Originally Posted by
Tiamatty
Sure. That explains why some black people would see homosexuality as emasculating. It does not, however, explain why someone who has no problem with homosexuality would see one gay male character as being emasculating. There are still other straight black male characters current appearing in various books. Black Panther is arguably the main character in New Avengers. Luke Cage is a main character in Mighty Avengers (and he's even got a wife and kid). Falcon is technically in Avengers, is in Mighty Avengers, and has gotten a spotlight issue of World. Mighty also has Blade, Blue Marvel and Power Man. Avengers has Sunspot, Manifold and Nightmask. Uncanny X-Men has Triage. There's the Iron Patriot mini right now.
So while there are, admittedly, still pathetically few books featuring black male characters, I don't think the existence of a single LGBT black male character should really be that objectionable.