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• JOE RSO DISCS THE IMPORTANCE OF HIS GAY CAMEO IN ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ FEATUR THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MOMENT, STARRG DIRECTOR JOE RSO
• THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ DIRECTORS JOE & ANTHONY RSO ADDRS INCLN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN MARVEL SUPERHERO FILM
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S JOE RSO ON PLAYG FIRST OPENLY GAY MCU CHARACTER
• MARVEL STUDS PLANS TO REVEAL ONE OF S CHARACTERS IS GAY
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER WAS "JT MEANT TO BE A MATTER OF FACT"
• THE RSOS SAY A CURRENT MCU CHARACTER IS CANONILLY GAY, BUT WHAT DO THAT REALLY MEAN?
• GAY JOE
• MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR AVENGERS: ENDGAME
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ DIRECTORS JOE & ANTHONY RSO ADDRS INCLN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN MARVEL SUPERHERO FILM

JOE RSO DISCS THE IMPORTANCE OF HIS GAY CAMEO IN ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’

Well, blk and you’ll miss , but there is a gay character ‘Avengers: Endgame’, but ’s not a superhero. In the extend versn of that scene, one of the other people attendg the meetg is a gay man, mourng the “Snappeng” ath of his partner, and then gog on his first date afterward.

It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them.

”His brother, Anthony add:“The fact that the character is gay will get attentn but isn’t where the scene started. ”While ’s nice that the Rsos clud a gay character, ’s a really small role, and the character isn’t part of the ma story.

‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ FEATUR THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MOMENT, STARRG DIRECTOR JOE RSO

Reportedly, another same-sex romantic subplot was also cut om ‘Black Panther’ there is talk that a gay male hero will be troduced ‘The Eternals’, wh Ikas and Hercul’ nam the mix.

THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY

The moment is quick, but ’s a tone nohels as reprents the first openly gay moment the MCU. “It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them. While nothg has been nfirmed by Disney or Marvel Studs, the mor has that Chloe Zhoe’s upg MCU entry “The Eternals” will feature an openly gay superhero.

“We wanted to be sual, wh the fact that the character is gay tied to the fabric of the storytellg and reprentg what everyday life is, ” Joe Rso said. “We’ve seen now even untri where homosexualy isn’t as ee as is here, ” Anthony Rso add. “We wanted to be sual, wh the fact that the character is gay tied to the fabric of the storytellg and reprentg what everyday life is, ” Joe told Deadle.

‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ DIRECTORS JOE & ANTHONY RSO ADDRS INCLN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN MARVEL SUPERHERO FILM

Controversy Due to Rso’s Gay Role In the AvengerApart om directg, the younger half of the Rso brothers, Joe, is also an actor who has played eight movi. After the director and actor took on a gay role Avengers: Endgame, began a ntroversy regardg the role. The movie is nsired to have the first-ever openly displayed gay moment the MCU.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S JOE RSO ON PLAYG FIRST OPENLY GAY MCU CHARACTER

Talkg wh Deadle, Rso remarked on the importance of the role MCU by sayg: It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them... "It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them.

"Fortunately for queer Marvel fans, better forms of reprentatn might be g sooner than prevly thought, wh a reportedly gay superhero leadg the charge for Marvel's latt property, The Eternals. But as Avengers: Endgame reflectns ntue to e out, there is headle after headle about Marvel's first openly gay character. After some light vtigatn, turns out that the first openly gay character is a glorified meo by director Joe Rso.

The First Openly Gay Character qutn is a support group wh Capta Ameri after The Snap. Then Capta Ameri tells him that 's brave to keep gog on dat ~wh other men~ and then the scene is be clear, I'm not tryg to say that Joe Rso's portrayal of a grievg gay man was rrect or offensive, though 's non that all gay men are fans of the Yanke, not the Mets.

MARVEL STUDS PLANS TO REVEAL ONE OF S CHARACTERS IS GAY

Wh that beg said, cludg a gay person a peripheral role isn't an acplishment as much as s payg attentn to every day life. Givg a sile character the moniker of "gay" isn't blazg a trail for LGBT cln as much as s hopg s dience is ignorant enough to nflate the monplace wh somethg fact that an average gay man a Marvel movie mak news as newsworthy shouldn't be surprisg.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER WAS "JT MEANT TO BE A MATTER OF FACT"

It's the same approach Disney took by makg LeFou gay Bety and the Beast and sayg he was gog to have a "gay moment" when realy he jt very yly longed for Gaston. "We've done four of the films and was credibly important to to have a gay character reprented somewhere one of the four movi. " But te reprentatn isn't a BINGO rd wh an empty slot that says "throw a gay here!

THE RSOS SAY A CURRENT MCU CHARACTER IS CANONILLY GAY, BUT WHAT DO THAT REALLY MEAN?

" If anythg, stashg a gay man the narrative so that Capta Ameri n pat him on the head and tell him how brave he is only rerc the ia that LGBT people should feel lucky to be clud at ntent is imported om youTube.

I would have preferred that the Rso Brothers, Disney, and the Marvel Universe ntued on their journey of creatg a good universe wh a pellg superhero narrative and left the wanton attempt of cludg a gay character on the cuttg room floor. But when you make a pot to create a gay character, have him do the absolute least, and then have ld as a step forward for reprentatn, that's a b of a another world, I like to image that Thanos is alive and that he ed his Snap abili a more nstctive way. If you're gog to go out of your way to make a character gay, give them a storyle worth payg attentn to.

Avengers: Endgame troduc the first openly gay character to appear a Disney/Marvel movie.

GAY JOE

There has been speculatn that Marvel will add an openly gay superhero at some pot, and onle mors have pegged The Eternals as a possibily.

Disney will her a gay character, Negasonic Teegage Warhead, om Fox’s Deadpool and Deadpool 2, the latter of which clud her girliend. “The fact that the character is gay will get attentn but isn’t where the scene started, ” he said.

MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR AVENGERS: ENDGAME

“We’ve seen now even untri where people untri where homosexualy isn’t as ee as is here, ” Anthony Rso said. Avengers: Endgame's Joe Rso on Playg First Openly Gay MCU Character. Avengers: Endgame director Joe Rso, who played the MCU's first openly gay character, addrsed the role and how reflects Marvel's new directn.

Durg Capta Ameri's support group scene  Avengers: Endgame, the film's -director Joe Rso appeared as the Marvel Cematic Universe's first openly gay character. In addn to wrappg up 22 films worth of stori, Endgame manag to quietly slip the first nonilly gay character of the Marvel films.

‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ DIRECTORS JOE & ANTHONY RSO ADDRS INCLN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN MARVEL SUPERHERO FILM

Co-director Joe Rso plays a gay man early on the film, as one of the members of Capta Ameri’s support group.

It’s a quiet moment, and you would almost miss was gay were not for Rso’s e of the pronoun “he” when referrg to his date.

Rso said of the scene, “Reprentatn is really important, was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them.

Rso followed up by sayg, “We wanted to be sual, wh the fact that the character is gay tied to the fabric of the storytellg and reprentg what everyday life is … We’re tryg to reprent everyone everyday life. ” Marvel has long herald a new queer future for the MCU, most specifilly their search for a gay Asian male lead the upg Eternals movie.