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• MARVEL ANNOUNC FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI
• MARVEL COMICS REVEALS EARTH'S FIRST GAY SUPER-COUPLE
• ‘AVENGERS’ COMIC FEATURG GAY KISS BANNED BY R JANEIRO AUTHORI

MARVEL ANNOUNC FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI

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“This really feels like kd of a back-to-basics year, where ics and anime and vio gam are kd of takg the top seat to the typil movi and TV shows that have domated the nventn for so long, ” says Josh Tjillo, the wrer of DC’s latt “Blue Beetle” ics and the upg graphic novel “Washgton’s Gay General.

MARVEL COMICS REVEALS EARTH'S FIRST GAY SUPER-COUPLE

Aaron Fischer, a gay teenager, will be the first, the new limed seri, released scribed Fischer, who will be the “Capta Ameri of the Railways”, as “a fearls teen who stepped up to protect fellow naways and the unhoed”, wh his but timed to ci wh Pri Month the US.

‘AVENGERS’ COMIC FEATURG GAY KISS BANNED BY R JANEIRO AUTHORI

“As a transgenr person, I am happy to be able to prent an openly gay person who admir Capta Ameri and fights agast evil to help those who are almost visible to society, ” said Bazaldua. ”Marvel reportedly had a “No Gays the Marvel Universe” policy the 1980s and, the 1990s, placed an “Adults Only” label on any ics featurg proment LGBTQ+ characters rponse to nservative protts. The publisher’s first gay character, Northstar of the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight, was planned as such by creator John Byrne 1979, but his sexualy was not revealed on the page until recent years, Marvel has moved to diversify s st of superhero.