Y and Negasonic Teenage Warhead are the first openly gay superhero cema. But Deadpool 2's simply taken a small first step.
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- 'DEADPOOL 2' IS THE GAYT SUPERHERO MOVIE YET. THAT'S NOT SAYG MUCH.
- WILL DEADPOOL’S SEQUEL INTRODUCE HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST OPENLY QUEER SUPERHERO?IN THE ICS HE’S PANSEXUAL; THE H MOVIE PLAYED HOMOEROTICISM MOSTLY FOR LGHS. BUT THERE’S REAL POTENTIAL FOR A NOW-EVABLE DEADPOOL SEQUEL TO PH BOUNDARI LIKE NO OTHER SUPERHERO MOVIE BEFORE.BY STT BEGGSFEBARY 17, 2016COURTY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOXSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEDEADPOOL DO WHAT A LOT OF SUPERHERO DO. HE BATTL BAD GUYS, HE’S SENTIALLY STCTIBLE, AND HE WEARS AN SANELY TIGHT SPANX SU. HE (PLAYED BY RYAN REYNOLDS) EARNED A LOT OF ATTENTN THIS WEEKEND BEE HE ALSO CURS LIKE ERNT HEMGWAY ON A BENR, BREAKS THE FOURTH WALL TO CHAT WH THE DIENCE, AND EXPERIMENTS SEXUALLY WH HIS STRIP-CLUB-WARS GIRLIEND, VANSA (MORENA BACR). OH, AND BEE HIS MOVIE OPENED TO AN ENORMO $150 LN OVER THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND, MTG A BRAND-NEW ANCHISE THE PROCS.DEADPOOL IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE FIRST SUPERHERO MOVIE WHERE THE SUPERHERO GETS (LOVGLY) ANALLY PERATED BY HIS MA SQUEEZE, AND ANY SIGNS OF PROTT OM WA CLEARLY HAVE TO DO WH PHYSIL DISFORT, NOT GAY PANIC. DEADPOOL STILL FALLS VICTIM TO A NSERVATIVE, “DAMSEL DISTRS” STORY LE, BUT THERE ARE SIGNS OF SPICE HERE THE TYPILLY VANILLA-GLAZED WORLD OF IC-BOOK CEMA. THAT’S PARTIALLY BEE DEADPOOL IS ONE OF THE FEW R-RATED SUPERHERO MOVI, BUT THE CHARACTER OF DEADPOOL HIMSELF IS WELL SUED FOR PHG BOUNDARI. AND, BASED ON SOME CHATTER TH FAR, MAY PH EVEN MORE OF THEM THE NOW-EVABLE SEQUELS TO E.IN THE ICS, THE SARSTIC MERCENARY SWGS ALL WAYS, HTG ON WOMEN, MEN, AND SPIR-MEN ALIKE. HE’S BEEN SCRIBED AS “OMNISEXUAL” BY ONE OF HIS IC WRERS AND “PANSEXUAL” BY THE MOVIE’S DIRECTOR, TIM MILLER. SO FAR, HOWEVER, ALL OF THAT FLIRTATN HAS MANIFTED SOLELY HETEROSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS, AND THE MOVIE FOLLOWS SU WH THE SAME KD OF SUAL, SAME-SEX ATTRACTNS THAT ARE WAVED OFF WH A LGH.DEADPOOL M ON FONDLG WOLVERE’S BALLS AND PROCLAIMS HIS AROAL WHILE BATTLG HIS NEMIS, AJAX (ED SKRE). JEFEY BLOOMER AT SLATE TAK THOSE MOMENTS AS THE UAL LADDISH FARE, LLG DEADPOOL “NO MORE PANSEXUAL THAN A AT BOY WHO SMACKS ANOTHER BROTHER’S ASS AND THEN GIGGL ABOUT , ACKNOWLEDGG A HOMOEROTIC ENERGY HE ONLY KNOWS HOW TO DISMISS WH A JOKE.” IT’S THAT FLIRTATN-WHOUT-REPRENTATN DYNAMIC THAT HAS GOTTEN OTHER POPULAR PROPERTI LIKE SHERLOCK AND SUPERNATURAL SLAPPED WH ACCATNS OF “GAY BAG.” BUT THE NTEXT OF THE FILM BRGS THE FLIRTATNS AND SAFELY HOMOSOCIAL JOK OUTSI THE AT HOE AT LEAST TO THE ONT PORCH. I DON’T REMEMBER VAN WILR LGERG SO LONG, SO OFTEN, AND SO MATTER-OF-FACTLY ON REYNOLDS’S TONED ASS, BUT DEADPOOL DO, LEAVG S SRRED SUPERHERO TO DANCE AROUND SEXUALY LIKE BUGS BUNNY A PH-UP BRA AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, LEAVG THE DIENCE TO AL WH .FOR MOST MOVIEGOERS WHOUT PRR KNOWLEDGE OF THE IC BOOKS (AND THAT’S A LOT OF THEM), DEADPOOL WILL NOT EVEN REGISTER AS THE FIRST MASTREAM SUPERHERO MOVIE FEATURG A BISEXUAL CHARACTER. DEADPOOL FFL FEATHERS ANY WAY HE N, THEN HEADS BACK HOME TO HAVE SEX WH HIS MANIC-PIXIE-CUT GIRLIEND, SO ’S EASY TO THK HE’S JT BEG GOOFY ABOUT GOG GAY. WHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF THE IC-BOOK NON, THE DEADPOOL OF THE MOVIE APPEARS THOROUGHLY STRAIGHT.THAT’S WHY THE SEQUEL HAS ALL THE PROMISE THE WORLD FOR BRGG THE CHARACTER FIVELY OUT OF THE JOKE-PROTECTED CLOSET. DPE THE FACT THAT DEADPOOL, MORE THAN A LOT OF OTHER SUPERHERO FILMS BEFORE , HG ON THE LOVE STORY BETWEEN WA AND HIS GIRLIEND, REYNOLDS RECENTLY SAID THAT “WOULD BE GREAT” FOR THE CHARACTER TO HAVE A BOYIEND THE NEXT MOVIE. HE HOP THAT HE AND THE CREATIVE TEAM N BREAK MORE BOUNDARI THE FUTURE, AND FOX—WHICH ISN’T NEARLY AS TIGHT-LEASHED WH S SUPERHERO AS MARVEL/DISNEY—MAY VERY WELL GIVE THEM ROOM TO N.AFTER ALL, THE HARD R-RATG KEPT DEADPOOL OM OPENG CHA, WHICH IS UALLY THE TERNATNAL SPEGOAT WHEN STUDS EXPLA WHY THEY KEEP THEIR BLOCKBTERS NSERVATIVE: ORR TO GET CHE YUAN, YOU HAVE TO PASS THEIR STRICT CENSOR BOARDS. THAT DEADPOOL IS A SMASH SUCCS EVEN WHOUT OPENG THAT SH-ABUNDANT MARKET KNOCKS DOWN THE SUPPOSED MA HURDLE THAT FILMMAKERS WOULD FACE LIVERG A GAY SUPERHERO.AND REGARDLS OF WHAT MAR RUB THKS, GAY MARRIAGE IS THE LAW OF THE LAND. ACCEPTANCE OF HOMOSEXUALY IS HIGHER THAN EVER ACROSS THE GENERATNAL BOARD, AND LENNIALS PARTICULAR DON’T SEEM TO RE WHAT KD OF LOVE WE’RE ALL SEEKG OUT. KNOWG THIS, THE FILM’S CREATORS EVEN WORKED THEIR HERO’S FLEXIBLE SEXUALY TO THE ANIMATED CLOSG CREDS WHERE A RTOON DEADPOOL LTILY APPROVED OF BOTH MALE AND FEMALE MEMBERS OF THE ST, SAVG HIS MOST ENTHIASTIC REACTN FOR ED SKRE.DEADPOOL DATG A MAN THE NEXT MOVIE WOULD BE A PROFOUND STATEMENT, ALBE WRAPPED AN UNEXPECTED PACKAGE OF LORFUL RISN AND IMMATURE HUMOR. IT WOULD ALSO BE THE CULMATN OF WHAT OTHER MOVI AND HERO HAVE FLIRTED WH FOR YEARS. FROM LORI PETTY’S FLUID, TER-SPECI SEXUALY TANK GIRL TO CATWOMAN’S NTUAL ON-SCREEN ALLURE (SHE’S EXPLICLY BISEXUAL THE ICS) TO THE E OF X-MEN’S MUTANTS AS AN ALLEGORY FOR HOMOSEXUALY AND OTHERNS.