Colossus is gay
COLOSSUS
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Today in Halifax Nova Scotia its Gay Pride. Technically it’s been Lgbtq+ Pride week since last Sunday but today is the day that they held the march and the concert and fireworks and all that jazz so I assume you could tell today is the gayest and pride-iest day of the week. The pride grows every year and this year was no exception with what was the longest procession I think I’ve ever seen. I’m very supportive of the LGBT collective and I wish you are too. I have friends that fall into each of those categories (lesbian, same-sex attracted, bi-sexual and transgender) and my minuscule brother is out and proud and awesome. I examine an article about Gay Pride Week in this weeks issue of The Coast (our free alternative newspaper) and it was lovely sad to decipher about how some people that marched in Halifax’s first Pride Parade 25 years ago had to wear bags over their heads so as not to get known and potentially fired from their jobs. We’ve come along way from that Thankfully. Seeing the large crowd that turned out for the parade today made me satisfied .
To celebrate queer pride today I thought it might be nice to review a male lover action figure. U
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Although comics have always been an inherently political form of media, it took a long hour for editors to be on board with the concept of openly lgbtq+ superheroes, partially as a result of the dreaded Comics Code of Leadership. While we own yet to vibrate all of the stigma and backlash set by the Comics Code of Authority, we own made strides in the years since it was stricken down. While lgbtq+ characters are still vastly underrepresented by Marvel and DC Comics, there are a great deal more well-written LBGTQIA characters in comics than there were 20 years ago.
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While the universe of queer superheroes is still taboo to some readers (as they have made perfectly clear on Twitter, Reddit and other internet forums), change is just something they will have to fetch used to as they are here to stay. Even though the announcement of a fresh queer character, or the reimagining of a character whose orientation was never addressed as queer usually makes waves, there are some openly queer characters you might not understand about. In an attempt to remedy that, CBR presents
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It had to happen. While watching the new “Deadpool” film opening night, this image immediately struck my psyche. I was immediately reminded of famous fashion and celebrity photographer Herb Ritts and one of his famous – and famously gay – portraits of a muscled bloke holding tires. His body of work is remarkable, and I count him among one of the photographers who truly inspired me, even though I never developed in to a studio portraitist.
This image took a few hours to render, but I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out. Let me know what you think.
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Contributed by Terence W. Ng
Please mention this profile is for the Ultimate version of Colossus. The character’s 616 version is not gay.
In the Ultimate universe, Piotr (Peter) Rasputin originally worked in arms dealings for the Russian Mob to support his family in Siberia, but eventually left after he was recruited by Xavier to join the X-Men. Dissatisfied with the X-Men after several missions and carrying feelings of exclusion by the other team members, he eventually left. Cyclops and Marvel Girl pursued him, whereupon he gave them the aforementioned reasons for vanishing, to which Jean Grey protested saying that he actually left because of his attraction to an undisclosed teammate. He fast dismissed them. However, he returned when the X-Men needed his help to save a Russian submarine that sank in the ocean.
For a long time, it was hinted that Colossus was attracted to Wolverine. The two worked on missions together and Colossus often supported Wolverine during battle. During the Return of the King arc, Colossus tells Wolverine that if they execute not survive, he wants to tell him what is in his heart, though Wolverine tells him, fully aware of what it is, that he should be