Marvel Comics Hosts First Gay Weddg ‘Astonishg X-Men’ – Rollg Stone

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Weddg bells will rg this summer for Marvel Comics' first openly gay hero, super speedster Northstar, and his longtime boyiend.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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. Comics scholar Ramzi Fawaz not that Claremont’s X-Men “articulated mutatn to the radil criqu of inty promulgated by the cultur of women’s and gay liberatn.

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