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOPENLY GAY DIRECTOR BRYAN SGER, THE SHEPHERD FOR FOX’S X-MEN MOVI, HAS SAID THAT AN OPENLY GAY ON-SCREEN SUPERHERO IS “EVABLE” AND THAT HE HOP HE’LL GET TO CLU THAT ELEMENT FUTURE FILMS. DEADPOOL 2 (WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN GREEN-L BY THE STUD) MAY BEAT HIM TO . AS OF THIS WEEKEND, DEADPOOL IS THE MOST WELL-KNOWN NON-STRAIGHT SUPERHERO THE WORLD. THE STAR WHO PLAYS HIM IS ON-BOARD FOR GETTG A BOYIEND, THE STUD HAS NO GOOD EXCE FOR KEEPG HIM PANSEXUAL NAME ONLY, AND IF DEADPOOL’S CURRENT GIRLIEND STICKS AROUND, THEY ULD BRG POLYAMORY TO THE PICTURE TO BOOT. (IF ANY SUPERHERO GIRLIEND WOULD BE UP FOR THAT, ’S VANSA.) IMAGE THAT.THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR AN OPENLY GAY ON-SCREEN SUPERHERO. DEADPOOL 2 SHOULD TAKE THAT BALL AND N WH .STT BEGGS
- IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
- DEADPOOL’S KARAN SONI HAS PLANS TO MAKE A GAY ROM COM WH HIS PARTNER
- RYAN REYNOLDS WANTS MORE GAY DEADPOOL, TOO: ‘IT’S SOMETHG THAT I’D LOVE TO SEE MORE OF’
'DEADPOOL 2' IS THE GAYT SUPERHERO MOVIE YET. THAT'S NOT SAYG MUCH.
Acrdg to Gay Tim, Deadpool 2 mak a short reference solidifyg the film genre's first-ever LGBT+ romance. She is shown datg Yo, a brand-new mutant to this universe, and Deadpool 2 do explicly state they are an em (via Exprs), Gay Tim did share a few veats for the LGBT+ uple.
Acrdg to Gay Tim, Shatterstar do not volize anythg about his sexualy Deadpool 2, but the sequel do lend a voice to the LGBT+ muny elsewhere. K is gay.
Deadpool is undoubtedly the first superhero movie where the superhero gets (lovgly) anally perated by his ma squeeze, and any signs of prott om Wa clearly have to do wh physil disfort, not gay panic. Jefey Bloomer at Slate tak those moments as the ual laddish fare, llg Deadpool “no more pansexual than a at boy who smacks another brother’s ass and then giggl about , acknowledgg a homoerotic energy he only knows how to dismiss wh a joke. ” It’s that flirtatn-whout-reprentatn dynamic that has gotten other popular properti like Sherlock and Supernatural slapped wh accatns of “gay bag.
