'Green Lantern' Seri Casts Jeremy Irve as Gay Superhero Alan Stt - Variety

Contents:

• DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN — BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS
• DC COMICS GREEN LANTERN RELNCHED AS GAY SUPERHERO
• GREEN LANTERN IS GAY
• ‘GREEN LANTERN’ HBO MAX SERI CASTS JEREMY IRVE AS GAY SUPERHERO ALAN STT
• THE GREEN LANTERN IS GAY? DC COMICS REMTS SEXUALY OF ORIGAL SUPERHERO ALAN STT

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.

"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.

DC COMICS GREEN LANTERN RELNCHED AS GAY SUPERHERO

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

For the new show, which spans s, Alan will feature the year 1941 as a secretly gay FBI agent. Irve has proven himself to be an imprsive actor, though 's hard to divorce his portrayal of a famo gay ics hero om that wily loathed movie, which he played a gay man the midst of the most well-known moment the Amerin LGBTQ rights movement. In one particular terview wh BuzzFeed, the filmmaker said, "You have to unrstand one thg: I didn't make this movie only for gay people, I ma also for straight people.

'" 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.

GREEN LANTERN IS GAY

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.

‘GREEN LANTERN’ HBO MAX SERI CASTS JEREMY IRVE AS GAY SUPERHERO ALAN STT

"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. The origal Green Lantern – a DC Comics mastay for the past 70 years – will be revealed to be a gay man next week’s issue of “Earth 2.

He’s also gay, ” “Earth 2” wrer Jam Robson told The Post. Robson said he cid to make the change bee makg the character young aga meant erasg Stt’s gay superhero son out of existence. “The only downsi of his beg young was we lose his son, Obsidian, who’s gay.

THE GREEN LANTERN IS GAY? DC COMICS REMTS SEXUALY OF ORIGAL SUPERHERO ALAN STT

So I thought, ‘Why not make Alan Stt gay?

Robson, a Brish wrer who liv San Francis wh his wife, is no stranger to gay characters – he wrote DC’s “Starman” ic the 1990s, a groundbreakg tle that starred a homosexual superhero. While a gay weddg Archie Comics earlier this year and impendg same-sex nuptials a Marvel X-Men ic have recieved a small amount of backlash om angry parents, Robson said he’s not worried about that bee “that kd of negativy is stupid and outmod. Speculatn the ics muny about which DC character would be revamped as gay was at a fever pch recent weeks, most notably at.

Sadly, looks like we won't be gettg a gay Green Lantern seri any time a part of DC's ntuo fluctuatns, was announced today that HBO Max's Green Lantern seri will swch gears and no longer be about the first Green Lantern, Alan Stt and Guy Gardner, and will stead be about John Stewart, one of DC's first Black superhero. Prevly, the seri, head by Greg Berlanti (Love, Simon), was to foc on a large group of Lanterns, cludg Gardner, and Stt, who is gay. Green Lantern is Gay: DC Comics Prompts Backlash by Outg Superhero.