Contents:
- MARVEL COMICS REVEALS EARTH'S FIRST GAY SUPER-COUPLE
- IS HULK GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?
- STAN LEE WAS WRONG ABOUT THE INCREDIBLE HULK
- THE INCREDIBLY GAY HULK
MARVEL COMICS REVEALS EARTH'S FIRST GAY SUPER-COUPLE
K is gay.
Is he gay, bisexual, or straight?
The Bottom Le: Is the Hulk Gay, Bisex, or Straight? In recent years, many Marvel fans have exprsed disappotment that the MCU is takg s sweet time to troduce a gay character who isn't a meo by the director of the movie appearg onscreen for 40 sends.
IS HULK GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?
The '70s: No Gay People In The Marvel Universe... Throughout the '60s and most of the '70s, there were no gay characters Marvel ics, unls you unt the ocsnal effemate villa or "lispy stool pigeon. " And we say "most of the '70s" bee that changed 1979 wh the troductn of the first explicly homosexual characters Marvel Comics history.
STAN LEE WAS WRONG ABOUT THE INCREDIBLE HULK
Gay rears, and people wh basic humany general, weren't imprsed wh the fact that Marvel's first foray to LGBTQ reprentatn nsisted of two dis-era rapists lled Dewey and Luellen (Dewey and Luellen (c) Walt Disney Company, all rights rerved). When they let Marvel know about this, wrer/ic child prodigy Jim Shooter, who also happened to be the pany's Edor--Chief, fend the story by sayg that he " unrstand why any non-rapist would be offend" and potg out that there were lots of non-sister gay characters that very magaze. You jt uldn't tell they were gay.
Shooter apparently liked this "you n't see the gay people" policy, nsirg what happened next...
The '80s: Marvel Bans Gay Characters (But Some Slip Through Anyway).
THE INCREDIBLY GAY HULK
Multiple ic book wrers have stated that Marvel wouldn't let them troduce any gay characters the '80s, possibly bee Shooter had ran out of bullsh exc after the Hulk YMCA ntroversy. Why go through the trouble of makg your gay characters ls offensive when 's easier to ban them? The Comics Co Authory was also a problem, sce forbid "sexual abnormali" and "sex perversn" and, until 1989, they unted homosexualy as both.
Some wrers still managed to get stuff past the anti-gaydar.
Marvel Comics Life's hard enough beg gay and a mutant, but image beg Canadian on top of that.