WILL DEADPOOL’S SEQUEL INTRODUCE HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST OPENLY QUEER SUPERHERO?IN THE ICS HE’S PANSEXUAL; THE H MOVIE PLAYED HOMOEROTICISM MOSTLY FOR LGHS. BUT THERE’S REAL POTENTIAL FOR A NOW-EVABLE DEADPOOL SEQUEL TO PH BOUNDARI LIKE NO OTHER SUPERHERO MOVIE BEFORE.BY STT BEGGSFEBARY 17, 2016COURTY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOXSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEDEADPOOL DO WHAT A LOT OF SUPERHERO DO. HE BATTL BAD GUYS, HE’S SENTIALLY STCTIBLE, AND HE WEARS AN SANELY TIGHT SPANX SU. HE (PLAYED BY RYAN REYNOLDS) EARNED A LOT OF ATTENTN THIS WEEKEND BEE HE ALSO CURS LIKE ERNT HEMGWAY ON A BENR, BREAKS THE FOURTH WALL TO CHAT WH THE DIENCE, AND EXPERIMENTS SEXUALLY WH HIS STRIP-CLUB-WARS GIRLIEND, VANSA (MORENA BACR). OH, AND BEE HIS MOVIE OPENED TO AN ENORMO $150 LN OVER THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND, MTG A BRAND-NEW ANCHISE THE PROCS.DEADPOOL IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE FIRST SUPERHERO MOVIE WHERE THE SUPERHERO GETS (LOVGLY) ANALLY PERATED BY HIS MA SQUEEZE, AND ANY SIGNS OF PROTT OM WA CLEARLY HAVE TO DO WH PHYSIL DISFORT, NOT GAY PANIC. DEADPOOL STILL FALLS VICTIM TO A NSERVATIVE, “DAMSEL DISTRS” STORY LE, BUT THERE ARE SIGNS OF SPICE HERE THE TYPILLY VANILLA-GLAZED WORLD OF IC-BOOK CEMA. THAT’S PARTIALLY BEE DEADPOOL IS ONE OF THE FEW R-RATED SUPERHERO MOVI, BUT THE CHARACTER OF DEADPOOL HIMSELF IS WELL SUED FOR PHG BOUNDARI. AND, BASED ON SOME CHATTER TH FAR, MAY PH EVEN MORE OF THEM THE NOW-EVABLE SEQUELS TO E.IN THE ICS, THE SARSTIC MERCENARY SWGS ALL WAYS, HTG ON WOMEN, MEN, AND SPIR-MEN ALIKE. HE’S BEEN SCRIBED AS “OMNISEXUAL” BY ONE OF HIS IC WRERS AND “PANSEXUAL” BY THE MOVIE’S DIRECTOR, TIM MILLER. SO FAR, HOWEVER, ALL OF THAT FLIRTATN HAS MANIFTED SOLELY HETEROSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS, AND THE MOVIE FOLLOWS SU WH THE SAME KD OF SUAL, SAME-SEX ATTRACTNS THAT ARE WAVED OFF WH A LGH.DEADPOOL M ON FONDLG WOLVERE’S BALLS AND PROCLAIMS HIS AROAL WHILE BATTLG HIS NEMIS, AJAX (ED SKRE). JEFEY BLOOMER AT SLATE TAK THOSE MOMENTS AS THE UAL LADDISH FARE, LLG DEADPOOL “NO MORE PANSEXUAL THAN A AT BOY WHO SMACKS ANOTHER BROTHER’S ASS AND THEN GIGGL ABOUT , ACKNOWLEDGG A HOMOEROTIC ENERGY HE ONLY KNOWS HOW TO DISMISS WH A JOKE.” IT’S THAT FLIRTATN-WHOUT-REPRENTATN DYNAMIC THAT HAS GOTTEN OTHER POPULAR PROPERTI LIKE SHERLOCK AND SUPERNATURAL SLAPPED WH ACCATNS OF “GAY BAG.” BUT THE NTEXT OF THE FILM BRGS THE FLIRTATNS AND SAFELY HOMOSOCIAL JOK OUTSI THE AT HOE AT LEAST TO THE ONT PORCH. I DON’T REMEMBER VAN WILR LGERG SO LONG, SO OFTEN, AND SO MATTER-OF-FACTLY ON REYNOLDS’S TONED ASS, BUT DEADPOOL DO, LEAVG S SRRED SUPERHERO TO DANCE AROUND SEXUALY LIKE BUGS BUNNY A PH-UP BRA AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, LEAVG THE DIENCE TO AL WH .FOR MOST MOVIEGOERS WHOUT PRR KNOWLEDGE OF THE IC BOOKS (AND THAT’S A