Lee 'creat world's first gay superhero'

Contents:

• STAN LEE EXPLAS WHY HE NEVER MA GAY MARVEL SUPERHERO
• STAN LEE LEARNS MARVEL CREATN ICEMAN IS GAY: 'WOW, I NEVER KNEW THAT'
• SURPRISED STAN LEE ASKS, 'IS ICEMAN REALLY GAY?'
• THE MOMENT STAN LEE LEARNED THAT HIS CHARACTER ICEMAN IS GAY: LISTEN
• RIP STAN LEE GAY PORN VIOS
• STAN LEE: SPIR-MAN SHOULDN'T BE GAY OR BLACK
• 'FIRST CLASS': THE LATT CHAPTER THE 'X-MEN' GAY-RIGHTS PARABLE
• HEAR STAN LEE DISVER FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT ICEMAN IS GAY
• LEE 'CREAT WORLD'S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO'

STAN LEE EXPLAS WHY HE NEVER MA GAY MARVEL SUPERHERO

(The ic book Iceman me out as gay 2015. Read Next | The Are 3 Fabulo New Books about the Fe Art of Beg Gay. It simply never occurred to Stan Lee, the celebrated creator of treasured Marvel ic book characters, to make a gay superhero, the 92-year-old has veteran ic book wrer brought Spir-Man, Iron Man and the Fantastic Four to life, but his spiratn relied on personal experience, She Knows Magaze reports.

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STAN LEE LEARNS MARVEL CREATN ICEMAN IS GAY: 'WOW, I NEVER KNEW THAT'

Spir-Man -creator Stan Lee has rpond to actor Andrew Garfield's recent what-if scenar which Peter Parker uld be gay or bisexual, jokg, "I figure one sex is enough for anybody. … So why n’t he be gay?

"It was jt more a philosophil qutn, and what I believe about Spir-Man is that he do stand for everybody: black, whe, Che, Malaysian, gay, straight, lbian, bisexual, transgenr. Comic book legend Stan Lee was surprised to learn that his Marvel character Iceman is, 92, created Iceman – real name Bobby Drake – wh artist Jack Kirby and the character ma his first Marvel outg The X-Men #1 April 2015, issue 40 of All-New X-Men, Iceman is "outed" as beg gay – somethg Lee was unaware he was rmed of his character’s sexualy on BBC Rad 4’s Today programme, he replied: “I wasn’t volved that, that may have been after I stopped wrg the books. I didn’t really have any gay characters.

SURPRISED STAN LEE ASKS, 'IS ICEMAN REALLY GAY?'

If they were gay I didn’t play up to the fact that they were. Is Iceman really gay? In April we told you about Iceman, one of the origal X-Men, g out as gay.

THE MOMENT STAN LEE LEARNED THAT HIS CHARACTER ICEMAN IS GAY: LISTEN

I didn't really have any gay characters. If they were gay I didn't play up to the fact that they were. In the April issue of the All New X-Men, Jean Grey helped Bobby unrstand that he is gay even though his future self isn't.

RIP STAN LEE GAY PORN VIOS

Listen to Stan Lee learn that his character Iceman is gay, below:. "For example, I'd like Spir-Man to stay as he is, but I have no problem creatg a superhero who's homosexual. Can Spir-Man Be Black or Gay?

'First Class': The Latt Chapter the 'X-Men' Gay-Rights ParableThe seri is tailor-ma to echo the stggle of real-life opprsed groups20th Century FoxIn X-Men: First Class, one young mutant-human tells another, "You have no ia what I'd give to feel...

" It's a moment anyone who went to high school n empathize wh, though might mean somethg more to those who grew up gay—the adolcent experience when you disver, like the X-Men, somethg your nature that mak you different om the majory of the people around you. Parallels between the mutant experience and the gay experience perva First Class, which opened on Friday to a weekend box-office hl of $56 ln.

STAN LEE: SPIR-MAN SHOULDN'T BE GAY OR BLACK

The film's tchphrase is "mutant and proud, " a playful riff on post-Stonewall self-acceptance, and a "don't ask, don't tell" joke even fds s way to the s own way, X-Men has bee the most subversive morn ic-book anchise, translatg for a untry of summer moviegoers the entire theater of gay polics. The agenda was set wh the origal X-Men 2000, directed by the openly gay Bryan Sger.

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'FIRST CLASS': THE LATT CHAPTER THE 'X-MEN' GAY-RIGHTS PARABLE

"But what if X-Men was gay om the begng? Fury and His Howlg Commandos, featured a st that was for the time unually diverse (black, Italian, Jewish), cludg one character—a srf-wearg Br named Percival Pkerton—that tentnally played on gay stereotyp.

In his article “Makg Gay Sense of the X-Men, ” William Earnt not how Mystique’s shape-shiftg abily, allowg her to “look like everyone else, ” closely mirrors the gay phenomenon of “passg. That might make X-Men’s ronance mostly a matter of timg—homosexualy, after all, still unts as a headle ntroversy, and one ripe for fictnalizatn.

HEAR STAN LEE DISVER FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT ICEMAN IS GAY

In between all of the wonrful tribut that are beg posted on social media, you might even enunter trolls who are already makg jok about his ath while claimg that he was homophobic — or, at the very least, tolerant of queer inty. And jt like the Thg feared that no one would ever love a monster like him, I too nvced myself that I was no longer worthy of love once I realized that I was gay. Detractors might pot out that Stan Lee never created a gay superhero of his own and they wouldn’t be wrong.

Marvel as a whole refed to acknowledge the LGBTQ muny a posive way for s and even the ’90s, the pany enforced a policy where any seri that featured proment gay characters was forced to rry an “Adults Only” label.

LEE 'CREAT WORLD'S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO'

It’s no wonr then that Stan himself didn’t rporate queer them to his work back the day, but that hasn’t stopped crics om argug that Marvel’s former head honcho is still homophobic.

While speakg to She Knows a few years back, Lee claimed that creatg a gay superhero had “never occurred” to him before, explag that he n only wre about what he knows. Around the same time, Lee also told Newsarama that he don’t “see any reason to change the sexual proclivi of a character (like Spir-Man) once they’ve already been tablished, ” though he would have “no problem wh creatg new, homosexual superhero. Although the project ultimately fell through, this story of a young gay superhero trag would have predated the current flux of queer vigilant on our TV screens by almost a , nfirmg Stan’s stat as a pneer this century, too.

When he disvered that Iceman had bee openly gay the ics, Stan accepted this velopment wholeheartedly, tellg Today that the prry should always be about tellg “good stori. No longer rtraed by polici that forced queer characters to hi metaphor, openly gay wrers like Sa Grace n ph symbolic placeholrs asi favor of genuely queer characters that LGBTQ rears n now intify wh. The reporter asked him about Iceman of the X-Men's recent revelatn that he's gay, askg specifilly about the a b of a chuckle, Lee answered, simply, "I wasn't volved that.