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Young Avengers Wins GLAAD Award For Increased Visibility And Understanding Of LGBT Community

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From the GLAAD Awards in Los Angeles, this weekend, reflecting the portraying of gay characters and gay themes in pop culture, Marvel scored a win.

  • Outstanding Comic Book:  Young Avengers, written by Kieron Gillen (Marvel Comics)

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It was also drawn by Jamie McKelvie and Mike Norton with colorist Matthew Wilson and Clayton Cowles and a whole bunch of other folk for the final issue, but they never seem to take account of artists on these awards, let alone the one filling in the rainbow colours…

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As a comic, Young Avengers was keen to gather and portray a number of characters with sexuality away from the extremes of the Kinsey scale, to the extent that by the end of its run, it was pretty much 100% LGBT, a fact we noted at the time as being the first mainstream comic of its kind.

IMG_00231Anyway, congrats all round. And roll on The Wicked And The Divine.

 

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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