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15 Best LGBTQ+ Marvel Characters

Summary

LGBTQ+ superheroes, like Mystique and Valkyrie, bring diversity to Marvel Comics and inspire readers and viewers for representation.
Characters like Deadpool and Loki show fluid sexuality, offering different perspectives on Diverse representation in the Marvel universe.
Young Avengers couples like Hulkling and Wiccan, Speed, and Kate Bishop provide positive Homosexual representation in the comics and possibly in future MCU adaptations.

Marvel Comics has introduced the nature to a plethora of superheroes and villain characters that present a range of diversity for readers and viewers. This includes several characters that illustrate the LGBTQ+ community. While some haven't made it to the Marvel Cinematic Universe yet, there is still plenty of voice in the comics.

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Marvel’s first gay superhero is an amalgamation of straight assumptions. Northstar was introduced in as the first gay personality in the superhero genre. Unfortunately, the Comics Code Rule censored scripts that were explicit on the matter of his sexuality. For years writers employed subtext to quit hints for their audience to choose up.

Besides men coming in and out of his residence, or lingering shirtless in the background of panels, Northstar was coded through the unique perspective of how direct men typically view gay men. As Ben Bolling points out, he was portrayed as vain, sarcastic, and dangerous, but more interestingly, he was given a backstory packed of poverty and abandonment. While this is a prevalent background in action/adventure drama, it parallels tightly with sociological work on the queer community in the late &#;70s. Material like the documentary Paris is Burning exists as a reminder that the queer group was viewed as an economically suppressed class for decades.

In the &#;80s Northstar&#;s creator left his flagship and the subsequent writer, Bill Mantlo, though

Northstar is often called the first gay superhero, although he wasn’t allowed to come out until 13 years after his debut. But he was almost certainly the first mainstream superhero deliberately (albeit subtextually) depicted as gender non-conforming, he was Marvel’s first queer superhero, and his coming out in was a landmark event, as was his eventual wedding to his husband, Kyle, 20 years later.

I will begin with this disclaimer: I am not going to do justice to this subject in the vacuum I have here. Scholarly papers have been written about Northstar’s history and significance; there are decades of blog posts, letter columns, zines, and newspaper articles, not to mention the comics themselves. This profile could very well be a book — and I hope someone writes it someday so I can read it. But in the meantime, here’s the condensed version:

Jean-Paul Beaubier, AKA Northstar, was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, and he first appeared in X-Men # (April ) as a member of the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight, along with his twin sister Jeanne-Marie Beaubier (Aurora). He didn’t really get

A gay superhero would finally give LGBTQ kids the representation they need — so why are we still waiting?

Marvel showed promise to giving full onscreen representation to an often underrepresented group with "Black Panther." Ryan Coogler's feature was the first moment many children of dye around the world saw themselves in the main characters on the huge screen.

"Black Panther" was a celebration of Black tradition in one of the biggest, most talked-about movies of the year. And, while others can narrate how groundbreaking and revolutionary "Black Panther" was far better than I can, it's not hard to see the positive impact the movie had in terms of representation.

It's hour that Feige and the MCU embraced the LGBTQ community in the equal way.

The story so far

So far, the MCU has had one openly LGBT character in the entirety of its 23 films. That was "Avengers: Endgame" director Joe Russo himself making a cameo in "Endgame." Russo played a man in Steve Rodgers' support group post-snap who casually mentioned that he went on a dine with a guy.

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