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Pansexual

Marvel Producer: Queer Characters Are Coming to Marvel Films

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Marvel Avengers

A Marvel film boss has addressed the “frustration” about the failure to include visible LGBT characters in the film universe. Despite featuring hundreds of characters across its 20 blockbuster films to date, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has never featured a visible LGBT character, despite many in the source comic books on which the films are based.  Several of the films, including Thor: Ragnarok, did have characters who were intended to be LGBT – but all references to their sexuality have unfailingly ended up on the cutting room floor. It has been alleged that Disney bosses are concerned that … Read more

FILM: Ryan Reynolds Open to Exploring Deadpool’s Sexuality

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Ryan Reynolds - twitter pic

Ryan Reynolds has said he would “love” to explore his character Deadpool’s sexuality more in future films. The R-rated superhero franchise became the first to feature out LGBT characters on the big screen, with Deadpool 2 revealing that Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) is a lesbian and introducing her girlfriend Yukio (Shioli Kutsuna). But star Ryan Reynolds is hoping to go further, and explore the lead character’s sexuality too, with Reynolds and Deadpool 1 director Tim Miller having previously described Deadpool as pansexual. Speaking during a Q&A at Comic-Con San Diego, Reynolds said: “I certainly think that this universe needs to represent and … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Impact Flash Fiction Anthology

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Impact

Queer Sci Fi is releasing its fourth flash fiction anthology: Impact. The book has just come out! IM * PACT (noun) 1) One object colliding with another 2) An impinging of something upon something else 3) An influence or effect on something or someone 4) The force of a new idea, concept, technology or ideology Four definitions to inspire writers around the world, and an unlimited number of possible stories to tell, but only 110 made the final cut. A difficult choice to be made. An object hurtling recklessly through space. A new invention that will change the world. So … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Once Upon a Rainbow V3 Anthology

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Once Upon a Rainbow V3

NineStar Press has just released the third volume in the queer Once Upon a Rainbow fairy tale anthology series: Your favorite stories from childhood have a new twist. Seven fairy tales of old with characters across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. NineStar Press | Amazon | Goodreads The Stories Green Things Grow from Cinders by A.E. Ross – Glass slippers aren’t for everyone. Gretel on Her Own by Elna Holst – This time around, Gretel Kindermann is on her own. Or is she? Bremen Town Musicians by Mark Lesney – Loss and love on the road to Bremen Town. The Scent of … Read more

COVER REVEAL/GIVEAWAY: Impact Flash Fiction Anthology

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Impact

Queer Sci Fi is releasing its fourth flash fiction anthology: Impact. We have the cover reveal here today! IM * PACT (noun) 1) One object colliding with another 2) An impinging of something upon something else 3) An influence or effect on something or someone 4) The force of a new idea, concept, technology or ideology Four definitions to inspire writers around the world, and an unlimited number of possible stories to tell, but only 110 made the final cut. A difficult choice to be made. An object hurtling recklessly through space. A new invention that will change the world. … Read more

FILM: Writers Say Lando Calrissian is Pansexual

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Lando Calrissian

Lando Calrissian, one of the heroes in Solo: A Star Wars Story, is pansexual, according to one of the movie’s writers. Calrissian, played Donald Glover, is one of Han Solo’s associates in the upcoming Star Wars tale and was first introduced played by Billy Dee in The Empire Strikes Back.  Talking to the Huffington Post, the movie’s father-son writing duo Lawrence and Jonathan Kasdan confirmed that the character was pansexual. There’s a fluidity to Donald and Billy Dee’s [portrayal of Lando’s] sexuality,” said Jonathan Kasdan. “I mean, I would have loved to have gotten a more explicitly LGBT character … Read more

Identity of Deadpool 2’s Bisexual, Polyamorous Superhero Revealed

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Lewis Tan - Instagram

The identity of Deadpool 2’s bisexual, polyamorous superhero has been revealed. Last month, we found out that Shatterstar, who has appeared in Marvel comics since 1991, will star alongside Ryan Reynolds’ pansexual Deadpool in the sequel to the 2016 smash hit. His kiss in 2009 with gay superhero Rictor was the first same-sex kiss in a mainstream Marvel comic. And now we know who will play the time-travelling mutant human, who in the comics travels from both his alien planet Mojoworld and through time. Lewis Tan, who played Zhou Cheng in Marvel’s Iron Fist, posted on Instagram with a screenshot … Read more