Editing Northstar (character) (section)

===1994–present===
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[[File:5.30.19MarjorieLiuByLuigiNovi68.jpg|thumb|left|Writer [[Marjorie Liu]] autographing a copy of ''[[Astonishing X-Men]]'' #51 (August 2012), in which Northstar marries Kyle Jinadu, the first same-sex wedding in mainstream comics]]
After the 1994 cancellation of ''Alpha Flight'', Northstar starred in an eponymous four issue limited series.<ref>''Northstar'' #1–4 (April–July 1994)</ref> In 1997, a second on-going series of ''Alpha Flight'' was initiated. Northstar was not a member of this group, but appeared in later issues searching for his missing sister Aurora. He featured in eight issues before the series cancellation with issue #20.

In 2005, Marvel killed Northstar in three separate [[continuity (fiction)|continuities]] within the space of one calendar month. Between February 16 and March 9, 2005, versions of Northstar were killed in the [[Earth-616]]-based ''Wolverine'' #25, and in ''[[Age of Apocalypse|X-Men: Age of Apocalypse]]'' and ''[[X-Men: The End]]'', which were set in [[alternate timeline]]s.<ref>Film producer [[Perry Moore]] was so angered by the death of Marvel's most prominent gay superhero at the hands of one of its most popular superheroes that he wrote the novel ''[[Hero (novel)|Hero]]''—about a gay teenage superhero—to present a more positive image of gay superheroes to readers. See: {{cite news |first=George Gene |last=Gustines |title=A Novelist's Superhero Is Out to Right Wrongs |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 3, 2007 }}</ref> Northstar did not stay dead long in Marvel's primary continuity, as he is resurrected in ''Wolverine'' #26.

When Northstar rejoined the X-Men as a regular member in 2002, writers were less hesitant to address his sexual orientation. Northstar even experienced a crush on long-time X-Man [[Iceman (Marvel Comics)|Iceman]], though it was unrequited.<ref>{{Cite comic |writer=[[Chuck Austen]] |penciller=[[Sean Phillips]] |story=Secrets |title=[[Uncanny X-Men]] |volume=1 |issue=415 |date=January 2003 |publisher=Marvel Comics }}</ref> One of his students in the Alpha Squadron, Victor Borkowski, the gay mutant [[Anole (character)|Anole]], looks up to him as a role model.<ref>{{citation |last=Masaki |first=Lyle |title=The new "X-Men" series has two gay characters ... will it amount to anything? |url=http://www.afterelton.com/blog/lylemasaki/young-xmen-two-gay-characters-will-it-amount-to-anything? |work=[[AfterElton.com]] |access-date=March 29, 2009}}</ref><ref name="Anole">{{Citation |title=New X-Men: Academy X Vol. 3: X-Posed |author=Nunzio, DePhilippis |author2=Christina Weir |publisher=Marvel Publishing |location=New York |isbn=978-0-7851-1791-9 |year=2005}}</ref>  When Northstar rejoined the X-Men yet again in 2009, he was revealed to be in a relationship with his sports company's events manager Kyle.<ref>''The Uncanny X-Men'' #509</ref> Their relationship faces strain from the remaining mutants' exodus to the mutant island Utopia, though the two agree to work through their issues.<ref>''Nation X'' #2</ref> It was later implied that he also had a sexual relationship with [[Hercules (Marvel Comics)|Hercules]] at an unspecified point in time.<ref>{{Cite comic |writer=[[Greg Pak]], [[Jeff Parker (comics)|Jeff Parker]], [[Fred Van Lente]] |penciller=Reilly Brown, [[Ariel Olivetti]] |inker=Chris Carroll |title=Hercules: Fall of an Avenger |volume= |issue=#1 |date=March 2010 |publisher=Marvel Comics }}</ref>

Northstar and Kyle's marriage in issue #51 of ''Astonishing X-Men'', drew attention from the right-wing group [[One Million Moms]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.pinkpaper.com/NewsStory/7428/26/05/2012/one-million-mums-targets-marvel-and-dc-comics.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601103344/http://news.pinkpaper.com/NewsStory/7428/26/05/2012/one-million-mums-targets-marvel-and-dc-comics.aspx |title=One Million Mums targets Marvel and DC comics |first=Stacey |last=Cosens |work=[[Pink Paper]] |date=June 1, 2012 |archive-date=June 1, 2012 |access-date=January 1, 2014 }}</ref>