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Contents:

• IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
• MARVEL INTRODUCG FIRST GAY SPIR-MAN
• GAYPOOL????

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

Is Deadpool gay, bisexual, straight, or somethg else that is ncrete Marvel non? Edge of Spir-Verse has already ma headl for troducg new variatns of Spir-Man — and Issue #5, that will clu Web-Weaver, who is beg billed as the first gay Spir-Man.

"Somethg I realized immediately when nceivg Web-Weaver is that he n't--and shouldn't--reprent ALL gay men, " Foxe wrote.

MARVEL INTRODUCG FIRST GAY SPIR-MAN

Their homoerotic iendship has been allud to many tim the Marvel Universe, and the huge fan culture surroundg the two characters led to their own spoff ic seri beg released 2016 lled "Spir-Man/Deadpool" (a reference to the Spiypool slash ship). Are They Gay? 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.

GAYPOOL????

Acrdg to rmatn leaked the famo Sony hacks, a licensg agreement between Marvel and Sony clus a ntractual “Character Integry Obligatn, ” which stat that Peter Parker’s character n never be portrayed onscreen as gay.

Other, alternate versns of Spir-Man n be portrayed as gay or queer only provid that “Marvel has portrayed that alter ego as a homosexual. Some fans have argued that wrer Kelly’s general portrayal of Deadpool is homophobic. Numero Deadpool wrers along the way, cludg Kelly, have tried to mimize his queerns or -gay him, some by puttg “no homo” ments that attempt to “straighten” his character.

“Deadpool also gets to fly unr other rears’ gaydar as straight passg bee the character never acts on any sexual and/or romantic urg that are not prented as heterosexual, ” wrote Comic Book Rource’s Brett Whe last year. ” Their fears do seem to be realized: A few pag after that first memorable openg panel of Spir-Man/Deadpool, we learn that Wa was fakg his sexual aroal orr to pe, makg what ially seems like a straightforward pictn of sexual orientatn a straightforward “no homo” p-out stead.