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• MARVEL ANNOUNC FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI
• MARVEL COMICS HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG ‘ASTONISHG X-MEN’
• FIRST OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTER TO THE RCUE ON LGBT ADVOCY
• ALPHA FLIGHT #105-106 (1992): NORTHSTAR IS GAY
• MARVEL'S FIRST MAJOR GAY CHARACTER DERV A STAND-ALONE COMIC

MARVEL ANNOUNC FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI

PodstsPublished June 29, 2021The wrer and one of Marvel's first openly gay edors discs 'Marvel's Voic: Pri, ' the origal X-Men, Northstar, and more! The wrer, edor, active birr, and Harvard alum was associate edor at Marvel Comics om 1990-1996, and one of Marvel's first openly gay edors.

Most notably, Cooper was the associate edor of the landmark issue ALPHA FLIGHT #106, where Northstar out as gay, beg the first openly gay Super Hero the Marvel Universe, as well as troducg Victoria Monti, the first openly lbian character for Marvel. As he pots out to host Angélique Roché, his iend Kelly Corve, "who [he] hat for all eterny bee he beat [him] by jt a few months as the first openly gay edor at Marvel, " alerted him that an assistant edor job was openg up and knew about his dream of workg for Marvel Comics. Now, never md that DC had had openly gay characters before .

MARVEL COMICS HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG ‘ASTONISHG X-MEN’

Never md that the pennt ics had openly gay characters. That was seismic for Marvel to have an openly gay Super Hero. The people wrg ics, like me, are eher gay themselv or have gay people their liv.

FIRST OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTER TO THE RCUE ON LGBT ADVOCY

There are gay people who we are workg si by si wh. 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. Back 1992, Marvel Comics ma headl by revealg that Northstar, a Canadian superhero associated wh Alpha Flight and the X-Men, was gay.

ALPHA FLIGHT #105-106 (1992): NORTHSTAR IS 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 FIRST MAJOR GAY CHARACTER DERV A STAND-ALONE COMIC

14 NORTHSTAR WAS MARVEL'S FIRST MAJOR OPENLY GAY HERO. While Northstar's sexual orientatn had been hted at over the years by var creative teams, wrer Stt Lobll was the first to have Northstar officially e out as gay.

But certaly the biggt aspect of Northstar's legacy is that he was the first openly gay hero Marvel ics.