Stan Lee: Spir-Man should never be gay | PkNews

Contents:

• TOM HOLLAND OPEN TO GAY ‘SPIR-MAN,’ AGRE MCU NEEDS MORE THAN JT ‘STRAIGHT WHE GUYS’
• IS SPIR-MAN GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT? ALL HIS RELATNSHIPS EXPLAED
• PETER PARKER CAN’T BE BLACK OR GAY? WHAT MARVEL’S ‘SPIR-MAN’ RTRICTNS REALLY MEAN
• MARVEL REPORTEDLY PLANS TO MAKE THE MCU’S NEXT SPIR-MAN GAY
• STAN LEE: SPIR-MAN SHOULD NEVER BE GAY

TOM HOLLAND OPEN TO GAY ‘SPIR-MAN,’ AGRE MCU NEEDS MORE THAN JT ‘STRAIGHT WHE GUYS’

Will Peter Parker e out as gay the Marvel Cematic Universe? In a new terview wh The Sunday Tim, Holland said he’d be open to his Marvel superhero g out as gay and agreed wh the overwhelmg sentiment that the Marvel Cematic Universe needs to start gettg more clive on the LGBTQ ont as soon as possible.

“Yeah, of urse, ” Holland answered when asked if he’d be okay wh Spir-Man/Peter Parker beg gay. Marvel Studs print Kev Feige has already gone on rerd sayg the next phase of Marvel films will clu the MCU’s first openly gay character. The MCU got a b of blowback earlier this year over the release of “Avengers: Endgame, ” which clud a rather nsequential moment featurg an openly gay character.

One persistent mor poss that the first openly gay star character the MCU will be troduced “The Eternals, ” the upg tentpole om filmmaker Chloe Zhao set to star Richard Madn, Angela Jolie, and Kumail Nanjiani. Both Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland see no problem wh makg Spir-Man gay or bisexual. In the promotnal tour for Spir-Man: Far From Home, Holland exprsed open tert playg a gay Spir-Man.

IS SPIR-MAN GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT? ALL HIS RELATNSHIPS EXPLAED

Beyond homophobia, is there any good reason why Spir-Man n't be any sexual orientatn other than straight?

Iceman of the X-Men, as turned out, was gay for his entire life, but had so eply supprsed his orientatn that no one realized . But that didn't change the fact that he was actually gay. So even if Peter Parker turned out to be gay or bisexual this revelatn would retroactively alter his history, but not so radilly that he'd been unregnizable.

It was jt more a philosophil qutn, and what I believe about Spir-Man is that he do stand for everybody: black, whe, Che, Malaysian, gay, straight, lbian, bisexual, transgenr. So, we ask once more: Why n't Spir-Man be gay or bisexual? “spirman is gay?

PETER PARKER CAN’T BE BLACK OR GAY? WHAT MARVEL’S ‘SPIR-MAN’ RTRICTNS REALLY MEAN

Related: Marvel Director Shoots Down Chris Pratt “Homophobic” Church Rumors. Spir-Man -creator Stan Lee has rpond to actor Andrew Garfield's recent what-if scenar which Peter Parker uld be gay or bisexual, jokg, "I figure one sex is enough for anybody. … So why n’t he be gay?

"It was jt more a philosophil qutn, and what I believe about Spir-Man is that he do stand for everybody: black, whe, Che, Malaysian, gay, straight, lbian, bisexual, transgenr. This ually begs the qutn, is Spir-Man gay, bisexual, or straight? The Bottom Le: Is Spir-Man gay, bisexual, or straight?

“Spir-Man Can’t Be Gay or Black, ” read a Gawker headle. (Vio: Rters)But the leaked e-mails make clear that Spir-Man n, fact, be black or Hispanic or gay — ’s jt that Peter Parker n’ if to prove the pot, Marvel announced the same day that a half-black, half-Lato character named Mil Moral would take over as Spir-Man, at least s troduced Moral back 2011 s “ultimate universe” ( other words, s alternate, alternate universe) sp-off, which Peter Parker had died and Moral took over as Spir-Man.

MARVEL REPORTEDLY PLANS TO MAKE THE MCU’S NEXT SPIR-MAN GAY

”On the other hand, at tim his ments seem to suggt that Spir-Man himself should be straight and whe and that if we want black, Lato or gay superhero, we should stick to the on we already have or vent new on. “I thk the world has a place for gay superhero, certaly, ” he said. I have no problem wh creatg new, homosexual superhero.

”“It has nothg to do wh beg anti-gay, or anti-black, or anti-Lato, or anythg like that, ” Lee said. ”After 53 years as Spir-Man’s alter ego, Peter Parker is pretty much synonymo wh the superhero (at least to -the-know ic rears or movie watchers, maybe not to his enemi) Mil Moral the new Spir-Man on the page may be progrs, but puttg a black (or Lato, or gay) Peter Parker on the silver screen would be somethg tly marvelo. And one thg those fans love to do more than almost anythg is image their favore Avengers havg gay sex.

STAN LEE: SPIR-MAN SHOULD NEVER BE GAY

Capta Ameri and the Wter Soldier have a iendship that dat back to pre-WWII, one chronicled Capta Ameri: The First Avenger and expand the gayt Marvel movie (bis Endgame), Capta Ameri: The Wter Soldier, which is lerally a movie about Steve Rogers tryg to get his brawashed ex-boyiend back. Tense scene between the two inic characters the recently-released Cosmic Ghost Rir Dtroys Marvel History #2 ic, we totally see don't have much ntext (sce we haven't read the ic yet), but what n only be scribed as a super homoerotic beach stand-off, brief-wearg Peter Parker (who has taken off his Spiy su and is drippg wet for some reason) yells, "You want me?

)So will there be more homoerotic scen between Spir-Man and Venom the future? For Spir-Man, Marvel termed that he mt be male and “not a homosexual, ” wh the tertg addn that the latter would be validated if “Marvel has portrayed that character as a homosexual. Even the rtrictn that’s gaed the most attentn — “not a homosexual” — has the get-out clse that ’s okay if Marvel has done the ics first.

A gay Spir-Man isn’t a problem, as long as Marvel gets to do the ics (and, as a rult, reaps the publicy rewards attached) first.