Lookg Back at the Mistreatment of Marvel's First Gay Comic Superhero

Contents:

• GAY CHIK!- LGBT SUPERHERO
• LOOKG BACK AT THE MISTREATMENT OF MARVEL’S FIRST GAY COMIC SUPERHERO

GAY CHIK!- LGBT SUPERHERO

The moment marked a major turng pot for queer X-Men fans, wh s of subtext, hts, and unnfirmed tent fally g to un before rears' ey.Mystique(Image cred: Marvel Comics)Unlike Kty Pry, her fellow mutant Mystique's sexualy has been open - if not specifilly, verbally nfirmed - for many years, owg to her marriage to pregnive mutant Dty, as well as her relatnships wh characters of other genrs.Out and proud as both a mutant and as a bisexual/pansexual person sce long before many fans for whom queer reprentatn has bee much-need aspect of their ic book experience, Mystique is one of Marvel's - and ic books' - origal queer ins.Incintally, Mystique was -created by Chris Claremont, who also -created Kty Pry, and who veloped a strong reputatn for rporatg queer them and characters to superhero ics for s.Aquaman/Jackson Hy(Image cred: DC)Though he buted as Aqualad, half-Atlantean Jackson Hy has graduated to the mantle of Aquaman - which means that one of DC's flagship characters will be a queer Black man, somethg almost unthkable a mastream ic even jt a few years ago.Jackson - a fan-favore character sce his simultaneo but DC ic books and on the Young Jtice animated seri - has bee somewhat emblematic of the rise of characters wh queer inti morn ic books, now g full circle to the role of Aquaman as one of DC's most unique legacy characters.Alan Stt(Image cred: DC)The origal Green Lantern Alan Stt has been ic books sce 1940, but 's only been sce 2012 that he's been out as a gay man.

LOOKG BACK AT THE MISTREATMENT OF MARVEL’S FIRST GAY COMIC SUPERHERO

Though this revelatn first took place wh an alternate Alan Stt DC's Earth 2 tle durg the 'New 52' era, the mastream DC Universe versn followed su 2021, g out to his children Ja and Obsidian.Intertgly, Alan Stt's son Obsidian has been out as a gay man sce 2004, beatg his dad to the punch and reflectg a rare, but very real experience shared by many rears who have multiple fay members - even parents - who are queer.Loki(Image cred: Marvel Comics)Beg magil nature has lent Loki the abily to take on many different forms and those forms display many different forms of attractn. While Loki has been a longtime villa and difyg villas as queer n be problematic, the character's recent hero turns have ma him one of ic books' most popular and intifiable queer hero.Northstar(Image cred: Marvel Comics)Jean-Pl Bebier buted 1979 at a time when both the Comics Co Authory and Marvel's edor--chief Jim Shooter were opposed to openly gay characters, acrdg to thor Shirrel Rhoas 2008's A Complete History of Amerin Comic Books. Creator John Byrne has explaed that Northstar was wrten as gay om the get-go, "even if I would never be allowed to say so many words the ics themselv."Dpe not utterg the words "I am gay" until 1992's Alpha Flight #106, Northstar has long been accepted by X-Men fans and ic book fans at large who picked up Byrne's nods as one of the first nonilly gay superhero sce his ceptn.