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   Ami Angelwings (ami_angelwings@urusai.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 13:01:07 JST Ami Angelwings

   Marvel's Pride comics this year will team up queer characters and their straight allies (Daredevil, Spider-Man, Captain America, etc)

   The right wing will of course complain and there will be arguments on the left about the importance of allies and if allies should be the A in Pride and the usual stuff, and whether this is centering straight people or not.

   But for me the more f-ed up thing that's kinda flying under the radar is that Marvel is basically using Pride to confirm that a whole bunch of characters (conveniently the most popular, main ones) are straight.

   https://gocollect.com/blog/marvel-celebrates-pride-month-with-2024-pride-allies-variant-covers

   https://www.thepopverse.com/marvel-comics-pride-ally-allies-op-ed

   https://www.intomore.com/entertainment/comics/is-marvel-comics-pride-series-all-about-straight-people-this-year/

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     geekysteven (geekysteven@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 13:02:11 JST geekysteven

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     @ami_angelwings I see where you're coming from, but I also tend to think of people who identify as "allies" as being queer in some way but you need to give them some space to sort it out. Anyway, that's Peter Parker for ya