"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:
- OUT, OUT AND AWAY! RSELL TOVEY ON PLAYG A GAY SUPERHERO
- CW SEED TO LNCH ‘FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE RAY’ WH FIRST GAY SUPERHERO LEAD
- CW TRODUC FIRST SHOW WH A GAY SUPERHERO – FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE RAY
- THE RAY GIV THE CW’S NEW GAY HERO AN ANIMATED SHOWSE, BUT NOT ENOUGH SPOTLIGHT
- GAY SUPERHERO SHOW A GO AT CW SEED, ARROW-VERSE INTEGRATN EYED
- GAY SUPERHERO SERI COMG TO CW SEED
- FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE RAY TO FEATURE TV’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO LEAD
OUT, OUT AND AWAY! RSELL TOVEY ON PLAYG A GAY SUPERHERO
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CW SEED TO LNCH ‘FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE RAY’ WH FIRST GAY SUPERHERO LEAD
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This is a guy who is gay and what he’s gog through and what beg a superhero do to are you hopg the impact of this will be? On prime time TV, you’ve got two superhero that are gay kissg and who are played by gay actors — hopefully one day that will be normal.
CW TRODUC FIRST SHOW WH A GAY SUPERHERO – FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE RAY
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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.
THE RAY GIV THE CW’S NEW GAY HERO AN ANIMATED SHOWSE, BUT NOT ENOUGH SPOTLIGHT
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.
GAY SUPERHERO SHOW A GO AT CW SEED, ARROW-VERSE INTEGRATN EYED
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.
Soon enough, harrowg events fd Earth-X’s Ray (voiced by Quanti‘s Rsell Tovey) passg the baton to our own Ray Terrill — a d-mannered public tert lawyer whose biggt fight life is fdg the words to e out as gay to his parents.
TVLINE | In The Ray‘s pictn of Earth-X we see the persecutn of gays, mori and women, while on Earth-One, Ray Terrill is workg public tert law — fendg the terts of those nsired “ls than” by some. What was great about Grant’s take on The Ray is afford the opportuny to not jt get to Earth-X but do somethg we’ve never done before, which is a metahuman, gay superhero.
GAY SUPERHERO SERI COMG TO CW SEED
Terrific, and we’ve got a metahuman bad guy [Pied Piper] on The Flash, but we’ve never done a metahuman, gay superhero before. One of the wrers I work wh is gay, and he was very, very stmental craftg that scene.
FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE RAY TO FEATURE TV’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO LEAD
As a gay man, Ray was a target and out of stume, and when the Freedom Fighters fell, he end up a ncentratn mp, where he met the hero of Earth-1 and took on the mantle of The Ray once more.
He knows that he’s gay, but is aaid to act on his attractn to other men, and when his iend tri to get him to flirt, Ray shuts down and fle the scene. It might sound nfg but that’s the pot, and viewers are ught off guard jt like biggt stris for reprentatn the Arrowverse are g om the animated shows on CW Seed, wh Vixen givg this world s first black woman lead while The Ray spotlights a gay man.
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.