Is Capta Ameri Gay, Bisexual or Straight? What Is Marvel Canon?

Contents:

• MARVEL ARE RELEASG A GAY CAPTA AMERI THIS SUMMER
• AVENGERS DIRECTORS REVEAL EXISTG MARVEL CHARACTER WILL E OUT AS GAY FUTURE MCU FILM
• MARVEL TRODUCG FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI THE ICS
• MARVEL TRODUC THE FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI TO THE ICS
• SUPER: THE GAYT ‘STUCKY’ MOMENTS THE ‘CAPTA AMERI: CIVIL WAR’ TRAILER
• CAPTA AMERI IS STRAIGHT, BUT ICS HAVE MANY GAY CHARACTERS
• A NEW, GAY CAPTA AMERI N’T SAVE UNED STAT OF CAPTA AMERI #1
• IS CAPTA AMERI GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
• ANTHONY MACKIE SHOULD KNOW WHY LGBTQ+ FANS SHIP ‘THE FALN AND THE WTER SOLDIER’S’ SAM AND BUCKYREPRESENTATIONOPNDISNEY+THE NEW CAPTA AMERI FDS LGBTQ+ MARVEL FANS FANTASIZG ABOUT A SAM AND BUCKY ROMANCE TO BE OFFENSIVE. BUT ’S ABOUT FEELG SEEN. SHANNON O’CONNORSOCIAL MEDIA EDORUPDATED JUN. 18, 2021 2:42PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 18, 2021 4:15AM EDT ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER BAD TAKE BY A CELEBRY.WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A TRADNAL FYC APPEARANCE BY ANTHONY MACKIE ON A VARIETY PODST QUICKLY TURNED TO A TRENDG TOPIC ON SOCIAL MEDIA AFTER THE FALN AND THE WTER SOLDIER STAR HAD SOME ODD WORDS TO SAY ABOUT THE TER’S SIRE TO HAVE HIS CHARACTER SAM WILSON BE ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH SEBASTIAN STAN’S BUCKY BARN.HALFWAY THROUGH THE NVERSATN ABOUT THE H DISNEY+ SHOW, REPORTER ADAM B. VARY BRGS UP THE FACT THAT FANS WOULD LIKE TO SEE SAM AND BUCKY BE A UPLE AND HOW THEY’D ALREADY “SHIPPED” BUCKY WH STEVE THE “CAPTA AMERI” MOVI (SAM AND BUCKY QUE LERALLY ENTER TO UPL’ THERAPY THE SHOW, REPLETE WH A “SOUL-GAZG EXERCISE,” AFTER ALL). VARY THEN PRSED MACKIE ON WHAT ’S LIKE TO EXPLORE PLATONIC LOVE BETWEEN TWO MALE CHARACTERS A SUPERHERO SETTG.MACKIE, STEAD OF JT SAYG THAT THE FAN UPLG IS CUTE, HAD QUE A B TO GET OFF HIS CHT. “FOR ME THIS DAY AND AGE, SO MANY THGS ARE TWISTED AND NVOLUTED. THERE’S SO MANY THGS THAT PEOPLE LATCH ON TO WH THEIR OWN VIC TO MAKE THEMSELV RELEVANT AND RATNAL,” HE SAID ON THE PODST. “THE IA OF TWO GUYS BEG IENDS AND LOVG EACH OTHER 2021 IS A PROBLEM BEE OF THE EXPLOATN OF HOMOSEXUALY.” AND NOPE, HE DO NOT STOP THERE. “IT ED TO BE GUYS N BE IENDS, WE N HANG OUT, AND WAS OL,” MACKIE SAID. “YOU WOULD ALWAYS MEET YOUR IENDS AT THE BAR, YOU KNOW. YOU N’T DO THAT ANYMORE, BEE SOMETHG AS PURE AND BETIFUL AS HOMOSEXUALY HAS BEEN EXPLOED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYG TO RATNALIZE THEMSELV.”AND TO SAY ALL THIS DURG PRI MONTH NO LS! THE MA ISSUE HERE SEEMS TO BE THAT MACKIE HAS FAILED TO GRASP THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FAN-SPIRED RELATNSHIPS TO LGBTQ+ PEOPLE.THE AMOUNT OF HETEROSEXUAL REPRENTATN STILL MASSIVELY OUTNUMBERS LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN ON SCREEN. IN GLAAD’S ANNUAL “WHERE WE ARE ON TV” REPORT, WAS FOUND