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- MARVEL COMICS HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG ‘ASTONISHG X-MEN’
- MARVEL'S X-MEN SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE ON ABC'S THE VIEW
MARVEL COMICS HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG ‘ASTONISHG X-MEN’
"I'm gog to marry Patrick, " said McKellen, who is gay. Back 1992, Marvel Comics ma headl by revealg that Northstar, a Canadian superhero associated wh Alpha Flight and the X-Men, was gay.
“When gay marriage beme legal New York State, raised obv qutns sce most of our hero ri New York State.
MARVEL'S X-MEN SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE ON ABC'S THE VIEW
Northstar is the first openly gay character ics and he’s been a longterm relatnship wh his partner Kyle so the big qutn was – how would this change his relatnship?, ” says Marvel Comics edor--chief Axel Alonso. “Here are two people, tryg to live their liv – mutant and gay, black and gay – empowered their own ways, but also ge-dwellers, ” says Liu.
The tensns will rm Liu’s Astonishg X-Men stori gog forward, but Alonso says the uple will also have to nont homophobia om Northstar’s teammat. Canonilly, while this meant the past-Iceman was forced to fet all that growth when they were sent back time, the prent-day Iceman has grown om the experience and has been able to be openly gay-- eveng formg a relatnship wh Emma Frost's brother Christian. “He hated himself bee he was gay, ” she wrote.
” The other panelists cludg openly gay ic-book artists Phil Jimenez and Tania Ford, and Geeks OUT morator, Josh Siegel would try to tease out the subtext om the text, but Claremont murred: There was never an active attempt to make characters stand-s for the plight of the LGBT muny.