Northstar marvel gay

Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, the character first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men # (April ) as a member of the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight. [1] Northstar is a member of a fictional subspecies of humanity known as mutants, who are born with superhuman.

The story ends with Major Mapleleaf and Northstar comforting each other as the baby girl succumbs to her illness. The final page is a newspaper clipping chronicling Northstar’s public coming out in the wake of his daughter’s death. Both in the Marvel Universe and the real world, he is the first mainstream superhero to do so.

Back in , Marvel Comics made headlines by revealing that Northstar, a Canadian superhero associated with Alpha Flight and the X-Men, was gay. Twenty years later, the character is back in the.

Marvel’s first gay superhero is an amalgamation of straight assumptions. Northstar was introduced in as the first gay character in the superhero genre.