(This article contains some spoilers for the third episode of Marvel’s “Loki” on Disney+)Disney has caught a lot of flack lately for being late to the party on LGBTQ representation in its films and television shows, and then when actually featuring a queer character on screen, typically putting them in strictly minor roles.
But now, finally, we do actually have a major character, a headlining character even, who is openly bisexual: Loki himself (Tom Hiddleston).The reveal came in the middle of the third episode of “Loki,” which largely consisted of Loki and the woman we think of as Lady Loki (Sophia Di Martino) — she’s going by Sylvie — tooling around on some faraway moon in the Kree galaxy that’s about to be destroyed in the year 2077..