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Sorry for the bluntness of that title, but it is Pride Month and I wanted to catch everybody’s attention. A couple of years ago, Marvel introduced a modern Quasar, Avril Kincaid. I didn’t assess much about her because I’ve never thought much about Quasar at all. Avril is male lover, which is wonderful for diversity in comics and representation…but then Marvel went and killed her in one of their big Events. Granted, I reflect she was created to be killed in that moment, since she wasn’t around very drawn-out and the alike creators were involved.
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I became interested in Avril when I did a List of Six looking at what LGBTQ+ characters could star in their own solo superhero movies. Honestly, there aren’t many stay alone gay characters in comics…and I settled on Avril as Quasar organism Marvel’s best gamble. Since then, I’ve been particularly interested in the character…so it’s a shame she’s dead.
Until this week’s Guardians of the Galaxy Annual, wherein classic Quasar Wendell Vaughn reveals that she’s alive!
Nobody cares about Wendell Vaughn
So neat! A new and potentially prominent so
Star Wars Has Always Been a Little Gay. It Just Needs to Appear Out of the Closet.
The Star Wars is space vast—encompassing 42 years of movies, TV shows, comics, books, toys, video games, and so much more. These stories are only limited by the imagination—the tales of magical beings, of aliens of all types, of distant worlds, languages, and relationships. But, in four decades, the franchise has never managed to depict a solo queer romance on screen. And though it's elongated overdue, that might be about to change.
In an interview with Variety this week about the upcoming The Rise of Skywalker, writer and director J.J. Abrams suggested that the decades-spanning franchise's omission of gay characters could be coming to an finish, saying, “In the case of the LGBTQ people, it was important to me that people who go to see this movie feel that they’re being represented in the film.”
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Acclaimed screenwriter Russell T Davies knows a thing or two about bringing diversity to the screen.
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It’s not really a secret that on-screen representation in the live-action Star Wars films is lacklustre, to say the least. To start, I’d like to point out that the five main female protagonists of the trilogies and anthology films have all been cis, white brunettes. And while some progress has been made regarding male inclusion, women of colour with significant speaking roles were nowhere to be establish pre-Rose Tico. In a galaxy so big—and supposedly diverse—it’s like, statistically unworkable at this point.
What makes this issue even more aggravating is the evidence that the current canon outside the films is doing an incredible career at showcasing that Celebrity Wars is indeed, for everyone. The books, comics, and animated series acquire some of the most diverse characters the franchise has ever seen, yet there is still a significant amount of perform to be done with live-action.
The lack of advocacy is not just about race and/or ethnicity, either. It’s also about sexuality, body types, age, and disabilities. For example, before Star Wars: The Last Jedi, no two female characters over 50 years old, had spoken to one anothe
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Hugh Grant played Clive Allen in 1987's 'Maurice.'
Straight player Hugh Grant took on the role of Clive in James Ivory's "Maurice."
Clive is a gay guy who tries to suppress his homosexuality in Edwardian-era England. Grant's performance has been labeled as insightful and "intelligent," and in 1987, The New York Times critic Janet Maslin called Grant "so good."
Maslin said that Grant's Clive "embodies all the conservatism and complacency, not to state all the hidden craving, that Forster saw as most repressive in the English society of his day."
Hilary Swank played transitioned man Brandon Teena in 'Boys Don't Cry' in 1999.
Hilary Swank, who is cisgender, won an Oscar for playing trans gentleman Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry." Her production here was called "the performance of her career" by film critic James Berardinelli. The