THAT 2020 ONLY 70 CHARACTERS OUT OF 773 SERI REGULARS ON BROADST SCRIPTED PRIMETIME TELEVISN ARE LGBTQ+—A 1.1% CREASE OM 2019.ON STREAMG SERVIC LIKE NETFLIX, HULU AND AMAZON, GLAAD’S REPORT ALSO NOTED A CREASE LGBTQ+ SERI REGULARS. THE MOST SIGNIFINT CREASE LGBTQ+ SERI REGULARS WAS FOUND ON PRIMETIME SCRIPTED BLE (HBO, SHOWTIME, ETC), ACRDG THE REPORT. “IN GLAAD’S ANNUAL “WHERE WE ARE ON TV” REPORT, WAS FOUND THAT 2020 ONLY 70 CHARACTERS OUT OF 773 SERI REGULARS ON BROADST SCRIPTED PRIMETIME TELEVISN ARE LGBTQ+—A 1.1% CREASE OM 2019.” WHILE TV IS FAR MORE CLIVE THAN ED TO BE, THERE IS STILL A CLEAR LACK OF LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN. FOR S, LGBTQ+ CHARACTERS WERE MERELY SILED AS FUNNY SIKICKS OR QUIRKY BT IENDS, AND THEIR RELATNSHIPS WERE RELEGATED TO EHER OFF SCREEN, AT BT, OR NON-EXISTENT, AT WORST. ADVERTISEMENT THEREFORE, TO SEE THEMSELV REPRENTED THEIR FAVORE SHOWS, LGBTQ+ FANS HAVE BEEN FORCED TO GET CREATIVE, EXPRSG THEIR SIRE FOR TWO MA CHARACTERS TO UPLE UP ONLE VIA MEM, FANFIC, AND FAN ART—WHAT THE YOUTHS LL “SHIPPG.”THK OF ANY TV SERI (OR BOY BAND) AND THERE IS MOST LIKELY AN LGBTQ+ SHIP ATTACHED TO . REGA MILLS AND EMMA SWAN OM ONCE UPON A TIME, DEAN AND CASTIEL OM SUPERNATURAL, LENA LUTHOR AND KARA DANVERS OF SUPERGIRL, THE LIST GO ON AND ON.ALL OF THE CHARACTERS ARE CLOSE IENDS (AND SOMETIM ENEMI), BUT LGBTQ+ FANS HAVE TAKEN THAT LOVE AND MANIFTED A WAY THAT ALLOWS THEM TO FEEL SEEN, TO FEEL CLUD. FOR MARVEL PARTICULAR, LGBTQ+ SHIPS ARE EXTREMELY POPULAR—MALY BEE ALL THE MARVEL FILMS TH FAR, THERE HAVE BEEN A GRAND TOTAL OF ZERO MA CHARACTERS THAT ARE OPENLY LGBTQ+, LEADG TO CHARG OF “QUEER CHARACTER ERASURE.” THEREFORE, FANS VENT THEIR OWN RELATNSHIPS WH THE NSTRATS OF THIS SPRAWLG UNIVERSE.SAM AND BUCKY ARE NOT THE ONLY MARVEL CHARACTERS TO BE SHIPPED. AS MENTNED EARLIER, STEVE ROGERS AND BUCKY (AKA CAPTA AMERI AND THE WTER SOLDIER) HAVE BEEN A FAN-FAVORE PAIR SCE CAPTA AMERI: THE FIRST AVENGER, WHILE FANS HAVE ALSO PAIRED BRIE LARSON’S CAPTA MARVEL WH TSA THOMPSON’S VALKYRIE AND LASHANA LYNCH’S MARIA RAMBE. WHEN THE DAILY BEAST ASKED SEBASTIAN STAN ABOUT FANS SHIPPG BUCKY AND CAP, HE CRACKED A SE BEFORE REPLYG, “THAT’S REALLY NICE… HEY, MAN, PEOPLE E TO THE MOVI WH ALL KDS OF THGS.” ADVERTISEMENT WH THE ETERNALS, MARVEL IS POISED TO FALLY TRODUCE S FIRST OPENLY LGBTQ+ CHARACTER AND RELATNSHIP WH BRIAN TYREE HENRY’S PHASTOS AND HIS CHARACTER’S HBAND, PLAYED BY HAAZ SLEIMAN. IT’S ALSO SET TO FEATURE MARVEL’S FIRST ONSCREEN LGBTQ+ KISS, ACRDG TO EW.HOWEVER, JT BEE FANS WILL SOON RECEIVE A CMB OF LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN DON’T MEAN THE FAN UPLGS WILL END ANYTIME SOON. THEREFORE, STARS LIKE MACKIE SHOULD WEAR THE FACT THAT THEY ARE PART OF AN LGBTQ+ FAN UPLG AS A BADGE OF HONOR, BEE IS ONE. IT SHOWS YOU MEAN SOMETHG TO EVERYONE. SHANNON O’CONNOR
• MARVEL REVEALS FIRST GAY ‘CAPTA AMERI’ NEW COMIC SERI
• MARVEL ANNOUNC FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI

