He’s a Canadian ski champion with the mutant ability to fly. After years of hints, he came out as gay in 1992. In 2012, he married his partner Kyle Jinadu, the first same-sex marriage in superhero comics. At the time it was a highly-publicized event in the X-Men timeline. Since then he has faded from the spotlight. Still, he is forever known for his key role in superhero history. Astonishing X-Men #51/Marvel 11) Negasonic Teenage Warhead Deku has no powers at the beginning of My Hero Academia, but he strives to become like his hero, All Might, so he can inspire people in the same way, and he gets there through perseverance and hard work.

Scott says he was asked to be a guardian of the Earth, and tells Jade and Obsidian, “I didn’t think it would be right to take that job without finally being the whole of myself.” The Comics Code Authority, a government authority that policed comic book content, banned “illicit sex relations” and “sexual abnormalities”. However, there was no specific explanation as to what these terms actually referred to. This loose wording allowed Comics Code Authority administrators to censor just about anything that can be perceived as gay. Cienan sums this by saying “You don’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve come from.”

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She also praised Dreamer as a chance to demonstrate “trans people are more than what’s in our pants. We are more than our trauma. We’re more than our gender. We are just fully-fledged superheroes, who have an arc outside of our transness.” Captain America "The United States of Captain America" comic book cover Marvel I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about that night and I — I don’t know what it meant to me,” Tim says after rescuing his friend. “Not yet. But I’d like to figure it out.” To be a young, queer comic reader in America today is to look for heroes in a country that seems insistent on denying heroism any chance to triumph. A gay, or bi, or ace, or trans superhero might be a small and cautious gesture, but every gesture takes on outsized meaning when speaking out is itself a source of fear. And if those characters happen to be, themselves, young and uncertain, maybe that just means they, like their readers, will have to make a new future in spite of the old guard ahead of them.

In June, Marvel’s “The United States of Captain America” miniseries hits stores, introducing readers to a variety of everyday people from all walks of life who’ve taken up the mantle of Captain America to defend their communities. America Chavez, aka Miss America, debuted in the 2011 miniseries Vengeance but only gained her cult following after a subsequent makeover and reappearance in New Avengers. She’s a super-strong badass with the ability to fly and travel to other dimensions—not to mention she has one of the most cosplay-able costumes in the Marvel universe. She’s also bisexual, making her the first LGBTQ Latinx superhero to get her own solo comic, the excellent 2017 series America. Marvel Universe/YouTube 5) Harley Quinn Miguel Santos, a.k.a. Living Lightning, boasts one of the most unique coming out scenes in the history of comics.DC Comics introduced a nonbinary version of the Flash during “Future State,” a major comic book crossover event in January.