'Arrow' reveals major character is gay

Contents:

• 'ARROW' REVEALS THAT OLIVER QUEEN'S SON WILLIAM IS GAY
• ‘ARROW’ REVEALS MAJOR CHARACTER IS GAY
• ‘ARROW’ REVEALED THAT ANOTHER CENTRAL CHARACTER IS QUEER, SO EVERYONE ASSUM HE’S GAY
• OLIVER’S SON, WILLIAM, IS REVEALED TO BE GAY ON ‘ARROW’
• ‘ARROW’ DISCLOS THAT OLIVER QUEEN’S SON, WILLIAM CLAYTON, IS GAY

'ARROW' REVEALS THAT OLIVER QUEEN'S SON WILLIAM IS GAY

A major character on Arrow, the CW seri based on DC Comics superhero Green Arrow, fally nfirmed that he's gay. I'm gay, and she's my mom. ""[This] may be my favore le of dialogue ever, " tweeted Lewis, who happens to be gay is the first time that William has ed the word "gay" to scribe himself on the show, the CW nfirmed to Out.

William Clayton, the son of Oliver Queen on Arrow, was revealed to be gay last night's episo [... William Clayton, the son of Oliver Queen on Arrow, was revealed to be gay last night's episo of the h CW reveal was not played for sensatnalism or promoted ahead of time, so was easy enough to miss, but durg his heart-to-heart wh Roy Harper on Lian Yu ( the flash-forward timele), William ma a passg reference to a boyiend back Roy asks whether Felicy and Oliver have left William, he said y, jokg that his boyiend "wonrs why I have mment issu. William Clayton is a gay character om Arrow.

‘ARROW’ REVEALS MAJOR CHARACTER IS GAY

William says no disgt, sayg that he's gay, and that Felicy's his step-mom.

Some sayg the cisn to make William gay was good, while other's felt the cisn was a bad one. Some LGBT fans have had a problem wh Arrow's portrayal of LGB characters, and didn't thk that the wrers would handle William beg gay well. Sce beg revealed that he's gay, they've had no other exploratn wh this aspect of his character, which many take as proof of the predictns.

Other fans felt that him beg gay was too forced, given that 's revealed wh a random le, and didn't add anythg else.

‘ARROW’ REVEALED THAT ANOTHER CENTRAL CHARACTER IS QUEER, SO EVERYONE ASSUM HE’S GAY

Some fans see William beg gay as more of viatn om the Connor Hawke character than he already was, spe Connor not havg any signifint love terts the ics. More vrlic fans believed that there were too many gay characters already, and the change was too ph a "homosexual agenda".

Queer Character, Queer Actor - Ben Lewis, who plays olr William, intifi as Gay, and is married to actor Blake Lee. Straight Gay.

OLIVER’S SON, WILLIAM, IS REVEALED TO BE GAY ON ‘ARROW’

Sadly, that joy mt now be forever tempered by the knowledge that Koko, whose life sh so brightly om the screen, has been lost to – who, though thori say there is no evince her ath was motivated by homophobia or transphobia, is neverthels yet another victim of the eply embedd hate and vlence that hnts our culture and mak movi like this one seem so very, very prec. ” Here, durg one of the show’s new flash-forwards, Oliver Queen’s son, William (Ben Lewis), sually mentned his ex-boyiend while nversatn wh Roy Harper, who’s played by the openly gay actor Colton Hayn.

‘ARROW’ DISCLOS THAT OLIVER QUEEN’S SON, WILLIAM CLAYTON, IS GAY

News outlets like Heroic Hollywood and who picked up on this passg reference to William’s sexual inty were quick to scribe the Arrow character as gay, but the tth is that his orientatn remas unclear.

While he may ed turn out to be gay, the assumptns stantly erase the possibily that William uld be bisexual, pansexual or even intify wh another aspect of the LGBTQ spectm. Due to this lack of experience, rears and other characters alike started to speculate that the new Green Arrow was gay. While Connor and the young Green Lantern never acted on their relatnship any physil way, the homoerotic nature of their iendship was clear to the majory of queer rears.

How did Oliver know William was gay? “And my ex-boyiend wonrs why I have mment issu, ” he flashy or showy, but now we have the revelatn that William grows up to be gay or bisexual.