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Marjorie Liu, who wrote Johnny briefly during his appearance in Daken: Dark Wolverine #4, confirmed on twitter very recently that Johnny and Daken had a sexual relationship. 

Johnny’s bi/pan/polysexuality is canon now, although, probably because of the Fantastic Four’s current lack of popularity, not one sound was made about it in the media or in the Marvel fandom.

It’s not as if there’s nothing in canon itself to back up Liu’s statement. In 2005′s Spectacular Spider-Man #21, Johnny openly admits to having slept with at least one nonbinary alien: 

In Fantastic Four #563, we even find out that there’s an alternate universe version of Johnny – in which he’s the older of the Storm siblings – where he is the one who is married to Reed Richards, not Sue:

In The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics, comics scholar Ramzi Fawaz traces Johnny’s history as a queer figure all the way back to his initial appearance Fantastic Four #1, so Johnny is not only currently queer, he has always implicitly been written that way.

Sometimes the hints were subtle, like in his Fantastic Four #309 trip to Fire Island, which was, at the time it was published, a notorious gay vacation spot.

And sometimes the hints were more overt:

Maybe it’s just me, but I think that the fact that Johnny Storm, part of Marvel’s First Family and one of the founding members of the Fantastic Four, the team that is responsible for making the Marvel universe what it is today and which was once Marvel’s most popular and influential property, is officially bi/pan/poly IS A BIG DEAL. 

JOHNNY STORM, FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE FANTASTIC FOUR AND MARVEL’S FIRST FAMILY, IS OFFICIALLY BI/PAN/POLY. IT’S IMPORTANT.

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New Avengers #6 - “Happy Ever After” (2016)

Simon: Did you know?

Emily: I knew you had a secret. But when you were little you were so carefree. But these last few years more and more it’s almost like I can feel you holding your breath. I wanted to ask you about it, but I didn’t want to pry. Maybe I made a mistake.

Simon: No. No mom, you didn’t make a mistake.

I remember how scared I used to be, 21 years old and coming out to people for the first time, wondering if I’d ever find my place in the world. I particularly remember feeling so stuck - amongst straight people, amongst straight couples and their relationship highs and lows, moving from wedding to wedding basically without much hope in my heart.

And yet somehow over the years time has changed everything. My home country launched a plebiscite which saw the majority vote in favour of gay marriage and 18 months ago it became legal. Sydney, the city known colloquially as “the one with all the Asians and gays” became even more liberal with its celebrations of love in all shapes and forms. Yet I was still nervous in certain parts of town to show any side of me that could be deemed as being “too gay”.

I then discovered ACON, and what a blessing that was! Hordes of people just like me, a young gay Asian professional with a keen interest in activism, some of whom have now become my closest friends - what more could I ask for?

But the move to Canada has opened my eyes as to what a city should be like. From my point of view, whilst Sydney is ‘gay-accepting’, Toronto is definitely deserving of the term ‘gay-friendly’. My workplace has anti-discrimination posters everywhere, my older male boss didn’t bat an eyelid when I referred to my male partner, and people of all genders and sexualities walk around the city holding hands, free of judgement.

The best part now though is what I see in the new friends I’ve made - almost all the gay friends I have here are in loving, long-term committed relationships and basically don’t have to tiptoe around anyone in their community (aside from parents in some cases- but I feel like that’s unavoidable with Asians) and the ones that are single are probably so because they’re still in their early 20s.

Visiting an old Tumblr friend @migo-holic this weekend in Philadelphia, seeing his great new life, meeting his husband (he’s the first of my gay friends to have married) and two dogs seems to have driven it home - regardless of sexuality, it’s possible to live life as normally as you want, without having to apologise for anything.

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