'Avengers: Endgame' clus a gay character - but 's an awkward choice

Contents:

• "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
• WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU
• WHY IS "BCE" NSIRED A "GAY NAME?"
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE
• LOU FERRIGNO -- BCE BANNER WAS TOO GAY FOR TV

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

“We wanted to be sual, wh the fact that the character is gay tied to the fabric of the storytellg and reprentg what everyday life is, ” Joe told Deadle. Wh Avengers: Endgame, Gay People Fally Exist the MCU.

WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU

The MCU's 22nd film, Avengers: Endgame, is the first to acknowledge the existence of gay people any form whatsoever. Ially, a blockbter movie wh over a hundred characters ntag a sgle unnamed gay character for a uple mut should not be newsworthy.

WHY IS "BCE" NSIRED A "GAY NAME?"

In this suatn, 's noteworthy that the 22nd MCU film, Avengers: Endgame, is the first to acknowledge the existence of gay people any form whatsoever.

Endgame's unnamed gay character appears early on the film, after the "Five Years Later" time skip. “Reprentatn is really important, " said -director Joe Rso, who plays the gay support group member, an terview wh Deadle.

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

"It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them. Steve/Tony shippers might fd amement certa pliments on appearanc, but such bs of funny banter don't unt as actual evince of a gay or bisexual relatnship. The unnamed gay character Endgame thankfully don't seem to be the endgame for queer reprentatn the MCU.

Transgenr actor Zach Barack has a role Spir-Man: Far From Home later this summer, and Eternals is supposed to feature a gay or bisexual male lead. K is gay.

They claimed that CBS executiv mand the name Bce not be ed bee was "too gay, " and feared that the dience would believe Bce Banner was a homosexual character. Obvly, the ia that a fairly mon name like Bce rri an herent associatn wh beg gay, and that anyone wh that name mt therefore be gay themselv, is ludicro. When he was creatg his Valiant Universe, Shooter had a gay teen as the lead of his seri, Harbger, (although Shooter left the book before the character officially "me out"), and I surely do not believe that the above scene was born out of any anti-gay views on Shooter's part - like I said, pretty much everyone the story is a terrible person, so I don't thk he tend anythg specific by havg the two gay guys beg rapists.

LOU FERRIGNO -- BCE BANNER WAS TOO GAY FOR TV

Marvel, at the time, had had, like, three gay characters ever appear a ic book story (none of whom me off particularly well, like a lispy stool pigeon that Moon Knight got rmatn om once and then lled a "sissy"), so when you have basilly no gay characters, to then have some of the first gay characters ever to appear your ics appear as rapists? To rep, the pot of this feature is not to ll Creator X a racist or Creator Y a homophobe or whatever. Why is "Bce" nsired a "gay name?