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Marvel Fending Off Anti-Gay Smear Campaign Against Eternals
The latest Marvel Superhero film is officially rated 57% “Rotten” after being “review bombed” before its release.
Marvel is growing again!
The newest entry in Marvel’s impressive- and rapidly growing- universe of film adaptations, Eternals, is proving to be the most controversial. Although the 200 Million dollar film has yet to hit cinemas, it has been heavily criticized and mocked by Marvel loyalists, accused of being “A Woke Piece of Garbage.”
Woke, in this context, simply means the world in which the fantasy characters live looks like the world we live in. The film, which stars Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Gemma Chan and Salma Hayek, includes members of the LGBT people… specifically, an out gay Superhero in the form of Phastos, played by Brian Tyree Henry. But, Phastos isn’t merely out; He positively representing the gay community as a man devotedly married to his long-time partner, played by fellow actor Haaz Sleiman, which whom he shares a young son.
They are a Family.
The two actors break new ground in Eternals by sharing the first on-screen gay kiss in the expansive…
