Weddg bells will rg this summer for Marvel Comics' first openly gay hero, super speedster Northstar, and his longtime boyiend.
Contents:
- MARVEL COMICS HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG ‘ASTONISHG X-MEN’
- <I>ASTONISHG X-MEN</I> CREATORS DISH ON MARVEL'S HISTORIC GAY WEDDG
- MARVEL COMICS PLANS WEDDG FOR GAY HERO NORTHSTAR
MARVEL COMICS HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG ‘ASTONISHG X-MEN’
Back 1992, Marvel Comics ma headl by revealg that Northstar, a Canadian superhero associated wh Alpha Flight and the X-Men, was gay.
“When gay marriage beme legal New York State, raised obv qutns sce most of our hero ri New York State.
<I>ASTONISHG X-MEN</I> CREATORS DISH ON MARVEL'S HISTORIC GAY WEDDG
Northstar is the first openly gay character ics and he’s been a longterm relatnship wh his partner Kyle so the big qutn was – how would this change his relatnship?, ” says Marvel Comics edor--chief Axel Alonso.
“Here are two people, tryg to live their liv – mutant and gay, black and gay – empowered their own ways, but also ge-dwellers, ” says Liu. The tensns will rm Liu’s Astonishg X-Men stori gog forward, but Alonso says the uple will also have to nont homophobia om Northstar’s teammat.
MARVEL COMICS PLANS WEDDG FOR GAY HERO NORTHSTAR
Dpe Marvel’s reputatn as a mp phenomenon and as a hotbed for liberal — even subversive — disurse, Stan Lee’s ics publishg juggernt would not feature a nonilly gay character until some 30 years after the but of The Fantastic Four.
The 1954 Comics Co Authory — a censorship bure that policed ics ntent — explicly banned “sex perversn or any ference to same, ” which ics scholar Hilary Chute not is “a clear reference to homosexualy. Th, Marvel Comics was, om the outset, actually prohibed om pictg gay characters.
It wasn’t until 1992 — three years after a major revisn to the Comics Co officially opened the door to pictns of LGBTQ+ characters — that Marvel had their first openly gay superhero. In Alpha Flight #106 wrten by Stt Lobl, the character Northstar (alias Olympic ski champn Jean-Pl Bebier) clared: “I am gay.