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Across The Spider-Verse Is A Story About Rejection In LGBTQ Spaces
The one place you hope to experience safe as a gay person is LGBTQ+ spaces, but that’s not always the case. Bisexuals are often shut out for ‘not being gay enough’, especially when in straight-passing relationships, and trans people constantly face hate movements like ‘LGB without the T’, although many of these are astroturfed (astroterfed?) by outsiders. This exclusion is unfortunately all too common as some in the queer community stickiness to gatekeeping as a way to find their own purpose. Yet it’s a story that’s rarely unpacked in media, leave alone represented, so I was surprised when I found a similar narrative unfolding in Across the Spider-Verse.
Miles Morales is a Spider-person who many interpret as a stand-in for LGBTQ+ people. There’s an entire society of Spider-people that, from the outside, you’d think would all share the same ideals. I know Spider-Man, so why would Spider-Man yearn to hurt Spider-Man? Look, it sounds silly. But Miles is excluded from the start, labelled an anomaly just because he’s different to them in all the ways that don’t matter.
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Recently joining the intellectually inept ranks of Internet Explorer users (which happens to be a hoax) is the reporting staff of the Daily Mail as they took it upon themselves to announce to the nature in that Spider-Man may perhaps be gay. Bleeding Cool was kind enough to call them out on it.
This on the heels of the disclose in Ultimate Fallout #4 that the new Spider-Man, Miles Morales, is of mixed-race descent. The novel Webslinger isn’t a middle-class, white American. Great, we get it. At the end of the daytime, the race of a hero is of no consequence to The Rag and we’re not going to waste any more time writing about it. What is of ramification, though, is a expression made by artist Sara Pichelli:
‘Maybe sooner or later a black or queer – or both – hero will be considered something absolutely normal.’
Taking her comment thoroughly out of context, the Mail declared in a headline: “Marvel Comics reveals the modern Spider Man is dark – and he could be gay in the future.” It seems that Pichelli was explaining her hope that in a perfect world, the race or sexual identity of a hero wouldn’t be given a second idea. Marvel has no plans of alter
Do my eyes deceive me? Spider-Man news that doesn’t involve Tom Holland? Can you save us Britney Spears? Can we be saved?
In terms of men in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, queer characters featured on screen include Loki, Deadpool, Korg and Phastos. When you factor in backing and supporting characters, this number hits almost a dozen.
While Spider-Man has yet to feature a gay webslinger while exploring the Multiverse, one does exist in comic novel form – who was introduced in Edge of the Spiderverse in September 2022.
But that doesn’t imply its creators are shying away from LGBT voice. The little pride flags on sale on a street corner in the first Spider-Man game were duly noted. The sequel, however, is showing that everyone is worthy of a little help from a popular superhero.
As noted by The Gamer, here’s a list of LGBT representation in Spider-Man 2:
- LGBT supportive lane art featured throughout the city
- Street flags that illustrate all members of the queer spectrum including lgbtq+ pride, trans pride and respect for other orientations including pansexual and asexual
- Black Cat, a burglar akin to Catwoman in DC, is bisexual
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The Case For Gay Miles Morales [Pride Week]
Everyone needs a Spider-Man. Sure, Peter Parker might be excellent for some people, but my Spider-Man was always Mayday Parker from the MC2. I want Spider-Man to be anyone. I want there to be a Spider-Man that every comic reader can recognize with. When Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli unleashed Miles Morales on the world, it was a godsend. Despite how wonderful Tom Holland is, I still think Miles should have been the Spider-Man we saw in Captain America: Civil War.
When I was younger, I was depressed a lot. I'm queer, it's not too unexpected. What got me through that was reading massive amounts of Spidey comics. And while I love every issue I read of Amazing Spider-Man and Ultimate Spider-Man, Peter Parker doesn't represent me. Sure, he's white, and a dork, but that's kinda it.
Before I even knew I was a girl (remember not knowing your gender? didn't it suck?) I loved Mayday. I felt connected to her in some weird primal way. I had a small, manga-sized collection of her comics. I still have it today. It's falling apart, front and back covers gone, about forty pages in the middle
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