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List of characters who identify as gay or lesbian (attracted to someone of the same gender). Still, compared to other mainstream comics, the X-Men have always been remarkably progressive. While there are more queer characters per capita than in most franchises, a lot of these characters vanish from their respective titles right around the time they're written as not-straight.

Like HIV, it was viewed as a disease that only affected specific people until eventually Moira MacTaggert was infected and slowly perished to the illness. There have been some stories that honored her memory of her lost love. On one hand, this makes sense in a book aimed at young folks, but on the other, it flattens a complex issue.

He was married to his boyfriend Kyle in but has seldom appeared in a prominent role over the last several years. The X-Men have been oft-cited as a parallel for the civil rights movement, but as a tale focused around five white prep school kids, it is true that some of the gravity of the situation was lost in translation.

All in all the X-Men/mutants seems to be proportionally better at LGBTQ+ representation compared to the rest of the Marvel universe. As much as X-Men has appealed to queer audiences over the years, actual queer representation in their pages has been fairly low.

Outsiders have always flocked to this concept, and for very obvious reasons. But how many of our merry band of mutants from X-Men ’97 are – or have been – portrayed as queer at some point?. Still, actual mention of queer characters was non-existent through this time, and indeed there was a great deal of suppression of queer subject matter at Marvel.

For years, anytime Mystique showed up in a comic, chances are Destiny would be by their side. Open the pages of any X-Men comic currently on the stands, and you will find a plethora of LGBTQ characters starring in the books, such as gay teen Anole (“NYX” #1, July ), bisexual Kitty Pryde (“Exceptional X-Men” #1, coming in September ), and the iconic lesbian anti-hero, Mystique (“Mystique #1,” coming in October ).

Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. That is what has drawn such a wide audience to X-Men, and it is what makes it stand out for so many readers. Ignoring the real world fact that specific communities are more vulnerable than others allowed it to become an umbrella issue that could hurt mutants of all class backgrounds on equal footing, thus again missing much of the horror behind the real world events on which the story was based.

The early years of the X-Men were fairly low on significant social commentary beyond the basic elements of its premise. The downside to this, of course, is that those things usually appear as a metaphor only, and representation still has a long way to go. Enraged, Mystique attacks Carol through those closest to her, actually maiming one of her boyfriends.

From classic X-Men like Kitty Pryde and Iceman to offbeat side characters like Deadpool and Anole, there are more and more queer mutants every day. However, the X-Men have changed vastly over the years, and this basis has given countless writers and artists the opportunity to tackle heavy subjects like classism, racism, homophobia, and ableism through mainstream comics.

If we detach the X-Men from this notion that it in any way resembles these real-life people and scenarios, we are given a cast of relatable characters who experience a fictionalized version of oppression, and that has drawn countless people to the franchise that experience the real world equivalent, but without the cool superpowers.

Plenty of canonically queer superheroes have called themselves – at one point or another – an X-Man, such as Iceman, Northstar and even drag-queen-inspired Shade. In , a queer superhero was unheard of, although Northstar had been written as queer from the start in subtextual ways.

10 LGBT X-Men With X-Men: Days of Future Past currently blowing up at the box office, we take a look at some of our favorite LGBT X-Gene carriers. Still, we recently saw him become active once more in the Age of X-Man book, the X-Tremists , and as prominent queer X-Men go, Northstar has always been one of the most visible.

However, several out and proud queer characters have joined the ranks of Marvel’s merry mutants throughout the years. Meanwhile, Mystique is another character who was written as queer from her first appearances in Ms. When she shows up as a nemesis for Carol Danvers, it is because Destiny has warned her that Carol poses a danger to Rogue and their lives together.

In the '90s, the Legacy Virus appeared as an analog to AIDS during a time when it was the leading cause of death for queer men although, of course, it was primarily straight characters who were affected in the fictional world of the X-Men. Many mutants died as a result of this.

He had a mini-series that came and went without a single nod to the story, and indeed he didn't discuss his sexuality again until he joined the X-Men. With X-Men: Age of Apocalypse now out, we figured this was the perfect time. Indeed, the initial comparison between Xavier and Magneto and MLK and Malcolm X gives an extremely lopsided view of the beliefs of both activists.

Even if only rating by the premise of what is a better story, Mystique and Destiny win by a landslide. Strangely both noteworthy trans characters are not part of that crowd.