I was giving this a lot of thought. I understand how everyone says that the Xmen are metaphors for discrimination because you can lump them into any group. You are Black? The Xmen speak to you. You are gay the Xmen speak to you.

But my question is does it take away from the metaphor or does the metaphor not hold up as well when pretty much every major Xmen character is white?

I am not up on the last ten years or so of Xmen so Maybe this has changed. When I hear people talk about black characters in the X world it is always Bishop or Storm. Gay characters? Northstar who is not a major character and Ice Man.

So like I ask does the metaphor still hold up today?

If I am wrong on this please tell me who some of the other major characters are that are POC or Gay.