MARVEL ARE RELEASG A GAY CAPTA AMERI THIS SUMMER

But nowadays, Bucky's homoerotic yearngs are directed towards another superhero, Sam Wilson, which is all kds of awkward bee Faln basilly had a thg for Cap urse, we're kiddg (sort of), yet even so, 's hard to ignore the gay subtext of Bucky and Sam's new show, The Faln and the Wter Soldier. And then there's also that tiger moment om the first episo which set Gay Twter ablaze. What seems more likely is that Marvel knew exactly what was dog here, and so liberately queer-baed dienc wh this Studs has a long history of playg to homoerotic trop whout ever followg through on them.

AVENGERS DIRECTORS REVEAL EXISTG MARVEL CHARACTER WILL E OUT AS GAY FUTURE MCU FILM

That way, Marvel gets to have s ke and eat too by drawg queer fans while not offendg the homophobic mographic of their dience.

MARVEL TRODUCG FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI THE ICS

Sure, Eternals will soon feature the MCU's first out gay superhero, and Billy Maximoff, one of Wanda's children, is sted to bee a queer hero too one day.

MARVEL TRODUC THE FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI TO THE ICS

However, spe of this, there has never been any nfirmatn that Bucky is MORE: Marvel are releasg a gay Capta Ameri this summerNow, fans are nvced that Marvel have fally nfirmed that Bucky is bisexual The Faln and the Wter Bucky Barn bisexual?

Aaron Fisher will be the first gay Capta Ameri Marvel history. Marvel are officially addg a brand new Capta Ameri to Marvel Comics and he is gog to be gay for the very first fans will likely already know that there are multiple Capta Ameris wh the Marvel universe.

However, alongsi Steve, Bucky Barn and Sam Wilson have both acted as Capta Ameri the ics, as well as other, Marvel are lnchg a new Capta Ameri ic honour of Pri Month and Capta Ameri will be gay MORE: Capta Ameri ass mem are gog viral thanks to this scene Avengers: Endgame. A gay Capta Ameri is g to Marvel this summer. "Aaron Fischer is a "fearls, gay teen" and he will be the first of the "Captas" the seri.

SUPER: THE GAYT ‘STUCKY’ MOMENTS THE ‘CAPTA AMERI: CIVIL WAR’ TRAILER

This gay teenage Cap will “stand for the opprsed, and the fotten.

And gay teenager Aaron Fischer will be the first “next gen” Cap we meet. It’s no cince that Fischer’s but issue is June, which is Pri sign variant ver for The Uned Stat of Capta Ameri by Jan ComicsIn a statement, Bazaldua said “I really enjoyed signg him, and 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. However, when he was asked whether the character was the first gay character the MCU, he add: “Y, openly gay.

