Tag: Captain America

'Growing up in the theatre helped me, growing up in a progressive community helped me' Captain America star Chris Evans has said he is inspired by his gay brother. The 35-year-old Marvel star has said any activism he does comes from his experiences supporting his brother Scott in the light of the US election. ‘It’s really important to put faces in the situations that we’re navigating as a society,’ Evans said, saying America is in ‘tricky times right now’. ‘I’ve never felt any...

Fans urged that Captain America gets a boyfriend as we don't see many gay characters in superhero flicks, even if, some of them are gay in the comic books. So, given the tight relationship between the Cap and his pal, fans saw more than a friendship and urged Marvel to hook up the two of them. https://twitter.com/JoshuaYehl/status/735194651875889153 Then, a student created the hashtag #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend that took over the internet. I feel like it sucks that people in the LGBT community don’t get...

One of the trendiest hashtags in U.S. these days is #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend, urging Marvel and Disney to include more gay characters into their movies. Jess Salerno was the one who started the #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend hashtag on Twitter. “I feel like it sucks that people in the LGBT community don’t get the representation that they deserve and it would be so amazing for something like Captain America or Marvel to be able to portray that,” he said in an interview. Salerno highlights the importance of...