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Considering how tied a movie’s success is to the international box office - and how some country’s governments feel about homosexuality (see Bohemian Rhapsody’s China edit) - it is, in an abstract, unemotional way, impressive that the Russo brothers got such a direct mention of homosexuality into Avengers: Endgame. This isn’t to say that I don’t appreciate seeing gay characters appear on screen, or that I want studios to stop depicting them.
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( Some of them might be queer, sure, but we haven’t heard about it!) Including a scene with a gay character as minor as this doesn’t rectify that reality, it just makes the overwhelming sameness of the rest of the enterprise more stark. With or without him, this is still a universe where action is defined and propelled by its straight and/or sentient plant leads. Compared to those two scenes, at least Joe Russo’s character in Endgame has the time to work through some emotional complexity - he’s sad, and he assumes he will be less sad if he’s dating (a mistake I have also made) - but the moment’s still tangential to the larger story. Beauty and the Beast gave LeFou that infamous “exclusively gay moment” that amounted to a short dance with a henchman. Star Trek Beyond made John Cho’s Sulu gay with a man-hug that you probably wouldn’t have noticed if it weren’t for the discourse that sprung up around it.
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In large part, it feels like Avengers: Endgame’s moment is part of a trend of big movies paying lip service to the idea of representing a great variety of people on screen, rather than the (mostly) straight white men who have consumed dangerous amounts of protein powder, without putting in the hard work to make that representation meaningful.
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It is a perfect time, because one of the things that is compelling about the Marvel Universe moving forward is its focus on diversity.” It’s a good sentiment, and it’s nice that the directors are pushing for more inclusion in the Marvel universe, but really, why does this all feel so … exhausting? “We felt it was important that one of us play him, to ensure the integrity and show it is so important to the filmmakers that one of us is representing that. “It was important to us as we did four of these films, we wanted a gay character somewhere in them,” Joe said. He and his brother Antony recently discussed that moment with Deadline, explaining why they wanted to make sure a moment like it appeared in their movie. Joe, one of the two Russo brothers who directed Endgame, plays the gay character himself. Throw up the banners! Bring out the pride parade! Time to celebrate, uh, gay Mets guy! Captain America, An Ally, tells the gay guy that things are hard, but he’s doing good work getting himself out there, and then the scene ends. Secondly, yep, you heard that right, this guy who loves the Mets (very masc) is gay, and what’s more, he’s the first openly gay character in a Marvel superhero movie. First of all, that’s very relatable it happens to me on dates all the time. Captain America is at a support group for people trying to cope after The Snap, and some ordinary guy starts talking about his date with another guy, which did not go well because they both started crying. Somewhere in the first act of Avengers: Endgame - when the movie’s acting like a riff on The Leftovers, but before it becomes a time-travel cousin of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - there’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene that’s pretty groundbreaking. Light spoilers ahead for Avengers: Endgame. Captain America, thank you for being an ally.