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6 LGBTQ Superheroes Who Can (And Should) Star in Their Own Movie
The Black Panther movie in February will mark the first major superhero release starring a dark superhero. And Wonder Woman this past Spring was the first major superhero release starring a female superhero. Both of these are and were late in coming for minority representation, considering the current superhero boom is nearly years-old at this gesture. But progress is being made, and that&#;s going to contain to be good enough.
I am eagerly looking forward to the first major superhero release with an LGBTQ hero in the lead role. But the noun is&#;which superhero is that even going to be?
Could it be these two guys? I don&#;t think so
There simply aren&#;t that many prominent LGBTQ superheroes at either Marvel or DC. And those that are prominent are in no condition to hold a feature film made about them as a solo superhero. Feel free to disagree with me, but as awesome as Batwoman is, there&#;s no way a Warner Bros. studio executive is going to make a Batwoman movie when they could just make another
Marvel’s first gay superhero is an amalgamation of straight assumptions. Northstar was introduced in as the first gay character in the superhero genre. Unfortunately, the Comics Code Authority censored scripts that were explicit on the matter of his sexuality. For years writers employed subtext to verb hints for their audience to pick 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 straight men typically view gay men. As Ben Bolling points out, he was portrayed as vain, sarcastic, and reckless, but more interestingly, he was given a backstory adj of poverty and abandonment. While this is a common 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 community 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
Superhero Spotlight: LGBT History of Superheroes and Supervillains
In celebration of LGBT History Month here in the U.K, I thought I would contribute some info-posts about LGBT Superheroes and Super-Villains from all mediums across the month.
There are some boundaries I will be sticking to when talking about LGBT characters. Firstly, I will only be talking about characters who have actively participated in some form of superheroism or vigilantism rather than just being a civilian. I will also only be talking about comic-book characters from the mainstream continuities as I know some characters are LGBT in different universes, this means as much as I want to talk about him I will not be talking about Wentworth Miller’s Leo Snart from the Arrowverse as neither Captain Cold or Citizen Freezing in the comics are gay and what I want to talk about with him I can still do with his on-screen partner. Also unless the characters have been officially stated as LGBT I will not be talking about them, this isn’t a speculation or gossip chain.
To sum up, the characters I will be talking about a
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 queer, he was Marvel’s first gay 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 space 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