In the early '80s, Capta Ameri's ic book troduced a gay bt iend who would have a major fluence on the character's films.
Contents:
- STEVE ROGERS WILL MEET THE FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI ON HIS UPG ROAD TRIP
- CAPTA AMERI MAY NEVER HAVE A BOYIEND, BUT HE’S LONG HAD A GAY BT FRIEND
STEVE ROGERS WILL MEET THE FIRST GAY CAPTA AMERI ON HIS UPG ROAD TRIP
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. ” Unfortunately, Bronski ntu, this new language “immediately led to a clear articulatn of negative stereotyp about homosexuals.
”Later, the Amerin ary tried to block gay men and women om enlistg durg World War II by classifyg queerns as a psychiatric disorr. Allan Bébé explas Comg Out Unr Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women World War II that “the reason for excludg [gay men] as psychopaths was that… they were nsired to be irrponsible troublemakers who were unable to ntrol their sir or learn om their mistak and th threatened other men. ” Or, as Bronski puts , “A direct lk was beg ma between homosexual behavr and a threat to natnal secury.
MarvelIn the preface to Comg Out Unr Fire, Bébé reflects on what impact his rearch and wrg had on him:Begun as the story of how gay Amerins had served their untry, this book evolved to a history of how the ary’s mobilizatn for war ma soldiers nont homosexualy their personal liv and changed the ways that homosexualy f to Amerin stutns. The first new Capta Steve will meet is Aaron Fischer, the first gay Capta announced last week an upg limed ic seri set to lnch this June lled The Uned Stat of Capta Ameri. "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.
CAPTA AMERI MAY NEVER HAVE A BOYIEND, BUT HE’S LONG HAD A GAY BT FRIEND
What most people don’t know about the ic books is that Capta Ameri had a longstandg, albe platonic, relatnship wh an openly gay iend sce the early 1980’s. When the Reagan admistratn was publicly ridiculg “the gay plague, ” Capta Ameri was by nnectg wh his childhood iend, protector, big brother figure, and one of Marvel’s first openly gay characters — Arnie Roth. Beg openly gay, Jewish, and one of Steve’s te iends mak Arnie the perfect target for Baron Zemo, a former Nazi, and his partner, the sadistic Mother Night.
In the song, he nigrat himself for beg gay and wonrs if the reason Cap actually lik him is bee Cap is, as he says, “one of .
This is ually the kd of fan speculatn people balk at, but now we know that the orig of the cematic Bucky borrows om a character who was gay, possibly showed feelgs for Cap, and qutned him about his own sexualy.