Wrer Roxane Gay opens up about beg Marvel's first black woman lead wrer and her new project, 'Black Panther: World of Wakanda.'
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- IS BLACK PANTHER GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
- MARVEL’S EARLIT GAY CHARACTERS INTRODUCED DON MCGREGOR’S BLACK PANTHER COMICS
- ROXANE GAY ON BEG THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE LEAD MARVEL WRER: 'WE AREN'T ALLOWED TO FAIL'
IS BLACK PANTHER GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
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MARVEL’S EARLIT GAY CHARACTERS INTRODUCED DON MCGREGOR’S BLACK PANTHER COMICS
The recent books by Ta-Nehisi Coat, Roxane Gay, and Evan Narcisse have had great character-driven stori. * is black panther gay in the comics *
Meanwhile, Chavez (Xochl Gomez) herself, who intifi as a lbian the ics, do wear an LGBTQ+ badge durg the movie but the film don't explore her own biggt form of LGBTQ+ reprentatn me "Eternals, " which premiered last year, where one of the hero Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) is married to a man and has the first on-screen gay kiss. If reports about Black Panther's sexual chemistry is right, then the movie may be takg a page straight om Roxane Gay's n of World of Wakanda. Regardls of fan petns, the MCU will ntue on s prested trajectory even if do leave fans smartg over s homogeno take on sexualy.
The relatnship between Taku and Venomm is one of the many highlights of “Panther’s Rage” but may surprise people to learn that om very the begng, McGregor tend both characters as gay. Given the publishg rtrictns of the era, there was no nceivable way Marvel would have released a book wh two openly gay characters.
Dpe the stggle jt to get the material to rears’ hands, McGregor and his artistic llaborators found ways to directly ht at Venomm and Taku’s homosexualy. I’m remd of how the Static Shock animated seri, Static/Virgil’s bt iend Richie Foley was sentially based on the character Rick Stone who was openly gay the origal Miltone ics.
ROXANE GAY ON BEG THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE LEAD MARVEL WRER: 'WE AREN'T ALLOWED TO FAIL'
Yet, there was no doubt Richie was gay. “It’ll never e up the show bee ’s Y-7 but as far as I’m ncerned, Richie is gay…. The way I alt wh Richie’s homosexualy was to wre him aggrsively and unnvcgly announcg his heterosexualy whenever possible (“Wow!
It’s not simply the fact that Don McGregor clud a gay relatnship the ics but the powerful sense of validatn he rporated to Taku and Venomm that enable gay rears to see themselv reflected the medium as heroic. Wrten by femist thor and cric Roxane Gay, the "World of Wakanda" seri provid much-need ntext to the character Ayo. They are two highly celebrated characters for their strength and reprentatn the world of ic books (via Gay Tim), and while Aneka was (fally) troduced the sequel film "Wakanda Forever" the origal "Black Panther" movie had an ia to make up for the characters' absence wh Ayo.
Michael Simeon, also known as the “Black Gay Comic Geek, ” eply unrstands the stggle of fdg Black queer characters ics and other genre fandoms.