The queer comic character of the day is Jean-Paul Beaubier / Northstar from Marvel! He's Marvel's 1st gay hero!
Introduced in 1979, Northstar was always meant to be gay, but he was only allowed to come out in 1992 with Alpha Flight (1983) #106. He married Kyle Jinadu in 2012.
The queer comic creator of the day is Matt Baker!
The first successful Black artist in comics, multiple friends and fellow Golden Age creators have said he was also gay. While we'll never know for certain, Marvel included an LGBT center named after him in Pride 2022.
we don’t have many indian gay characters at marvel, but at least we have raz malhotra!!!! everyone read abt him NOW for pride month https://t.co/FbgtwX9e0K
A boycott requires clear and concise deliverables/goals/demands, consistent messaging, and a shared understanding of everyone’s roles. Without these things it will cause more harm than good toward stated goals,
i have lived in america all my life and hung up my family’s clothes to dry all throughout the summer and have never gotten weird remarks abt it from other people dude wtf do europeans learn abt us
I find it so funny when y’all try to make generalized statements about America like we aren’t over 300 million people deep with a huge range of diversity and varying subcultures and regional customs
the first time i learnt representation was important, was when a r rahman won his two oscars. i vividly remember watching him accept his oscars on a shitty crtv in a small apartment w my parents back in 2009, and my dad started tearing up when he ended his speech w +
“ella puhazhum iraivanukke” (“god is great” in tamil). it was the first time my parents had seen their culture represented in an institution they saw as quintessentially american, and it moved them to such emotions. that’s why i don’t get the point of +