Tag: media representation
Marvel Studios will finally show an explicitly queer superhero on the silver screen
This week at San Diego Comic-Con, actress Tessa Thompson revealed that she’ll play the first explicitly LGBTQ character shown in any of the Marvel Studios superhero films. Specifically in Thor: Love and Thunder, the fourth installment of the Norse-inspired series due out in November 2021, Thompson will reprise her role as Valkyrie and search for a queen to rule at her side in New Asgard.
This is a big deal as Marvel Studios’ 23 superhero films released over the last decade...
Tom Holland would be okay playing a gay Spider-Man, but don’t hold your breath
In a recent interview with The Sunday Times Tom Holland, the 23-year-old actor who has portrayed Spider-Man/Peter Parker in several Marvel superhero films, said that he would be okay if script writers had his character come out as gay in a subsequent film.
Holland said, “The world isn’t as simple as a straight white guy. It doesn’t end there, and these films need to represent more than one type of person.”
Marvel has slowly edged toward depicting out LGBTQ characters despite...
