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Contents:

• LOOKG BACK AT THE MISTREATMENT OF MARVEL’S FIRST GAY COMIC SUPERHERO
• GAY CHIK!- LGBT SUPERHERO
• THREE GAY/BISEXUAL MALE SUPERHERO IN ONE DC COMIC? WELE TO 2022
• THE GAY SUPERHERO ‘ETERNALS’ IS ‘WHAT AUDIENC HAVE BEEN WAG FOR,’ SAYS GLAAD (GUT COLUMN)
• DC INTRODUCED ITS FIRST GAY SUPERHERO ON TV EARLIER THAN YOU THK
• HOW THE NEW GAY AQUAMAN IS BEG RETRODUCED BY A BLACK SOCAL WRER
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU

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

We’ve put together this list to troduce some of the most fluential gay superhero, rangg om groundbreakg figur like Marvel’s Northstar to characters like Harley Qun who only me out the past few 12 most inic gay superhero1) Wonr WomanDiana of Themyscira has a long and storied history as a queer in.

GAY CHIK!- LGBT SUPERHERO

(CC-BY-SA)2) MidnighterPossibly the bt-known gay superhero ic book circl, Midnighter was created as a parody of Batman, startg off the adult-rated Wildstorm ic Stormwatch. As one of the origal X-Men, he was portrayed as straight for s beg outed as gay 2015. Thanks to the X-Men ics’ love of time travel hijks, there are actually two versns of this character at the moment: A teenage Iceman who realized he was gay after Jean Grey read his md, and an adult versn who stayed the closet and dated women for years, but me out after beg nonted by his younger self.

The recent Iceman solo seri foced on his life after this revelatn, earng a mixed rponse bee while ’s great to see a gay character gettg their own ic, his emotnal arc is a rather old-fashned g-out story. She first appeared as Batman’s love tert the 1950s, shortly after the publitn of Sctn of the Innocent, a book that acced Batman of homosexual propaganda. In recent years she was rewrten to be gay herself, a ntroversial cisn that led to some problems of s her ic’s creators wanted her to marry her girliend, DC nixed the cisn by sayg hero “shouldn’t have happy personal liv, ” a dub statement that sounds pretty ridiculo the ntext of, say, Superman.

THREE GAY/BISEXUAL MALE SUPERHERO IN ONE DC COMIC? WELE TO 2022

After years of hts, he me out as gay 1992. LGBTQ and gay superhero list:Wonr Woman (DC Comics).

THE GAY SUPERHERO ‘ETERNALS’ IS ‘WHAT AUDIENC HAVE BEEN WAG FOR,’ SAYS GLAAD (GUT COLUMN)

The new Aquaman who appeared Young Jtice: Outsirs was also nfirmed to be a gay character 2019, ScreenRant reported at the time, and a wrer for DC Comics said durg an terview wh Comisy 2016 that Wonr Woman is the summer of 2019, CNN reported Valkyrie beme the first LGBTQ character to appear a Marvel movie Thor: Love and Thunr. Marvel Comics' first superhero to e out as gay was Northstar, a move the Tim praised an article published early 1992.

The long history of the ped csar is ltered wh homoerotic subtext, but recent years has bee much more than subtext. One of the origal X-Men, Bobby Drake is probably one of the most high-profile hero to e out recent is easier for publishers to make queer characters si-characters or one-offs, makg Iceman gay was a huge shift for ics. Not only did the character have a history on the screen, but when to the X-Men, Iceman is one of the stars who will no doubt appear Marvel tl until the day when Marvel shuts he hasn't been onscreen sce he me out officially, if the character do appear the future, makg him anythg but gay would fely e an uproar.

When to queer ic book characters, one of the first and most important was Northstar, who was the first character a Marvel ic to e out as gay "Alpha Flight" #106 (1992) then, the mutant superhero has had a sttered rerd of appearg the ics, but 2012 ma history once aga by beg part of the first gay weddg Marvel ics history.

DC INTRODUCED ITS FIRST GAY SUPERHERO ON TV EARLIER THAN YOU THK

A gay superhero parody of BYU's Brigham Young statue (2017) (image by Pastelopapa via Wikimedia).

Marvel’s first gay superhero is an amalgamatn of straight assumptns.

HOW THE NEW GAY AQUAMAN IS BEG RETRODUCED BY A BLACK SOCAL WRER

Northstar was troduced 1979 as the first gay character the superhero genre.

Bis men g and out of his home, or lgerg shirtls the background of panels, Northstar was d through the unique perspective of how straight men typilly view gay men. Northstar’s publitn history shows a cross sectn of 40 years of the Uned Stat’s mastream view of the gay muny.

In the 1980s he was portrayed as dismissive of women to the pot of misogyny, while the ghts, gay men were so often portrayed fictn as the gay bt iend that Northstar was portrayed almost solely the pany of women. His backstory evolved as homosexuals emerged om enomic dispary: Where once he was an unattend mor, he beme a wealthy, privileged man as the natnal narrative surroundg queer youth gradually expand.

15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU

Perhaps seemed that to keep the first out gay man was a potls exercise, pecially one so mired outdated stereotyp. From gay martial arts masters and lbian tectiv to badass bisexual antihero and transgenr magicians, the are 65 characters that've left their mark and helped change the genre. Origally troduced 1956 to silence crics who claimed Batman and Rob were gay lovers, Kate Kane was retroduced 2006 as a lbian who beme one of Gotham's ped crime fighters after her service the U.

Midnighter (Gay).

The first gay male superhero to headle a mass-market ic, Midnighter posss the abily to analyze all possible scenars before a fight begs.