RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books Cap is not a gay nazi.

Would it make all that much difference if Captain America were gay? A gay Iron Man, now, given Tony Stark’s penchant for making lewd comments in the Marvel movies, would have made for a spikier shift in dynamics. A gay Hulk might have been read as homophobia, particularly if alter ego Bruce Banner remained straight. A gay Black Widow would have fed into stereotypes about physically adept women.

But a gay Captain America? Would anyone even notice?

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Perhaps that’s why the Twitter user behind the #givecaptainamericaaboyfriend hashtag chose good old Steve Rogers to have their sexuality switched, the latest salvo in the ongoing GLAAD-backed battle to improve Hollywood’s appalling record on diversity. Chris Evans’s patriotic hero is the guy you’d introduce your daughter (or son) to, rather than the Avengers member one might choose to go for a beer with. He’s the superhero equivalent of Alan Titchmarsh, an uncomplicated titan of conservatism in the tradition of that doyen of American innocence, Forrest Gump (though with a rather higher IQ). As Stark himself has pointed out, Rogers doesn’t even use curse words.

As such, Gay Cap would probably make no more of a fuss about his sexual proclivities than the current Straight Cap does. Which you have to assume is exactly the campaign’s point, even if the idea seems to have entered from way out in left field. After all, while the recent social-media drive to switch John Boyega and Oscar Isaac’s relationship from bromance to romance in the new Star Wars movies made a certain sort of sense, Rogers’s coming out would undercut both his previous passion for Hayley Attwell’s Peggy Carter and his burgeoning romance with her niece, Sharon, in current Marvel film Captain America: Civil War.

That doesn’t mean Marvel and its owner Disney are off the hook here: the studios certainly ought to be thinking about introducing a gay superhero into the Avengers continuum at the earliest opportunity. It’s just that there are better candidates.