Origal Green Lantern is DC's New Gay Character - IGN

Contents:

• DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN—BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS
• ‘GREEN LANTERN’: JEREMY IRVE OFFICIALLY JOS HBO MAX SERI AS GAY HERO ALAN STT
• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN IS DC'S NEW GAY CHARACTER
• GREEN LANTERN JT CAME OUT AS GAY DC CANON

DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN—BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS

In 2012, an alternate universe versn of the character was troduced to the DC Universe who was gay and had never married a woman.

This will be the first time that the Goln Age versn of the character is nfirmed as out the ics Infe Frontier #0, wrten by out ics wrer Jam Tynn IV, where he tells his tw children, Ja and Obsidian, that he's gay. ""I'm gay, " he ntu, "I let a few of the boys the [Jtice] Society know back the day, and I've had a good al of... The show will also feature other Green Lanterns like Jsi Cz, Simon Baz, Guy Gardner, Stro, and show has already nfirmed that Stt would be gay, "te to the ics.

‘GREEN LANTERN’: JEREMY IRVE OFFICIALLY JOS HBO MAX SERI AS GAY HERO ALAN STT

"RELATED: 'WandaVisn' May Have Introduced MCU's First Gay Baby Superhero. After weeks of reports, HBO Max has officially filled the role of Alan Stt, the origal Green Lantern of Earth who me out as gay the pag of DC Comics, for the upg Lantern seri om Arrowverse archect Greg Berlanti.

More recently, he spoke on the page about his experience beg gay the issue Infe Frontier #0.

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ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN IS DC'S NEW GAY CHARACTER

'" Jeremy Irve, Green Lantern Alan Stt Jeremy Irve will play Alan Stt, DC Comics' gay Green Lantern.

Wilson/Getty Imag; DC Comics Irve's stg as Danny—and now also Alan—further speaks to the ongog nversatn still happeng Hollywood about straight actors takg on gay rol. In a 2015 terview wh DailyXtra, he was asked about how his sexualy rmed his performance as a gay man Stonewall. There were a lot of gay actors this movie, there were a lot of straight actors, but we all had to fight to get our rol.

Henry Goldg, as a straight actor who stepped to a gay role for the film Monsoon, spoke wh EW last year, regnizg that 's an "extremely layered nversatn. "It's unrstandg what the stggl have been, why there's a mp that says gay characters should only be played by gay people vers the mp that says actors should be able to mimic or bee who their character is. The producer, an out gay man who's brought some of the most proment LGBTQ pictns to the superhero TV space, has a proven track rerd when to stg that shouldn't be dismissed.

GREEN LANTERN JT CAME OUT AS GAY DC CANON

Stt is one of the higher-profile gay characters the DC Universe, although that is only a relatively recent velopment. Wh the flourishg of the multiverse ncept, he was renceived as gay, leadg a more clive movement at the publisher.

Alan Stt, Earth 2’s Green Lantern, is set to e out to rears issue out of Kapow!, headl formed across ic book media when Dan Did ma an off-hand remark at a panel about the troductn of a new gay character the DC Universe – an tablished, “inic” character that ed to be straight. "Robson explaed that the genis of Alan Stt’s homosexualy me to him at the very start of planng out the seri. He said that he realized the New 52 would be losg Obsidian – Alan Stt’s blogil son, who was actually gay himself – and so his solutn was to brg that tra to Alan.