Gay Superhero: 12 Inic LGBTQ Characters Marvel and DC Comics

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• IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
• 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 POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISWHO 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?

K is gay. We’ve put together this list to troduce some of the most fluential gay superhero, rangg om groundbreakg figur like Marvel’s Northstar to characters like Harley Qun who only me out the past few 12 most inic gay superhero1) Wonr WomanDiana of Themyscira has a long and storied history as a queer in. (CC-BY-SA)2) MidnighterPossibly the bt-known gay superhero ic book circl, Midnighter was created as a parody of Batman, startg off the adult-rated Wildstorm ic Stormwatch.

As one of the origal X-Men, he was portrayed as straight for s beg outed as gay 2015.

Thanks to the X-Men ics’ love of time travel hijks, there are actually two versns of this character at the moment: A teenage Iceman who realized he was gay after Jean Grey read his md, and an adult versn who stayed the closet and dated women for years, but me out after beg nonted by his younger self.

GAYPOOL????

The recent Iceman solo seri foced on his life after this revelatn, earng a mixed rponse bee while ’s great to see a gay character gettg their own ic, his emotnal arc is a rather old-fashned g-out story. She first appeared as Batman’s love tert the 1950s, shortly after the publitn of Sctn of the Innocent, a book that acced Batman of homosexual propaganda. In recent years she was rewrten to be gay herself, a ntroversial cisn that led to some problems of s her ic’s creators wanted her to marry her girliend, DC nixed the cisn by sayg hero “shouldn’t have happy personal liv, ” a dub statement that sounds pretty ridiculo the ntext of, say, Superman.

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

After years of hts, he me out as gay 1992.

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 POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISWHO 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

LGBTQ and gay superhero list:Wonr Woman (DC Comics). 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.

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.