Green Lantern is Gay: DC Comics Prompts Backlash by Outg Superhero

Contents:

• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS
• DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN — BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS
• DC COMICS' GREEN LANTERN IS NOW GAY
• FIVE REASONS GREEN LANTERN COULD BE THE GAY DC COMICS SUPERHERO
• ALAN STT: FROM GOLN AGER TO INIC GAY GREEN LANTERN
• GREEN LANTERN IS GAY: DC COMICS PROMPTS BACKLASH BY OUTG SUPERHERO
• GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT, GAY WH TWO KIDS, IN DC INFE FRONTIER
• GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’
• A COMIC BOOK GETS SER ON GAY ISSU; A MAJOR CHARACTER BE A VICTIM OF A HATE CRIME
• D.C. COMICS INTRODUC GAY GREEN LANTERN
• GAY GREEN LANTERN NEWS
• EXPLAG WHO THE GAY GREEN LANTERN IS TO YOUR NON-COMICS-READG FRIENDS
• GAY GREEN LANTERN APPEARS ALTERNATE UNIVERSE
• THE GREEN LANTERN IS BACK ... AND HE'S GAY
• THE GREEN LANTERN IS GAY? DC COMICS REMTS SEXUALY OF ORIGAL SUPERHERO ALAN STT
• GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT, GAY WH TWO KIDS, IN DC INFE FRONTIER

ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS

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.

Wh his return to mastream ics ntuy, DC has nfirmed that the origal versn of Alan Stt, better known as the Goln Age Green Lantern, is now a gay man.

DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN — BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS

However, the wake of the ntuy alterg events of Flashpot and the lnch of the New 52 publishg iative, Stt was reimaged as gay, wh the loss of his boyiend even servg as one of the talysts for his transformatn to the Green Lantern. Related: DC Comics Introduc Gay And Overweight Dghter Of Starfire. While the origal Stt and his New 52 unterpart were prevly nsired entirely separate terpretatns of the same character, DC Comics has now fold the two versns to a sgle hero, retroducg the Goln Age Stt to male ntuy as a gay man.

DC COMICS' GREEN LANTERN IS NOW GAY

Invg Ja and Obsidian (himself a gay man) to the JSA Headquarters, Stt rms them that spe havg been “married a few tim to women I did love wh all my md, ” he had e to realize that “there was somethg about myself I was hidg away. “I’m gay, ” Stt bluntly reveals to his children. As Bleedg Cool also pots out, this isn't the first time Alan's queerns has been explored a DC tle (he had a boyiend and was openly gay the Earth 2 seri back 2012), but gettg to see such a heartfelt moment where Alan as a father out of the closet and explicly says the words "I'm gay" to his acceptg children is still groundbreakg, pecially nsirg how far LGBTQ+ reprentatn has e recent years the ics world!

Back October 2020, was announced that TV producer and Arrowverse mastermd Greg Berlanti would be velopg a live-actn Green Lantern seri for HBO Max that will be clive (and gay! 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.

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.

FIVE REASONS GREEN LANTERN COULD BE THE GAY DC COMICS SUPERHERO

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.

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.

ALAN STT: FROM GOLN AGER TO INIC GAY GREEN LANTERN

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.

GREEN LANTERN IS GAY: DC COMICS PROMPTS BACKLASH BY OUTG SUPERHERO

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.

However, 2015 Marvel Comics and wrer Brian Michael Bendis ma Iceman gay Unnny X-Men #600. This me after a younger versn of Iceman was ma gay Brian Michael Bendis’ All-New X-Men #40.

However, Infe Frontier #0 a story wrten by Jam Tynn IV wh art by Stephen Byrne, he out as gay.

GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT, GAY WH TWO KIDS, IN DC INFE FRONTIER

One of DC Comics olst hero is super-g 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 Emerald Guardian's sexualy was rebooted along wh the rt of his fictnal universe as part of DC's "New 52" iative aimed at rejuvenatg their On This...

GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’

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.

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

While we have had our own theori about Shazam beg a likely ndidate as the DC Comics superhero that will be re-troduced as gay, the most popular choice by far onle appears to be Alan Stt, who is the Earth 2 Green Lantern.

A COMIC BOOK GETS SER ON GAY ISSU; A MAJOR CHARACTER BE A VICTIM OF A HATE CRIME

The mors we heard about Shazam me well before was officially announced that an inic DC Comics character would be re-troduced as gay, but the Green Lantern mors apparently are g om more recent sourc, so maybe they are more valid. There are several pellg arguments as to why the gay Green Lantern theory uld be te. If no one had asked Dan Did a qutn about gay characters at Kapow, then we probably wouldn't even be readg about this story now.

