Another X-Man is out of the closet

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One of the newest members of the X-
Men, Marvel’s mutant supergroup and
long-running platform for various flavors
of civil-rights allegory, came out of the
closet in this week’s Uncanny X-Men #14.
Although that makes it sound like a
cosmic revelation, in fact Benjamin Deeds
—  a.k.a. Morph — rather casually
mentions his homosexuality in
conversation in the issue.
Gay characters are becoming more
commonplace in superhero comic books.
Just last year, occasional X-Man Northstar
got married. And, as a representative for
Marvel told the Huffington Post , the
character’s sexual orientation is just “a
small facet of who he is.” (Some context:
he also has the power to alter his
appearance, which will probably come up
more frequently in supervillain fights than
with who he shares his bed with.)
Still, the casualness of the whole event is
a nice signpost for the advancement of
gay characters in mainstream comic
books. And it brings us as a culture one
step closer to Andrew Garfield’s beautiful
dream of an interracial bisexual superhero
fantasia . So, progress.