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Joe Locke Addresses Backlash To His Same-sex attracted MCU Character: “The Marvel Fandom Is Far Less Nice”

Agatha All Alongactor Joe Locke opens up about portraying a gay character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The next Marvel Studios TV show that will be coming out of the MCU timeline this collapse is Agatha All Along, serving as the first WandaVision spinoff series after Kathryn Hahn's debut as Agatha Harkness. The Marvel TV series will search Agatha after the events of WandaVision and her track to gaining her powers back after what Scarlet Witch did to her in the finale.

In a new highlight piece by Variety, Locke shared his thoughts on joining the MCU, as well as some of the responses to him playing a gay personality in the franchise. To Locke, who is openly homosexual himself, he felt it was opposite of Marvel fans to initially phone for "authentic casting," only to then call his nature "a campy homosexual stereotype," sharing the following:

I’ve never really thought about it. It’s one of those things that gets a bit stressful if you think about it too much. But being in a Marvel series is the most pinch me thing. [...] I thought you get cast in a Marvel display, you get paid to get

Netflix star Joe Locke understands the importance of playing Charlie Spring in Heartstopper. The actor, who came out as gay before his claim to fame, is speaking publicly about his sexuality.

“It’s really nice to carry on getting to know Charlie, growing with him, and using the things that I learned from the craziness of last year to position into Charlie as a character,” Joe told Netflix’s TUDUM in August 2023, ahead of Heartstopper‘s second season.

“Charlie is probably the most confident nature in the reveal. I’ve learned a lot about confidence from him,” the British star added. “About the alternative types of confidence, and how you don’t always dependency to be an outwardly extra-confident person to be confident in who you are, and think in staying real to your morals.”

Playing Charlie brought a sense of confidence to Joe’s hold life, especially in terms of helping young people in the LGBTQ+ community.

“I think coming out is stupid, that it’s still a thing that people have to do,” he shared during an interview with The New York Times in July 2023, revealing that he had come out at 12 years old in a since-deleted social media post. “I had just told my mum, and I was on highest

Joe Locke first captured our hearts when he appeared as one-half of the heartwarming teenage queer couple on Netflix’s Heartstopper together with Kit Connor. 

Related: Netflix Drops Joe Locke and Kit Connor’s Heart-Stopping First Scene

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Proud does not even begin to describe Joe Locke, the young man is the embodiment of gay pride. The Heartstopper actor came out at a very tender age of 12-years-old and then again at 15. Since then, the actor has used his voice to rally behind and to represent the gender non-conforming community. Back in 2022, Self-acceptance in London came back onto the streets after the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, homophobic protesters consideration they could ruin the event. Luckily, Locke and his castmates carried out their message by putting their middle fingers up whilst dancing to the iconic Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Sway with Somebody.”

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‘Heartstopper’ star Joe Locke comes out as gay

Joe Locke, one of the stars of “Heartstopper” on Netflix, came out as homosexual in an interview with Teen Vogue. 

Locke, 19, said he has been out since he was about 12 years old, but has not felt the need to come forward publicly with it.

“People include assumed and written it, [but] I haven’t ever corrected anyone because I haven’t felt the desire to — I’ve never specifically stated my sexuality [until now],” he said. 

Locke, who plays an out gay character, Charlie Spring, in the show, explained what was truly essential to him — with all the fame and public attention that comes with stardom — was privacy, which he and his co-stars feel is difficult to come by now. He explained how it has affected his family’s lives too.

“It’s a weird guilt I sometimes feel that, by association, their lives are affected by choices in my life,” Locke said to Teen Vogue. “It’s a mutual thing. I desire to learn my boundaries and people need to learn theirs. Most attention comes from a really good place, and I hope I always recognize that.”

However, these boundaries acquire been pushed in the past, specifically with “Heartstopper