X-Men Podcast Gets Essay Officially Published in Marvel's Voices: Pride
Connor Goldsmith, the host of the acclaimed X-Men podcast Cerebro, has announced that an essay he wrote on the impact of Chris Claremont's LGBTQ+ subtext in the X-Men series will appear in the Marvel's Voices: Pride 2021 trade paperback set to be released this month. The X-Men have been indelibly queer-coded since the legendary Claremont began writing for the franchise in 1975, and the subtle queer representation of the X-Men has had an incalculable positive impact on the identity formation of countless closeted queer youth.
Cerebro, named after Professor Xavier's mutant-locating technology, is a weekly podcast that does deep dives into a single X-Men-affiliated character each episode, with Goldsmith digging into the character's history and impact with a different guest each week. Goldsmith is a successful literary agent who represents several writers currently associated with the X-Office and Cerebro has had a whole slew of iconic guests like Tini Howard, Ann Nocenti, Jordan White, Gerry Duggan, Mike Carey, and countless others. Some of the X-Men's greatest writers ever are guests on the podcast.
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Goldsmith announced on Twitter that he is finally able to reveal that his, "Essay on reading Chris Claremont's X-Men as a closeted gay kid in the 90s" will be published this month in Marvel's Voices: Pride 2021 TPB. Cerebro's catchphrase is, "The X-Men podcast where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of homo superior," which makes it obvious why Goldsmith would be the perfect person to write an essay for Marvel's Voices: Pride. The podcast has currently covered 77 X-Men affiliated Marvel Comics characters, Connor Goldsmith and his
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