Why wouldn't Earth 2 have a gay superhero? DC Comics jt lnched the first issue of Earth 2 May, and the send issue is g out June, when the storyle volvg the gay character is supposed to start. The news is also already creatg some backlash among fans bee Alan Stt was the father of Obsidian, who was a gay character the old DC Universe.

Now, 's possible that DC Comics will still fd a way to troduce Obsidian to the picture, but for now the perceptn has been that DC is tradg out one gay character wh a new gay character. DC Comics newt gay hero has been grabbg headl, but Alan Stt's long journey to inic stat has many twists and turns om Mart Noll's origal mystic engeer to his relatnship wh his gay son Obsidian.

D.C. COMICS INTRODUC GAY GREEN LANTERN

When DC Comics ma official last week that Alan Stt - the origal 1940s hero who bore the name Green Lantern -would be revented as a gay man the pag of Jam Robson and Nila Stt's "Earth 2" seri, very few were ught by surprise. Parallel to Stt's ascensn to elr statman, creators sewed seeds that Obsidian was gay, though took until the 2000s for this story to e to un at the hands of "Manhunter" wrer Marc Andreyko, "Roy Thomas gave Obsidian failed, awkward, unnsummated romanc 'Infy, Inc., ' which Gerard Jon extrapolated and danced around 'Jtice League, '" Andreyko explaed a prev CBR seri on gays superhero ics. "Th, lookg back on the character's history, gayns seems logil.

GAY GREEN LANTERN NEWS

Now, if somebody sudnly turned Wolvere gay, that is unte to the character and jt bad plottg, like when they turned the Punisher black the '90s. "I also have to tip my hat to DC for givg this ltle book all the chanc uld and for givg me the creative eedom to do the thgs I did the book, like havg the Obsidian storyle where there is a gay uple who have the healthit relatnship the book.

EXPLAG WHO THE GAY GREEN LANTERN IS TO YOUR NON-COMICS-READG FRIENDS

Alan Stt's relatnship wh his gay son was sometim awkward.

Green Lantern has been outed as gay by DC Comics Friday, and the rultg backlash and outrage has led many to wonr how the ic book world - and a majory of their fans, young children - will be Lantern has been outed as gay by DC Comics June 1, 2012. | (Photo: DC Comics/File)"Why do adult gay men need ic superhero as role mols?

GAY GREEN LANTERN APPEARS ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

They don't but do want to doctrate imprsnable young mds by placg the gay characters on pestals a posive light, " stated One Milln Moms, a Christian-based nservative Green Lantern who fans disvered was gay is Alan Stt, the origal character om the 1940s. For him, makg the lear of the Jtice Society a homosexual was a cisn that was done "whout a moment of hatn. ""Sce we were makg Alan young aga, I thought was a shame to lose [Obsidian, Alan's son, who is gay].

THE GREEN LANTERN IS BACK ... AND HE'S GAY

When I began wrg Earth 2, I wanted the book to be as diverse as possible, " the ic book wrer told "Why don't we make Alan Stt gay? Why don't we make the lear of the Jtice Society a gay man? "The announcement - which follows Marvel Comic's marriage of two of their gay characters, Northstar and his long term boyiend - has stirred up ntroversy for nservative advot.

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

"The move was terpreted by some as an attempt to dm up media attentn the face of dismal ic book sal: sal fell over $20 ln om 2008 to 2011, acrdg to Diamond Comics was fend by Robson, however, who claimed that statistilly, havg a gay superhero only serv to reprent more of the world's populatn. "It stands to reason, jt based on the populatn of the world, at least one member of the team is gog to be gay, " Robson said.

GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT, GAY WH TWO KIDS, IN DC INFE FRONTIER

"In rponse, nservative groups like One Milln Moms have vowed to boytt gay superhero books and enurage others to do the same. Bleedg Cool was the first place to report way back when May 2012, that Alan Stt would now be portrayed as a gay man. This would rema the stat of Alan Stt when he was returned to 1940s ntuy Green Lantern 80th Anniversary Special by Jam Tynn IV and Gary Frank, as a closeted gay man at a far more opprsive time.

Preview pag featurg DC Comics' new openly gay hero. In the send issue of the ic, stor June 6th, Robson and Stt prove jt how different this world is by revealg that their versn of Alan Stt, the first Green Lantern troduced back 1940, is an openly gay man. The new versns of the characters Earth Two have all been aged down nsirably, to the pot that Stt’s gay superhero son Obsidian had to be sacrificed.