15 Openly Gay Marvel Characters That Might Be Comg To The MCU

Contents:

• "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
• MARVEL ANNOUNC FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI
• MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY
• MARVEL BOSS RPONDS TO BACKLASH OVER GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME: WHO IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN THE MCU?

"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. K is gay.

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.

MARVEL ANNOUNC FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI

And 2015, Iceman, one of the origal X-Men created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby back 1963, me out as gay. Wai nfirmed that K is gay an Instagram Live, but said he won't get a romantic tert anytime soon as he was once "eply love and lost that love along the le" and "don't feel brave enough to fd love aga.

MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR

Wicn (who is nonilly gay) and Speed (who is nonilly bisexual) are Wanda and Visn's tw sons who grow up to bee queer members of the superhero group Young Avengers. The first gay MCU character to have an onscreen kiss didn't appear until Eternals 2021, thirteen years after Iron Man kicked off the MCU. His sexualy is never nfirmed, but as he's played by Firstman, wears one earrg, and referenc Mulan and The Devil Wears Prada, we're pretty sure he's gay.

While his sexualy is never spoken about the seri, he's based on a ic book character who was also portrayed as gay. A clearly gay character has fally arrived the Marvel universe -- although many sual viewers may miss the historic Rso, who directed Avengers: Endgame wh his brother Anthony Rso, portrays a gay man the blockbter, reports Deadle.

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

"It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them. Several mor characters, like Thor: Ragnarok's Valkyrie (Tsa Thompson) and Black Panther's Ayo (Florence Kasumba) and Okoye (Danai Gurira), were reportedly -gayed through leted scen.

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

Anthony Rso told Deadle that the cln of the gay character reprented a step toward clivy that reflected the real world. "Marvel has yet to troduce a clearly LGBTQ superhero -- although the stud is reportedly searchg for a gay actor to portray one.

A Marvel executive, Victoria Alonso, told Variety at the Capta Marvel premiere that "the world is ready" for a gay superhero.

The Marvel Cematic Universe (MCU) was fairly slow troducg LGBTQ+ characters —though seeg as even the most chaste reprentatns of queer love get the films banned some untri, you n see why they would be Strange and The Multiverse of Madns actually breaks the rerd for the most lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and/or queer characters an MCU property wh three. However, seeg as two of them do not talk, and one never mentns their sexualy out loud, clearly there is still some work to be done when to LGBTQ+ MCU is of urse fairly sexls general, but any mentns of queer sexuali have tend to be very brief, the better to allow Disney to easily cut out the scen more homophobic markets.

MARVEL BOSS RPONDS TO BACKLASH OVER GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER

"Grievg man"Avengers: Endgame ma the mistake of tmpetg that had the MCU's first gay character before the film me out.

Phastos is also the anchise's first out gay superhero, and the pair share the anchise's first gay kiss (and one of the few kiss general the MCU) his partner Ben do not get much screen time, his stg mak a bold statement. Actor Haaz Sleiman is an out gay man himself, and was born the Uned Arab Emirat.

‘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: WHO IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN THE MCU?

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.