”Rso ntued: “There’ve been suatns about other characters’ sexualy, but this is the first openly gay character.

CAPTA AMERI IS STRAIGHT, BUT ICS HAVE MANY GAY CHARACTERS

“There is a gay character g up one of their films, and I thk [Marvel print] Kev [Feige] will make that announcement, I’m sure pretty soon. Capta Ameri as seen the animated adventure Marvel's Avengers: Ultron Revolutn (Marvel/Walt Disney Televisn via Getty Imag)A new Marvel ic will troduce the first LGBTQ-intifyg rnatn of Capta Uned Stat of Capta Ameri miseri follows Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, Bucky Barn and John Walker as they go search of Cap's missg shield, enunterg people who've been spired by the Marvel superhero along the person they meet is Aaron Fischer, an openly gay character who lls himself the Capta Ameri of the Railways, and protects young naways and the more: Chris Evans pledg shield to dog attack boyIssue 1 will go on sale on 2 June, time for Pri Month, and s wrer Aaron Tjillo hop the character will be a shg light for the LGBTQ+ muny.

Jan Bazaldua, the artist rponsible for his look, paid tribute to Marvel for the opportuny to make more: Chris Evans turned down Capta Ameri many tim"I really enjoyed signg him, and 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, " Bazaldua Evans as Steve Rogers Capta Ameri: The First Avenger. Meet Aaron Fischer, the openly gay "Capta Ameri of the Railways.

A NEW, GAY CAPTA AMERI N’T SAVE UNED STAT OF CAPTA AMERI #1

Aaron, who is openly gay, was created by wrer Aaron Tjillo and artist Jan Bazaldua, who both worked on the seri' first issue that will troduce the character.

IS CAPTA AMERI GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?

"I really enjoyed signg him, and 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.

Let's review the gayt Stucky moments (that's Steve/Bucky) the Civil War trailer. THIS SHOULDER PAT:There is nothg herently gay about one man touchg another a faiar way, of urse, and 's very unheathy to ame all male timacy as gay. But the solutn is to stop suggtg that beg gay is bad, and that beg perceived as gay as bad.

