Gay Marriage In Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics has been teasing a wedding for Astonishing X-Men #51, out in June, and according to comics site Newsarama, it’s going to be mutant speedster Northstar and his boyfriend, Kyle, who get hitched.

It makes sense — new Astonishing X-Men writer Marjorie Liu has established that Northstar will be part of the book’s cast, and a same-sex marriage would show that Marvel is willing to take the same progressive step that Archie took recently, in marrying off Kevin Keller in their alternate future title Life with Archie.

On a practical level it makes sense, too: Currently, the X-Men are based in San Francisco where, alas, same-sex marriage isn’t legal. But Northstar is Canadian—he could race Kyle up to Quebec, tie the knot and return to base in the time it takes Wolverine to pop his claws.





I've been an avid Xmen reader since issue one and yeah I still collect all the Xmen titles.
Even as a little Ulf (and we're talking before I could read) I was attracted to the masculine ideal, add in the fact that the basic premiss of this comic series mirrors the struggle for acceptance that all gay men (and women) have faced.
You could just as easily insert any minority into this series appeal, but for me, as a kid, it gave me the strength to face whatever the world tossed my way.