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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.
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.
MARVEL'S X-MEN SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE ON ABC'S THE VIEW
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.
” Dpe readg like somethg we would see now on social media, Larry’s story was published on November 1986 and never explicly addrsed self to gay rears. But ’s no surprise, Claremont add, that “gay people uld look at and fd ronance terms of who they were and what they were standg for. Openly gay director Bryan Sger ma the analogy an pable part of X-Men’s legacy wh a scene where Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) “ out” as a mutant to his parents X2 (a moment ma all the more prcient given the character’s recent reveal the ics).