LOT OF THEM), DEADPOOL WILL NOT EVEN REGISTER AS THE FIRST MASTREAM SUPERHERO MOVIE FEATURG A BISEXUAL CHARACTER. DEADPOOL FFL FEATHERS ANY WAY HE N, THEN HEADS BACK HOME TO HAVE SEX WH HIS MANIC-PIXIE-CUT GIRLIEND, SO ’S EASY TO THK HE’S JT BEG GOOFY ABOUT GOG GAY. WHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF THE IC-BOOK NON, THE DEADPOOL OF THE MOVIE APPEARS THOROUGHLY STRAIGHT.THAT’S WHY THE SEQUEL HAS ALL THE PROMISE THE WORLD FOR BRGG THE CHARACTER FIVELY OUT OF THE JOKE-PROTECTED CLOSET. DPE THE FACT THAT DEADPOOL, MORE THAN A LOT OF OTHER SUPERHERO FILMS BEFORE , HG ON THE LOVE STORY BETWEEN WA AND HIS GIRLIEND, REYNOLDS RECENTLY SAID THAT “WOULD BE GREAT” FOR THE CHARACTER TO HAVE A BOYIEND THE NEXT MOVIE. HE HOP THAT HE AND THE CREATIVE TEAM N BREAK MORE BOUNDARI THE FUTURE, AND FOX—WHICH ISN’T NEARLY AS TIGHT-LEASHED WH S SUPERHERO AS MARVEL/DISNEY—MAY VERY WELL GIVE THEM ROOM TO N.AFTER ALL, THE HARD R-RATG KEPT DEADPOOL OM OPENG CHA, WHICH IS UALLY THE TERNATNAL SPEGOAT WHEN STUDS EXPLA WHY THEY KEEP THEIR BLOCKBTERS NSERVATIVE: ORR TO GET CHE YUAN, YOU HAVE TO PASS THEIR STRICT CENSOR BOARDS. THAT DEADPOOL IS A SMASH SUCCS EVEN WHOUT OPENG THAT SH-ABUNDANT MARKET KNOCKS DOWN THE SUPPOSED MA HURDLE THAT FILMMAKERS WOULD FACE LIVERG A GAY SUPERHERO.AND REGARDLS OF WHAT MAR RUB THKS, GAY MARRIAGE IS THE LAW OF THE LAND. ACCEPTANCE OF HOMOSEXUALY IS HIGHER THAN EVER ACROSS THE GENERATNAL BOARD, AND LENNIALS PARTICULAR DON’T SEEM TO RE WHAT KD OF LOVE WE’RE ALL SEEKG OUT. KNOWG THIS, THE FILM’S CREATORS EVEN WORKED THEIR HERO’S FLEXIBLE SEXUALY TO THE ANIMATED CLOSG CREDS WHERE A RTOON DEADPOOL LTILY APPROVED OF BOTH MALE AND FEMALE MEMBERS OF THE ST, SAVG HIS MOST ENTHIASTIC REACTN FOR ED SKRE.DEADPOOL DATG A MAN THE NEXT MOVIE WOULD BE A PROFOUND STATEMENT, ALBE WRAPPED AN UNEXPECTED PACKAGE OF LORFUL RISN AND IMMATURE HUMOR. IT WOULD ALSO BE THE CULMATN OF WHAT OTHER MOVI AND HERO HAVE FLIRTED WH FOR YEARS. FROM LORI PETTY’S FLUID, TER-SPECI SEXUALY TANK GIRL TO CATWOMAN’S NTUAL ON-SCREEN ALLURE (SHE’S EXPLICLY BISEXUAL THE ICS) TO THE E OF X-MEN’S MUTANTS AS AN ALLEGORY FOR HOMOSEXUALY AND OTHERNS.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHOPENLY GAY DIRECTOR BRYAN SGER, THE SHEPHERD FOR FOX’S X-MEN MOVI, HAS SAID THAT AN OPENLY GAY ON-SCREEN SUPERHERO IS “EVABLE” AND THAT HE HOP HE’LL GET TO CLU THAT ELEMENT FUTURE FILMS. DEADPOOL 2 (WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN GREEN-L BY THE STUD) MAY BEAT HIM TO . AS OF THIS WEEKEND, DEADPOOL IS THE MOST WELL-KNOWN NON-STRAIGHT SUPERHERO THE WORLD. THE STAR WHO PLAYS HIM IS ON-BOARD FOR GETTG A BOYIEND, THE STUD HAS NO GOOD EXCE FOR KEEPG HIM PANSEXUAL NAME ONLY, AND IF DEADPOOL’S CURRENT GIRLIEND STICKS AROUND, THEY ULD BRG POLYAMORY TO THE PICTURE TO BOOT. (IF ANY SUPERHERO GIRLIEND WOULD BE UP FOR THAT, ’S VANSA.) IMAGE THAT.THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR AN OPENLY GAY ON-SCREEN SUPERHERO. DEADPOOL 2 SHOULD TAKE THAT BALL AND N WH .STT BEGGS
