X-Men by Chris Claremont6/5/2023 This year at Flame Con, New York’s queer-comics convention, legendary X-Men scribe Chris Claremont attempted to address the queer embrace of his comic - or, as Andrew Wheeler, editor-in-chief of Comics Alliance has put it, while “LGBT people couldn’t be part of the X-Men’s text, the experiences of LGBT people came to dominate the X-Men’s subtext.” “As stupid as it sounds, it was never there in my head so it was weird to see other people reacting that way,” Claremont said on the panel Pride and the X-Men. The letter, published in Uncanny X-Men #317, wasn’t the first time that group of misfits would be seen through the lens of a queer identity, nor would it be the last. “He was a mutant.” He saw himself in Beast, in Rogue, in Iceman. “He hated himself because he was gay,” she wrote. His sexual orientation, he said, was also why he had always liked the X-Men. In 1994, shortly after her 19-year-old brother died of leukemia, a young woman wrote a letter addressed to “the creators of the X-Men comics.” In it, she recounted how days before his death her brother had come out to her, confessing how deeply unhappy he was.
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