ANTHONY MACKIE SHOULD KNOW WHY LGBTQ+ FANS SHIP ‘THE FALN AND THE WTER SOLDIER’S’ SAM AND BUCKYREPRESENTATIONOPNDISNEY+THE NEW CAPTA AMERI FDS LGBTQ+ MARVEL FANS FANTASIZG ABOUT A SAM AND BUCKY ROMANCE TO BE OFFENSIVE. BUT ’S ABOUT FEELG SEEN. SHANNON O’CONNORSOCIAL MEDIA EDORUPDATED JUN. 18, 2021 2:42PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 18, 2021 4:15AM EDT ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER BAD TAKE BY A CELEBRY.WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A TRADNAL FYC APPEARANCE BY ANTHONY MACKIE ON A VARIETY PODST QUICKLY TURNED TO A TRENDG TOPIC ON SOCIAL MEDIA AFTER THE FALN AND THE WTER SOLDIER STAR HAD SOME ODD WORDS TO SAY ABOUT THE TER’S SIRE TO HAVE HIS CHARACTER SAM WILSON BE ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH SEBASTIAN STAN’S BUCKY BARN.HALFWAY THROUGH THE NVERSATN ABOUT THE H DISNEY+ SHOW, REPORTER ADAM B. VARY BRGS UP THE FACT THAT FANS WOULD LIKE TO SEE SAM AND BUCKY BE A UPLE AND HOW THEY’D ALREADY “SHIPPED” BUCKY WH STEVE THE “CAPTA AMERI” MOVI (SAM AND BUCKY QUE LERALLY ENTER TO UPL’ THERAPY THE SHOW, REPLETE WH A “SOUL-GAZG EXERCISE,” AFTER ALL). VARY THEN PRSED MACKIE ON WHAT ’S LIKE TO EXPLORE PLATONIC LOVE BETWEEN TWO MALE CHARACTERS A SUPERHERO SETTG.MACKIE, STEAD OF JT SAYG THAT THE FAN UPLG IS CUTE, HAD QUE A B TO GET OFF HIS CHT. “FOR ME THIS DAY AND AGE, SO MANY THGS ARE TWISTED AND NVOLUTED. THERE’S SO MANY THGS THAT PEOPLE LATCH ON TO WH THEIR OWN VIC TO MAKE THEMSELV RELEVANT AND RATNAL,” HE SAID ON THE PODST. “THE IA OF TWO GUYS BEG IENDS AND LOVG EACH OTHER 2021 IS A PROBLEM BEE OF THE EXPLOATN OF HOMOSEXUALY.” AND NOPE, HE DO NOT STOP THERE. “IT ED TO BE GUYS N BE IENDS, WE N HANG OUT, AND WAS OL,” MACKIE SAID. “YOU WOULD ALWAYS MEET YOUR IENDS AT THE BAR, YOU KNOW. YOU N’T DO THAT ANYMORE, BEE SOMETHG AS PURE AND BETIFUL AS HOMOSEXUALY HAS BEEN EXPLOED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYG TO RATNALIZE THEMSELV.”AND TO SAY ALL THIS DURG PRI MONTH NO LS! THE MA ISSUE HERE SEEMS TO BE THAT MACKIE HAS FAILED TO GRASP THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FAN-SPIRED RELATNSHIPS TO LGBTQ+ PEOPLE.THE AMOUNT OF HETEROSEXUAL REPRENTATN STILL MASSIVELY OUTNUMBERS LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN ON SCREEN. IN GLAAD’S ANNUAL “WHERE WE ARE ON TV” REPORT, WAS FOUND THAT 2020 ONLY 70 CHARACTERS OUT OF 773 SERI REGULARS ON BROADST SCRIPTED PRIMETIME TELEVISN ARE LGBTQ+—A 1.1% CREASE OM 2019.ON STREAMG SERVIC LIKE NETFLIX, HULU AND AMAZON, GLAAD’S REPORT ALSO NOTED A CREASE LGBTQ+ SERI REGULARS. THE MOST SIGNIFINT CREASE LGBTQ+ SERI REGULARS WAS FOUND ON PRIMETIME SCRIPTED BLE (HBO, SHOWTIME, ETC), ACRDG THE REPORT. “IN GLAAD’S ANNUAL “WHERE WE ARE ON TV” REPORT, WAS FOUND THAT 2020 ONLY 70 CHARACTERS OUT OF 773 SERI REGULARS ON BROADST SCRIPTED PRIMETIME TELEVISN ARE LGBTQ+—A 1.1% CREASE OM 2019.” WHILE TV IS FAR MORE CLIVE THAN ED TO BE, THERE IS STILL A CLEAR LACK OF LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN. FOR S, LGBTQ+ CHARACTERS WERE MERELY SILED AS FUNNY SIKICKS OR QUIRKY BT IENDS, AND THEIR RELATNSHIPS WERE RELEGATED TO EHER OFF SCREEN, AT BT, OR NON-EXISTENT, AT WORST. ADVERTISEMENT THEREFORE, TO SEE THEMSELV REPRENTED THEIR FAVORE SHOWS, LGBTQ+ FANS HAVE BEEN FORCED TO GET CREATIVE, EXPRSG THEIR SIRE FOR TWO MA CHARACTERS TO UPLE UP ONLE VIA MEM, FANFIC, AND FAN ART—WHAT THE YOUTHS LL “SHIPPG.”THK OF ANY TV SERI (OR BOY BAND) AND THERE IS MOST LIKELY AN LGBTQ+ SHIP ATTACHED TO . REGA MILLS AND EMMA SWAN OM ONCE UPON A TIME, DEAN AND CASTIEL OM SUPERNATURAL, LENA LUTHOR AND KARA DANVERS OF SUPERGIRL, THE LIST GO ON AND ON.ALL OF THE CHARACTERS ARE CLOSE IENDS (AND SOMETIM ENEMI), BUT LGBTQ+ FANS HAVE TAKEN THAT LOVE AND MANIFTED A WAY THAT ALLOWS THEM TO FEEL SEEN, TO FEEL CLUD. FOR MARVEL PARTICULAR, LGBTQ+ SHIPS ARE EXTREMELY POPULAR—MALY BEE ALL THE MARVEL FILMS TH FAR, THERE HAVE BEEN A GRAND TOTAL OF ZERO MA CHARACTERS THAT ARE OPENLY LGBTQ+, LEADG TO CHARG OF “QUEER CHARACTER ERASURE.” THEREFORE, FANS VENT THEIR OWN RELATNSHIPS WH THE NSTRATS OF THIS SPRAWLG UNIVERSE.SAM AND BUCKY ARE NOT THE ONLY MARVEL CHARACTERS TO BE SHIPPED. AS MENTNED EARLIER, STEVE ROGERS AND BUCKY (AKA CAPTA AMERI AND THE WTER SOLDIER) HAVE BEEN A FAN-FAVORE PAIR SCE CAPTA AMERI: THE FIRST AVENGER, WHILE FANS HAVE ALSO PAIRED BRIE LARSON’S CAPTA MARVEL WH TSA THOMPSON’S VALKYRIE AND LASHANA LYNCH’S MARIA RAMBE. WHEN THE DAILY BEAST ASKED SEBASTIAN STAN ABOUT FANS SHIPPG BUCKY AND CAP, HE CRACKED A SE BEFORE REPLYG, “THAT’S REALLY NICE… HEY, MAN, PEOPLE E TO THE MOVI WH ALL KDS OF THGS.” ADVERTISEMENT WH THE ETERNALS, MARVEL IS POISED TO FALLY TRODUCE S FIRST OPENLY LGBTQ+ CHARACTER AND RELATNSHIP WH BRIAN TYREE HENRY’S PHASTOS AND HIS CHARACTER’S HBAND, PLAYED BY HAAZ SLEIMAN. IT’S ALSO SET TO FEATURE MARVEL’S FIRST ONSCREEN LGBTQ+ KISS, ACRDG TO EW.HOWEVER, JT BEE FANS WILL SOON RECEIVE A CMB OF LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN DON’T MEAN THE FAN UPLGS WILL END ANYTIME SOON. THEREFORE, STARS LIKE MACKIE SHOULD WEAR THE FACT THAT THEY ARE PART OF AN LGBTQ+ FAN UPLG AS A BADGE OF HONOR, BEE IS ONE. IT SHOWS YOU MEAN SOMETHG TO EVERYONE. SHANNON O’CONNOR