” But the ntext of the film brgs the flirtatns and safely homosocial jok outsi the at hoe at least to the ont porch. Deadpool ffl feathers any way he n, then heads back home to have sex wh his manic-pixie-cut girliend, so ’s easy to thk he’s jt beg goofy about gog gay.
IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
That Deadpool is a smash succs even whout openg that sh-abundant market knocks down the supposed ma hurdle that filmmakers would face liverg a gay regardls of what Mar Rub thks, gay marriage is the law of the land. Acceptance of homosexualy is higher than ever across the generatnal board, and lennials particular don’t seem to re what kd of love we’re all seekg out.
From Lori Petty’s fluid, ter-speci sexualy Tank Girl to Catwoman’s ntual on-screen allure (she’s explicly bisexual the ics) to the e of X-Men’s mutants as an allegory for homosexualy and otherns. Northstar (Jean-Pl Bebier) is probably the most famo (and the first Marvel ics history) openly gay superhero many dienc might never have heard of. Back then, ic would not have allowed an openly gay character, so creator John Byrne had hts through meetg a ‘special iend’ named Raymon Belmon.
Bryne even went on to fend his actns, sayg that “there need to be gays ics bee there are gays real life. Wh hts of mutants and the X-Men jog the MCU soon the form of The Mutants, perhaps Marvel should give this historil gay character a chance on the big screen. Jean Grey reads a teenaged time-displaced Iceman and outs him as gay.
DEADPOOL’S KARAN SONI HAS PLANS TO MAKE A GAY ROM COM WH HIS PARTNER
If this were ma to a gay Marvel film would surely be one of the worst g-out films of all time. Dpe a few smirkg nods to extremely -the-know viewers, Reynolds’ film versn of Deadpool is no more pansexual than a at boy who smacks another brother’s ass and then giggl about , acknowledgg a homoerotic energy he only knows how to dismiss wh a joke. He n be gay one mute, hetero the next, etc.
Deadpool referenc Wolvere’s balls, and seems to have an obssn wh Hugh Jackman, a kd of playful homosocial way. Gay?
Is Deadpool gay, bisexual, straight, or somethg else that is ncrete Marvel non? The first explicly gay superhero Marvel Comics was North Star, a mutant and X-Men off-shoot om Alpha Flight #7 2011.
RYAN REYNOLDS WANTS MORE GAY DEADPOOL, TOO: ‘IT’S SOMETHG THAT I’D LOVE TO SEE MORE OF’
Sce then, one of the origal X-Men, Iceman/Bobby Drake, was revealed to be gay last year’s Iceman seri. The scene was subversive to the mastream, and enarg to many young and alienated LGBTQ geeks, bee was an obv metaphor for gay pri—and the poison of homophobia—durg the height of the Bh Years when gay bashg and homophobia went very mastream. Bh would n a succsful reelectn mpaign that, among other thgs, falsely promised to create a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage.