as one of the first openly out supers, but he ma pop culture history when he married longtime boyiend Kyle Jadu.
Meanwhile, the parallel Ultimate Marvel universe, gay hero Northstar and Coloss, seem to be well on their way to beg an em. Alright, former Army Litenant Kev Keller, the first openly gay character long-nng Archie Comics, don't have any powers, but his g out was a huge tone for the kid-skewg seri, so we're gog to say that his social impact and ary history, as well as his nate fabulons, make him pretty super.