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MOVIES: Leak Teases Valkyrie and Captain Marvel in 2023 Film

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Marvel fans are getting very excited about the possibility of queer superhero Valkyrie making an appearance in the upcoming Captain Marvel sequel. Marvel fans have been openly shipping Captain Marvel and Valkyrie as a future couple within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), so it’s no surprise that the idea of the two sharing a screen in The Marvels has left fans in a frenzy. Valkyrie is bisexual in the comic books. Played in the MCU by Tessa Thompson, she’s set to return in Thor: Love and Thunder where she’ll explore her queerness and “find her queen”. That film is due … Read more

MOVIES: Eternals’ Kit Harrington Calls on Marvel for More LGBTQ+ Rep

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Kit Harington has called for more LGBT+ representation in superhero movies. Harington recently starred in Marvel’s Eternals alongside Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos – the first openly queer superhero in an MCU film. Phastos’ addition the franchise was eagerly welcomed by LGBT+ fans, and it seems that Marvel is keen to correct its dearth of queer representation, with the recent Loki TV series confirming its titular anti-hero as bisexual and gender-fluid. Eternals star Harington is among those thrilled by Marvel finally moving with the times. In a chat with Out, he said he was “incredibly proud and happy,” to have joined the … Read more

TV: Marvel’s Hawkeye on Disney Plus Introduces New Queer Black Female Character

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has welcomed a new queer character in the most low-key way on the new Disney Plus series Hawkeye. In episode four, Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) – aka Hawkeye – tasked his young protégé, Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), with tracking down the trick arrows that he used to fight live-action role-playing (LARP) enthusiasts earlier in the season. Kate encountered off-duty New York Police Department officer Wendy Conrad (Adetinpo Thomas) who is training alongside the LARPers in the park. The young hero eventually enlisted the help of Conrad and others in the guild to help retrieve the missing … Read more

MOVIES: “Review Bombers” try to Tank “Eternals” Over Gay Character

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Marvel’s newest entry into the cinematic universe, Eternals, comes out later this week, but “review-bombers” are already at work trying to tank the film’s reputation. They haven’t actually seen the flick, which comes out on November 5. Instead, they’re upset that it includes the first out gay couple – the superhero Phastos and his husband Ben. Describing the movie as “woke and mediocre” or worse, the fake reviewers trashed the film on IMBD, spurring the site to remove all the negative reviews flooding the page. Rotten Tomatoes, the other popular movie ratings site, does not allow users to review movies … Read more

MOVIES: Eternals Director Asked Marvel Not to Censor Film’s LGBTQ+ Content for International Audiences

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Eternals’ director Chloé Zhao has confirmed she has talked to Marvel about not censoring LGBTQ+ content in the upcoming film for international audiences. Zhao told IndieWire that introducing Phastos, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s (MCU) first openly gay superhero, was “written into the story” long before she joined as director. Phastos appears in the film with his husband and their son, and Zhao said it was important that their family and their story felt “authentic and real” because the “audience has to feel that to care”. Full Story from Pink News

MOVIES: “The Eternals” star promises to ‘humanise the hell’ out of queer families

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The Eternals star Haaz Sleiman has said that the upcoming film will “humanise” LGBT+ families and “show how beautiful they are”. Sleiman will be married with a child to Phastos, the first openly gay superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). In a recent interview with Out magazine, the actor opened up about his history-making MCU role and what it means to him to represent LGBT+ families on screen. He said he feels “lucky” and “grateful” to be cast as the husband of Brian Tyree Henry’s character because he felt he could “humanise the hell out of it”. “I don’t … Read more

FILM: Lil Nas X is (Kinda) Part of the MCU

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Nothing can bring down Lil Nas X – not homophobic haters, vile internet trolls or even a Marvel supervillain. Lil Nas X was blown away after learning about a fan theory on Reddit that he survived Thanos’ infamous snap in Avengers: Infinity War that erased half of all life in the universe. One Reddit user pointed out that Nas must have survived the “blip” – another name for the fictional event in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) – because of a subtle easter egg in the new movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Full Story from Pink … Read more

When A marvel Film Almost Went Gay…

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Long before the stubbornly-heterosexual Marvel Cinematic Universe, cinema-goers were almost treated to a camp superhero epic that would have pitted Cher and KISS against Donna Summer and her Village People army. In 1979, Casablanca Records and some Hollywood execs wanted Marvel to piece together a script for a movie about Dazzler, an all-singing mutant superhero who can convert sound vibrations into light and energy beams, making her a literal blast at parties. Dazzer had made her comic book debut earlier that year, conceived in response to the rise of disco and in the hopes that Marvel would be able to … Read more

MARVEL: New Eternals Trailer Gives Fans Glimpse of Gay hero

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Marvel has dropped a new trailer for its upcoming action-packed movie Eternals, giving eager fans further glimpses of the MCU’s first-ever openly gay superhero. Brian Tyree Henry’s Phastos is a gay alien inventor extraordinaire who has been secretly helping humanity progress technologically from the shadows. Even though he isn’t in the newly-dropped trailer, actor Haaz Sleiman previously confirmed that he will play Phastos’ husband, and the pair will be featured in some capacity in the full-length movie. In the latest Eternals trailer, Marvel fans learn more about the immortal humanoid aliens, the Eternals, and meet their dangerous counterparts, the Deviants. … Read more

FILM: First Eternals Trailer Offers Glimpse of MCU’s First Out LGBTQ Superhero

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After being pushed out of 2020 thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) fans got a glimpse of its cosmic-meets-mythology ensemble piece “Eternals” Monday with the release of the film’s first teaser trailer. The trailer gives fans their first look at the star-studded cast in their heroic best, including Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek and Kumail Nanjiani. But “Eternals” is significant within the MCU’s cultural landscape as it will be the first film to feature an out LGBTQ superhero in the team’s technological expert and master inventor Phastos, portrayed by “Atlanta” and “Godzilla vs. Kong” star Brian Tyree Henry. … Read more