{"id":958,"date":"2012-05-23T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T14:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=958"},"modified":"2012-05-23T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T14:39:18","slug":"gay-superhero-in-astonishing-x-men-to-get-married-to-his-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/05\/gay-superhero-in-astonishing-x-men-to-get-married-to-his-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay superhero in Astonishing X-Men to get married to his partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marvel comic-strip, X-Men, is to feature its first same-sex wedding, as an openly gay superhero proposed to his boyfriend in an issue that went on sale this week.<\/p>\n<p>The current issue of Astonishing X-Men, No. 50, sees Jean-Paul Beaubier, whose alter-ego, Northstar, can move at super-human speeds, proposing to his partner of three years, Kyle Jinadu.<\/p>\n<p>Their wedding will be featured in the next issue, out on 20th of June, Marvel Comics has confirmed. The comic-strip first broke ground by announcing that Northstar, a character in the series since 1979, was gay back in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC reports that some retailers are already planning their own wedding parties in order to celebrate the forthcoming wedding.<\/p>\n<p>The editor-in-chief of Marvel, Axel Alonso said in a statement:\u00a0\u201dThe Marvel Universe has always reflected the world outside your window, so we strive to make sure our characters, relationships and stories are grounded in that reality.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2012\/05\/23\/gay-superhero-in-astonishing-x-men-to-get-married-to-his-partner\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Pinknews+%28Pink+News%29\">Read More <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/05\/main.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-959\" title=\"main\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/05\/main.jpg?resize=306%2C465&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/main.jpg?w=306&amp;ssl=1 306w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/main.jpg?resize=197%2C300&amp;ssl=1 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marvel comic-strip, X-Men, is to feature its first same-sex wedding, as an openly gay superhero proposed to his boyfriend in an issue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-humor","news-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}