-Grew up poor, the son of two Jewish Romanian immigrant parents. He had to share a room with his brother while his parents slept on the couch.
-Helped write for a comic book whose first issue, while not written by Lee, showed a superhero punching Hitler in the face on the COVER. Which was a very dangerous thing to do during WWII, especially with all the support the Nazi party had in America at the time.
-Created the X-Men, a not so subtle metaphor for civil rights, and eventually for gay rights, at a time when these issues were very much not being taken seriously by most of the country.
-Helped create the Black Panther, one of the first mainstream POC superheroes.
-Went on to create many LGBT and POC heroes despite this being very controversial in the industry at the time.
-Received death threat after death threat for most of these things, but kept doing it because he knew that equality couldn’t be silenced.
-When asked about the bi/POC Spider-Man headcanon, yes, I know, he didn’t agree. But y'all are leaving out the why. He said he didn’t support it because it’s better to create new, original characters, that way every version of them, not just one, represents those who need representation.
Stan Lee fought tooth and nail for equality and representation. That’s all he’s ever done, even when faced with threats against his job, his credibility, his life, all he did was fight for equality.
He believed in you. In them. In all of us. He believed we all deserved to be equal and this is how you repay him.
So don’t you sit your privileged ass behind that screen and call him a bigot, a racist, a homophobe. Just because you didn’t understand a statement, doesn’t mean you get to spit on the grave of a true hero. A True Believer.
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