The Runaways’ Virgia Gardner Is Breakg Superhero Taboos as Marvel’s First Gay Character

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• THE RUNAWAYS’ VIRGIA GARDNER IS BREAKG SUPERHERO TABOOS AS MARVEL’S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• LA FORD REVEALS SHE QU THE RUNAWAYS BEE HER BANDMAT 'WERE ALL GAY'
• LITA FORD SAYS SHE LEFT THE RUNAWAYS AFTER LEARNG ALL HER BANDMAT WERE GAY

THE RUNAWAYS’ VIRGIA GARDNER IS BREAKG SUPERHERO TABOOS AS MARVEL’S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

But beneath her sunny exterr, Karola, who is one of the first openly gay Marvel characters, grappl wh her inty—and Gardner unrstands the dissonance between appearanc and realy. It’s like I uld jt rip out a nunchucks route at a what I know of the ic book, Karola is the first gay Marvel character onscreen?

I also n’t totally speak to her sexualy on the show yet bee we want to be a surprise, but the ic books I believe she is one of the first openly gay, let’s see how we n dance around this… I assume that’s not somethg that’s not pletely elimated om her inty the is safe to assume.

LA FORD REVEALS SHE QU THE RUNAWAYS BEE HER BANDMAT 'WERE ALL GAY'

When guarist La Ford first joed The Runaways the mid-'70s at the age of jt 16, she knew nothg about homosexualy, she told HuffPost Live last week.

"Ford explaed to host Alyona Mkovski that she had never been exposed to bisexualy or homosexualy, so she "wasn't sure how to take . ""I didn't know anythg about [homosexualy], and was still the closet.

LITA FORD SAYS SHE LEFT THE RUNAWAYS AFTER LEARNG ALL HER BANDMAT WERE GAY

Nobody [back then] me out and said, 'I'm gay, '" she told HuffPost Live.

"When I found out that the girls were all gay the band, I wasn't sure how to take . Speakg about her brief ex om THE RUNAWAYS forty years ago after learng that her bandmat were gay, La said: "This was the early '70s, mid-'70s, so I was not aware of homosexualy; I didn't know anythg about .

And was still the closet; nobody me out and said, 'I'm gay' — nobody me out at that time.