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The notn that the mutant world the X-Men anchise is an allegory for the real-life LGBT muny has bee a popular one. Publitns rangg om tradnal LGBT news outlets The Advote and The Gay & Lbian Review to the mastream Huffgton Post and Slate have taken note of the prence of LGBT issu ...

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'FIRST CLASS': THE LATT CHAPTER THE 'X-MEN' GAY-RIGHTS PARABLE

As the Legacy vis primarily affected mutants, the humans equated mutants to the dangero vis— the same ve that, the real world, straight people wrongly thought of HIV/AIDS as a disease exclive to gay men—th creatg an atmosphere of tensn and worsened fear. What's more, echo the homophobic sentiment that one's queerns is a matter of choice and that one, an effort to live a "more rrect liftyle, " n simply "not be" LGBTQ+.

Addnally, the year of 2015 se the All-New X-Men ics reveal Iceman as gay issue #40. That they did not look like a natural fay served to unrle the ia that the people chose each of this is a gay fairy tale -- and a perfected versn of what is, for many, a gay all mory experienc are different, there is one experience that's pecially mon among LGBT people that is perhaps pecially unmon to people om most other mory inti. Lbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people do not typilly e om lbian, gay, bisexual or trans fai or the veat that none of this is universally te, is the se that most young women are related to other women or have other women their liv.

I didn't knowgly meet another gay person of around my own age until I went to universy. I didn't have any close gay iends until I was my to this isolatn, a lot of fai and cultur stigmatize LGBT inty. There are non-queer people who grow up different om their parents or fai -- many people wh disabili, for example, or adopted children, or people wh terracial inti -- but they're not as likely to expect the rejectn by their fai that many LGBT kids growg up lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, rri wh a heightened versn of a mon adolcent fear; the fear of beg an outst, of beg alone.

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