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• MARVEL ANNOUNC FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI
• A NEW, GAY CAPTA AMERI N’T SAVE UNED STAT OF CAPTA AMERI #1
• GAYPTAAMERI STORI
• FEATURED FANFICTN

MARVEL ANNOUNC FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI

The first gay Capta Ameri is makg a triumphant return to Marvel ic books! Fischer ma his missn to help naways after his own g out went wrong and he was forced out of his homophobic father's home. Marvel Comics unveiled s first gay Capta Ameri character this week — and is set to but the role June durg Pri Month, a report said.

A NEW, GAY CAPTA AMERI N’T SAVE UNED STAT OF CAPTA AMERI #1

“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,” Bazaldua said.

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. “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. And 2015, Iceman, one of the origal X-Men created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby back 1963, me out as gay.

GAYPTAAMERI STORI

In A Queer History of the Uned Stat, Michael Bronski explas how the disciple of sexology the 1880s led to “the scientific disvery of ‘homosexualy, ’” creatg the opportuny for “open discsn about the subject.

” Unfortunately, Bronski ntu, this new language “immediately led to a clear articulatn of negative stereotyp about homosexuals.

”Later, the Amerin ary tried to block gay men and women om enlistg durg World War II by classifyg queerns as a psychiatric disorr. Allan Bébé explas Comg Out Unr Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women World War II that “the reason for excludg [gay men] as psychopaths was that… they were nsired to be irrponsible troublemakers who were unable to ntrol their sir or learn om their mistak and th threatened other men. ” Or, as Bronski puts , “A direct lk was beg ma between homosexual behavr and a threat to natnal secury.

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MarvelIn the preface to Comg Out Unr Fire, Bébé reflects on what impact his rearch and wrg had on him:Begun as the story of how gay Amerins had served their untry, this book evolved to a history of how the ary’s mobilizatn for war ma soldiers nont homosexualy their personal liv and changed the ways that homosexualy f to Amerin stutns. The send, spotlightg new Capta Ameri Aaron Fischer, is om Marvel newer Josh Tjilo (Be Gay, Do Comics, Dodge Cy) and artist Jan Bazaldua (X-Force, Star Wars).