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“We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get… Oh, We’re Going” [Opinion]
I hold Marvel's gay characters in special affection. I love them because they're Marvel characters -- flawed, freaky, forever young. I love them because they're gay characters; they stay and love and dread and lust like I do. That's an aspect of fiction that I never got to like when I was a kid.
But, reader; I agonize. These characters are currently enjoying a moment in the spotlight, but what if it's only a passing beat? What if these characters -- and their lesbian and multi-attracted cohort -- only be as a temporary corrective to the medium's, the genre's and the publisher's past shortcomings? What if the desire to produce that correction passes, and the gay characters fade away?
What if it's just a phase?
It sounds alarmist, but when it comes to positive representation, LGBT audiences are used to expecting the worst only to learn that we were being optimistic.
As recently as 2006 it was Marvel reported policy to put an "explicit content" label on the cover of a book if it starred a male lover character. The policy wasn't esp
While TV shows contain a long way to go when it comes to LGBTQ+ representation, comic books have indeed given people around the world some impressive characters that fall on various places of the rainbow. If you want to scan or get to know more about the comics that feature such characters, then you acquire come to the right place, my friend. First up we have Part I of the queer characters from Marvel Earth 616.
Wiccan
His real name is William “Billy” Kaplan. He made his first appearance in Young Avengers #1 (a series that would go on to be one of the most queer-inclusive comic books ever!). I fell in love with Billy the moment I started reading Young Avengers. He’s openly gay, but his sexuality isn’t his only defining feature. Not only that, he’s cosmically powerful and I’m excited to notice how his powers evolve as he grows up. Knowing that Marvel handed the power to change reality to a gay kid is amazing!
He’s engaged to another YA member, Hulkling (Teddy), and their bond is one of the most significant aspects of the team. While Marvel hasn’t given Young Avengers a lasting monthly solo-series, the recent run has been all kinds of awesome.
Hulkling
Exclusive: Marvel to launch new X-Factor series
But it’s mostly about a new team of Krakoan operatives, comprised of the speedy Northstar, one of Marvel’s earliest openly queer characters; the all-seeing Eye Boy; the telepathic Rachel Grey; the polymath Prodigy; the magnetic Polaris; and Daken, Wolverine’s disaster son. They are X-Factor, and their job is to investigate and approve mutant deaths — but not to avenge them.
That’s because the Five resurrect a mutant by creating a fresh body for them, and telepathically implanting a backup of their mind and personality. In the new series, X-Factor will hunt down missing mutants to confirm their deaths, so that the Five never operate the risk of creating a duplicate of a living mutant — because that’s a large no no.
Leah Williams and David Baldeón, fresh off of Gwenpool Strikes Help, will craft the series, due this spring. And while it was initially pitched as a missing persons mystery book, Williams jumped at the chance to dive deeper into the Five after noticing how interested fans were in how the resurrection process would change mutant culture.
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“We’d already planned on
The Marvel universe is crafted to be reflective of the real world, partly to make current storylines seem relevant, and partly because having President Obama give orders to the spandex set is an amazing way to pick headlines.
Whatever the reasoning, it was only a matter of time before the Marvel universe expanded to include gay characters.
As a cliffhanger in peripheral X-Men title X-Factor, two formerly lesser-known mutant characters finally put gay rumours to rest in Marvel’s first on-panel kiss between two major male characters.
“Honestly,” says X-Factor editor Jody Leheup, “we knew this was going to be a cool moment for the fans, but it hadn’t really occurred to us that it would be so essential to gay — and heterosexual — comic fans as a whole.”
Marvel favourite Peter David wrote the storyline. He has a reputation for crafting realistic, scene-stealing characters whose motivations ring true.
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“There was absolutely no trouble getting
Peter David started writing stories for Marvel in 1985. He was responsible for a historic (and some would say the all-time best) run of the “Incredible Hulk,” from 1985-1997. He helped create the Thunderbolts. And he wrote a ton of X-Men, mostly through the “X-Factor” series, first in the 1990s, and again in 2006. Peter David is a comic book titan, and one of the first writers whose label I knew when I was a kid reading “Amazing Spider-Man” and “X-Men.”
In 2016, Peter David attended a panel on LGBTQ characters in “X-Men.” The panel was derailed when David was asked a question by a Romani activist, which sent David into a furious racist rant. Six days later, he apologized. But I was in the room for that panel, and the whole thing was deeply disturbing. I haven’t read a comic by Peter David since. Not as an active establish of protest, but his books subconsciously remind me of an uncomfortable experience.
Well, it’s time for the Multiversity Summer Comics Binge, and I have chosen to return to my all time favorite Peter David comic. The colossal “X-Factor” run that lasted for 120 issues, released between 2005 and 2013. The series follows Multiple Man and a team of mutant B-