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Contents:

• IS HULK GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?
• THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY
• MARVEL COMICS REVEALS EARTH'S FIRST GAY SUPER-COUPLE
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE
• "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
• IS SHE-HULK GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL FILM

IS HULK GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?

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Is he gay, bisexual, or straight? The Bottom Le: Is the Hulk Gay, Bisex, or Straight? But as Avengers: Endgame reflectns ntue to e out, there is headle after headle about Marvel's first openly gay character.

After some light vtigatn, turns out that the first openly gay character is a glorified meo by director Joe Rso. The First Openly Gay Character qutn is a support group wh Capta Ameri after The Snap.

THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY

Then Capta Ameri tells him that 's brave to keep gog on dat ~wh other men~ and then the scene is be clear, I'm not tryg to say that Joe Rso's portrayal of a grievg gay man was rrect or offensive, though 's non that all gay men are fans of the Yanke, not the Mets. Wh that beg said, cludg a gay person a peripheral role isn't an acplishment as much as s payg attentn to every day life.

MARVEL COMICS REVEALS EARTH'S FIRST GAY SUPER-COUPLE

Givg a sile character the moniker of "gay" isn't blazg a trail for LGBT cln as much as s hopg s dience is ignorant enough to nflate the monplace wh somethg fact that an average gay man a Marvel movie mak news as newsworthy shouldn't be surprisg. It's the same approach Disney took by makg LeFou gay Bety and the Beast and sayg he was gog to have a "gay moment" when realy he jt very yly longed for Gaston. "We've done four of the films and was credibly important to to have a gay character reprented somewhere one of the four movi.

15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU

" But te reprentatn isn't a BINGO rd wh an empty slot that says "throw a gay here! " If anythg, stashg a gay man the narrative so that Capta Ameri n pat him on the head and tell him how brave he is only rerc the ia that LGBT people should feel lucky to be clud at ntent is imported om youTube. I would have preferred that the Rso Brothers, Disney, and the Marvel Universe ntued on their journey of creatg a good universe wh a pellg superhero narrative and left the wanton attempt of cludg a gay character on the cuttg room floor.

But when you make a pot to create a gay character, have him do the absolute least, and then have ld as a step forward for reprentatn, that's a b of a another world, I like to image that Thanos is alive and that he ed his Snap abili a more nstctive way. If you're gog to go out of your way to make a character gay, give them a storyle worth payg attentn to. Capta Marvel actrs Gemma Chan will also play a new character the MCU as of the new hero will end up as an LGBT character is unclear, but there were mors that Marvel Studs was seekg an openly gay actor for the role.

‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE

Avengers: Endgame gave the first openly gay character the Marvel Cematic Universe, but left a lot of fans (who have spent the last wag to see a gay superhero jo the Avengers) pretty unrwhelmed. Here's a selectn of openly gay Marvel characters who serve their time to she the MCU.

While many fans hope that Marvel Studs ntu to diversify the superhero they brg to live-actn, Eternals recently took a signifint step forward by prentg Phastos as part of the first openly gay superhero uple the MCU. Iceman had been fightg alongsi the X-Men the ics for s before he stunned dienc by g out as gay, but fans quickly accepted his sexualy. Wh Marvel Studs hopg to fix the X-Men film anchise after acquirg om Fox, this uld be a good ll for the MCU’s first gay character.

"AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE

Viv’s sexualy hasn’t been nfirmed the ics, but she's kissed Ironheart and was strongly suggted that she’s eher gay or asexual when she said, “an attractn to boys is nowhere wh me. ” The MCU uld easily portray the character as gay.

There was speculatn that Hercul would be a lead  The Eternals when Marvel announced that the film would star a gay lead, but the reference was stead to Phastos. Phyla-Vell was first intified as gay when she admted to and acted on her attractn towards Moondragon.

In any discsn of who will be the first openly gay superhero the MCU, ’s important to mentn the first openly gay superhero Marvel Comics.

IS SHE-HULK GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?

Northstar was a landmark character for ic book history bee he was one of the first gay superhero, the first to e out a Marvel book, and 2012, he beme the first character to have a same-sex weddg a mastream ic. Phastos may be half of the first openly gay relatnship the Marvel Cematic Universe, but Negasonic Teenage Warhead was part of the first gay superhero uple all of superhero cema several years earlier. The two shared the first gay kiss between major characters a Marvel ic back X-Force #45 while Rictor was huntg for Multiple Man New England.

Rictor has also dated women the Marvel Universe, such as Wolfsbane and Boom Boom, but he stated X-Force #20 that he always knew ep down that he was gay.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL FILM

Iceman (Gay). While most Marvel hero are secure their own inti, took Bobby Drake, aka Iceman, a long time to e to his own as a gay man.

K (Gay).

While his brother Wicn is one of the most well-known gay characters Marvel, Speed himself is also a member of the LGBTQ+ muny. This post clus one mor spoiler for Avengers: the news broke that Avengers: Endgame would clu the MCU’s first openly gay character, the natural assumptn was to image… an actual character. Endgame’s gay character is actually a meo om an unnamed civilian, troduced for a sgle scene where he talks about gog on a date wh a man.