Well, I will be quite happy to say that I think there is absolutely an anti-queer agenda in most mainstream comics, including Marvel, but I’m also so thrilled to be finally vindicated!! Phil Coulson is indeed a beautiful bisexual nerd in love with his best friend, Nick Fury, and no one can take that from us. It really WAS queercoding and they really DID confess their love to each other in space Marvel were just too cowardly to let them make it explicit. Honestly, given this it means that Nick is queer too because the queercoding extends to him and to their relationship which is mutual. Nick Fury and Phil Coulson are queer and in love and no one can take it from me!
Image Description: 1) Screen shot of Ales Kot’s Twitter- he is replying to an indiewire article about why we don’t have any openly gay actors as superheroes. “When I wrote Agent Coulson as openly bisexual during my run on Secret Avengers, the script had to be rewritten. Not saying there’s an anti-queer agenda at Marvel, but saying that people thought about their wallets before thinking about representation.” 2) A comic panel of Phil and Nick surfing together in swim trunks- the caption is “This is really really good.”
Coming out hibernation to post this- Nick Fury was likely intended to be queer in Ales Kot’s run on Secret Avengers. The queercoding was intentionally done by a queer person who was forced to keep it explicitly off the page not just queerbaiting.
