Eternals' Haaz Sleiman on Beg Arab and Openly Gay the MCU - Variety

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• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• ‘ETERNALS’ ACTOR HAAZ SLEIMAN ON BEG ARAB AND OPENLY GAY THE MCU, THE FILM’S ‘IGNORANT’ BAN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRI (EXCLUSIVE)

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

Jam Gunn, who directed the Guardians of the Galaxy films, elud to gay characters wh the MCU the past. “You know, somebody asked me will there be any gay characters Marvel movi, and what I meant was there’s a lot of characters the MCU and very few of them have we lved to what their sexuali are — whether ’s gay or straight or bisexual, ” Gunn said. "So, I image there are probably gay characters the Marvel Universe, you know.

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‘ETERNALS’ ACTOR HAAZ SLEIMAN ON BEG ARAB AND OPENLY GAY THE MCU, THE FILM’S ‘IGNORANT’ BAN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRI (EXCLUSIVE)

Actor Haaz Sleiman is an out gay man himself, and was born the Uned Arab Emirat. It wasn’t until 2021 that an MCU film featured an openly gay superhero, Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry). Troduced the MCU’s first openly gay character, while Jsi Jon featured the MCU’s first openly lbian character.

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