Brian Tyree Henry Is Playing the MCU’s First Openly Gay Superhero

[RoomService]

Following the critical and commercial success of Black Panther and Captain Marvel, which proved that there is an audience out there hungry for superhero movies featuring diverse characters, Marvel Studios have promised that Phase Four of the MCU will also include LGBTQ+ representation, starting with next year's Eternals.
While a number of the rumors seemed to point towards Richard Madden being Marvel's first openly gay superhero after he was cast in the leading role of Ikaris, footage from the movie which was screened at CCXP 2019 this week seemingly just revealed that another core member of the Eternals will be in a same-sex relationship.
Phastos, played by Brian Tyree Henry (Widows, Atlanta) is shown in the trailer "holding hands with a male partner, with the pair accompanied by two kids," according to We Got This Covered. This certainly lines up with previous statements made by Marvel President Kevin Feige. "He’s married, he’s got a family, and that is just part of who he is," Feige told Good Morning America in August.

Depicting Phastos as an openly gay black man also means there is more space for intersectionality in The Eternals, and will give Henry the opportunity to play a character whose identity has many facets (which is fitting, given that these characters are immortal, with literally millions of years' worth of lived experience). This also follows Tessa Thompson's announcement at San Diego Comic-Con that Valkyrie's first order of business as the new King of Asgard in Thor: Love & Thunder will be to "find a queen," making the character's bisexuality canon.
So often in Hollywood, LGBTQ+ representation is often limited to the "G", with cisgender white men cast in gay roles. The fact that the first two explicitly not-straight characters in the MCU (Endgame's nameless Grieving Man notwithstanding) will both be queer people of color, and play key roles within their respective stories, is a promising sign that Marvel are living up to their promise to make movies that speak to everyone.

Brian Tyree Henry Is Playing the MCU’s First Openly Gay Superhero

New footage from Marvel's 'Eternals' just revealed Phastos will have a husband in the movie.

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[Tha Great Muta]

Welp....they buck broke Paper Boi

 

[MistaPhantastic]

Always the black guy.
Yeah, no agenda there. Just "coincidence".

 

[meilmarc]

Damn Paper Boi

 

[Hotlantan]

Welp....they buck broke Paper Boi

I've talked to Brian Tyree Henry in real life several times. Off camera that dude is gay. I mean real, REAL flaming gay. I mean @KingTaharqa gay! He is just a very good and very convincing ACTOR.

 

[RoomService]

Always the black guy.
Yeah, no agenda there. Just "coincidence".

 

[REDLINE]

There’s only one first gay superhero, even though they won’t admit it...

 

[2 ONE 3]

Wow...

 

[Worldboss5000]

 

[kidmegaii]

Not surprised

 

[forcesteeler]

Always the black guy.
Yeah, no agenda there. Just "coincidence".

It’s a hustle. The LGBT always use black people so that if there is a backlash they can always use the race card or that your racist against people of color.

While they can push there agenda.


But I don’t see how this is going to work out. China is one of the biggest markets outside of the US and they don’t play that homo shit. So I’m wondering how are they going to go along with this shit.

 

[conspiracy_brotha]

They just had to put a black face on this faggotry shit.

 

[55th View]

Damn, cats from that show ATLANTA are blowing up. Just saw another character in about 3 movie trailers (one of which was Knives Out).

 

[sammyjax]

I've talked to Brian Tyree Henry in real life several times. Off camera that dude is gay. I mean real, REAL flaming gay. I mean @KingTaharqa gay! He is just a very good and very convincing ACTOR.

man fr?? never would have guessed it.

 

[Duece]

I've talked to Brian Tyree Henry in real life several times. Off camera that dude is gay. I mean real, REAL flaming gay. I mean @KingTaharqa gay! He is just a very good and very convincing ACTOR.

Didn't that nigga show up somewhere in a dress?

 

[papa_spank32]

Fuck marvel. You don't see dc doing this shit. Its insuiting to gays also . when they made Iceland gay in the comics for no good reason even gays complained about that shit. Marvels push for diversity is pandering and corny. I used to love marvel now they fuckin' and me sick.

 

[papa_spank32]

I don't under stand why is LGBT representation innsuperhero movies so important? We are aware gay people exist what is the need for this shit. Also that was the most idiotic article ive ever read in my life.

 

[knightmelodic]

Who fucking cares? Just keep making good movies.

 

[xfactor]

‘Atlanta’ is a good show but all of the main characters are pansexuals playing heterosexual men.

They have no problem with it and will call it acting but they all get down like that.

But they will say it is the so-called black community that is the most homophobic but our community is ALWAYS the guinea pig for these hollywood agendas

Welp....they buck broke Paper Boi

 

["THE MAN"]

But of course.

 

[Knuckles666]

They should have cast D-Wade’s kid! Step mom can be his acting coach.

 

[Uncle John]

It’s being uncovered at such a vast and quick rate that I am starting to question reality. One of those mind altering realizations that it’s widespread.

 

["THE MAN"]

They should have cast D-Wade’s kid! Step mom can be his acting coach.

Rude lol

 

[MistaPhantastic]

Fuck marvel. You don't see dc doing this shit.

 

[Lou_Kayge]

Funny. Marvel hardly cares enough to push the Eternals to even B-list status in the comics, yet they get a movie?

 

["THE MAN"]

Wait Constantine is gay?

 

[ansatsusha_gouki]

Wait Constantine is gay?

He's both ways....

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

this why I love bgol.. wont be checking for that shit...

 

[Kwame Coltrane]

Why black men always gotta be the face of the LGBTQIEAHC agenda?

 

[MistaPhantastic]

He's both ways....

Like Black Canary in Legends of Tomorrow
Now that I think of it.....

Both are bi on the show. They've shown Lucifer getting out of bed with men and women and Mazikeen was in love with Eve.

 

[MistaPhantastic]

Why black men always gotta be the face of the LGBTQIEAHC agenda?

1. The efeminization of the black man is always and forever a goal in Hollywood as well as western society in general.
White males resent us because we are the alpha male of all races of men.

2. The letter gang can use blacks as shields and have theirs claim racism and homophobia simultaneously.

3. So they don't have to do it.

 

["THE MAN"]

Like Black Canary in Legends of Tomorrow
Now that I think of it.....

Both are bi on the show. They've shown Lucifer getting out of bed with men and women and Mazikeen was in love with Eve.

Well......its Lucifer lol.

 

[O.J PIMPSON]

Wasn't no LGBTQ in Wakanda!!!

 

[Tha Great Muta]

‘Atlanta’ is a good show but all of the main characters are pansexuals playing heterosexual men.

They have no problem with it and will call it acting but they all get down like that.

But they will say it is the so-called black community that is the most homophobic but our community is ALWAYS the guinea pig for these hollywood agendas

I dunno what the fuck all this pan sexual shit is I'm not one of these new blacks but I'm willing to bet they probably don't even have the fruit cake "Married" to another fruit cake who is black... these weirdos always talk that shit but don't even have another black person to be gay with.

 

[TimRock]

Wasn't no LGBTQ in Wakanda!!!

Thanks to a deleted scene