'Avengers: Endgame' has the MCU's first canonically gay character

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Minor spoilers for Avengers: Endgame ahead.

With its 22nd film, the Marvel Cinematic Universe finally reached a certain historic first: Avengers: Endgame is the first MCU film to feature a canonically gay character.

You'll find him early in the movie, attending a support group with Captain America and casually discussing a recent date with another man. 

Endgame director Joe Russo, who also portrayed the character onscreen, told Deadline the moment was "important" to him: 

On the one hand, that this character exists at all is an encouraging sign of progress in a franchise that has, more often than not, stayed stubbornly behind the times, taking 18 films to get to its first non-white lead and 21 to get to its first female-led standalone. Read more...

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