Andrew Garfield Asks: Why Can’t Spidey Be Gay?

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While there have been gay superheros in comics for years, starting with Marvel’s subtly gay Northstar back in the 1980s, there hasn’t been an openly gay superhero in the movies yet. And considering The Amazing Spider-Man was about as interesting as a math test, Andrew Garfield has come out (pun intended) and asked the question that probably wouldn’t have been asked just five years ago: Why can’t Spidey be gay?

In an interview with EW, Garfield had this to say about the famed hero’s sexuality:

Recently, he says, he had a philosophical discussion with producer Matt Tolmach about Mary Jane or “MJ” to fans. “I was kind of joking, but kind of not joking about MJ,” he tells EW. “And I was like, ‘What if MJ is a dude?’ Why can’t we discover that Peter is exploring his sexuality?  It’s hardly even groundbreaking!…So why can’t he be gay? Why can’t he be into boys?”

He even went on to declare his man-crush for Michael B. Jordan, who stars in the upcoming indie Fruitvale Station:

“I’ve been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He’s so charismatic and talented. It’d be even better—we’d have interracial bisexuality!”

While watching Garfield and Jordan makeout would increase the likelihood that I’ll see The Amazing Spider-Man 2 by about 100 times, it’s probably not going to happen. Unless you count Peter Parker and Harry Osbourne’s coded love story in Spider-Man 3, then it already has.

Source: CBM