"Freedom Fighters: The Ray," an animated seri wh a gay superhero as the leadg character, is g to digal channel CW Seed next year.
Contents:
- CW TRODUC FIRST SHOW WH A GAY SUPERHERO – FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE RAY
- CW SEED TO LNCH ‘FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE RAY’ WH FIRST GAY SUPERHERO LEAD
- GAY SUPERHERO SERI COMG TO CW SEED
- GAY SUPERHERO SHOW A GO AT CW SEED, ARROW-VERSE INTEGRATN EYED
CW TRODUC FIRST SHOW WH A GAY SUPERHERO – FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE RAY
* gay freedom fighters *
The term “transgenr” wasn’t monly ed Marsha’s lifetime, but she intified as a “transvte, ” gay and a drag queen and ed she/her pronouns. The clash wh the New York police marked a turng pot for the gay liberatn movement the US and spired Pri march around the world today.
Johnson worked as an activist participatg monstratns and march as part of the Gay Liberatn Front, which formed the wake of Stonewall. Harvey Milk was one of the first openly gay policians elected to office the Uned Stat, and the first openly gay official elected California. “We want gays to reprent gays, ” Milk told the San Francis Examer 1977, and his posn as an LGBTQ public official helped brg the muny’s issu to promence.
While servg as a cy supervisor, he troduced legislatn to protect the gay muny, cludg a gay rights ordance 1978 to ban discrimatn agast LGBTQ hog or employment. He and other activists also succeed strikg down Proposn 6, which would have mandated the firg of any gay or lbian teachers California. He was one of the first to sound the alarm for the HIV/AIDS crisis 1981 when the New York Tim wrote about a rare type of “ncer” affectg gay men.
CW SEED TO LNCH ‘FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE RAY’ WH FIRST GAY SUPERHERO LEAD
Kramer -found the advocy groups GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis) and ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power), which ed the inic SILENCE = DEATH logo that beme a symbol for the AIDS crisis. His ntributns to the LGBTQ muny boil down to the impact he ma as a pneer drag, and how “Drag Race” drastilly changed the way lns of Amerins view — and appreciate — a key facet of gay culture. The CW has beat Marvel and DC’s big-screen film univers to troduce a gay lead the work’s Televisn Crics Associatn panel on Thursday Los Angel, the channel revealed that s sister streamg se, CW Seed, will premiere a new animated show, Freedom Fighters: The Ray, centered on the Ray, a gay DC Comics the ics, Raymond “Ray” Terill is a reporter gifted wh light-based powers, after beg exposed to a “geic light bomb” while workg on a story.
TV’s first leadg gay superhero is g next year to CW Seed. The CW’s digal streamg service has announced plans to lnch “Freedom Fighters: The Ray, ” featurg the first gay superhero to headle a show an animated seri, next year. The Ray is gay, Doll Man is Jewish, and Black Condor is Ain Amerin.
Berlanti, who is openly gay, has been steadily addg gay superhero to his imprsive roster of shows.
GAY SUPERHERO SERI COMG TO CW SEED
In 2015, “Arrow” troduced Curtis Holt (Echo Kellum) who is gay and married. Ltle by ltle, Berlanti has opened up the DC-Universe to clu LGBTQ characters, which paved the way for “Freedom Fighters: The Ray, ” the first show wh a tular gay superhero character. " The seri, which will be executive produced by Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim, will have a gay superhero as s lead on DC Comics characters, "Freedom Fighters: The Ray" follows Raymond "Ray" Terrill, a journalist who stumbl upon a plot by ernment scientists to make a weapon of mass stctn g light.
GAY SUPERHERO SHOW A GO AT CW SEED, ARROW-VERSE INTEGRATN EYED
Echo Kellum plays gay superhero Mr. The Ray, a gay DC Comics superhero, will be the lead character of CW Seed’s animated Freedom Fighters: The Ray, the work announced Thursday.