Some male timacy is gay! This is a movie about Steve's love for, maybe 's not love between two gay men.

MARVEL REVEALS FIRST GAY ‘CAPTA AMERI’ NEW COMIC SERI

It's not jt that the text isn't gog to liver a gay romance this one movie; 's that the text never livers this type of movie. I'm not beg glib when I ll the screenshots the gayt moments the trailer.

This movie looks about as gay as 's allowed to be. One day we'll get a movie like that's actually gay enough. Speakg to GQ, Stan — who plays Capta Ameri’s btie Bucky — discsed his feelgs about the Twter mpaign #GiveCaptaAmeriABoyiend, which begs Marvel to sudnly make the superhero recklsly gay and even startg datg his preferred partner crime.

Related: Comics News: Gay Hero Swoop Into Teen Tans And Capta Ameri Sp-Off Seri.

MARVEL ANNOUNC FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI

So, ’s an tense relatnship, but not necsarily a gay one, alright? That’s not to say Rso thks there’s anythg wrong wh gangs of mclebound homosexual superhero filtratg the Marvel universe and havg really hot gay sex wh everybody.

In fact, he thks ’s likely there will be some gay superhero mastream pictur down the le. And while we agree ’s sential for people who make mass-appeal movi to go ahead and make mass-appeal movi, we don’t thk we’re gog to see a major Marvel superhero e out as gay a Hollywood picture anytime soon. In A Queer History of the Uned Stat, Michael Bronski explas how the disciple of sexology the 1880s led to “the scientific disvery of ‘homosexualy, ’” creatg the opportuny for “open discsn about the subject.