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Contents:
- IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
- IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? OR NEHER?
IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
The first explicly gay superhero Marvel Comics was North Star, a mutant and X-Men off-shoot om Alpha Flight #7 2011. Sce then, one of the origal X-Men, Iceman/Bobby Drake, was revealed to be gay last year’s Iceman seri. The scene was subversive to the mastream, and enarg to many young and alienated LGBTQ geeks, bee was an obv metaphor for gay pri—and the poison of homophobia—durg the height of the Bh Years when gay bashg and homophobia went very mastream.
Bh would n a succsful reelectn mpaign that, among other thgs, falsely promised to create a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage. While CW’s superhero televisn shows have actually been rryg the flag recent years by makg a number of ma characters gay, lbian, and bi on Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, Arrow, and Supergirl, those seri are still targeted to a relatively small, young, and socially liberal (read: likemd) dience the U. But Cha, and s ernment’s censors, are notorly behd on gay rights.
Gay relatnships were a punishable offense until 1997 the People’s Republic, and those who participated them were still rerd as sufferg om a “mental disorr” until 2001. To this day, movi wh explicly gay relatnships are banned Cha, as well as other smaller markets. Is Deadpool gay, bisexual, straight, or somethg else that is ncrete Marvel non?
IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? OR NEHER?
Their homoerotic iendship has been allud to many tim the Marvel Universe, and the huge fan culture surroundg the two characters led to their own spoff ic seri beg released 2016 lled "Spir-Man/Deadpool" (a reference to the Spiypool slash ship).