HBO's 'Green Lantern' seri sts Jeremy Irve as gay superhero

Contents:

• DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN — BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS
• HBO’S ‘GREEN LANTERN’ SERI STS JEREMY IRVE AS GAY SUPERHERO
• GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’
• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN IS DC'S NEW GAY CHARACTER
• GREEN LANTERN JT CAME OUT AS GAY DC CANON
• DC COMICS' GREEN LANTERN IS NOW GAY
• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN OUT AS GAY DC COMICS’ ‘EARTH TWO’

DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN — BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS

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.

HBO’S ‘GREEN LANTERN’ SERI STS JEREMY IRVE AS GAY 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. 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 COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’

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

ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN IS DC'S NEW GAY CHARACTER

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...

GREEN LANTERN JT CAME OUT AS GAY DC CANON

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.

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! " Berlanti is the expert the area, havg created and produced shows like Arrow, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Tans, The Flash, Superman & Lois, and Doom next year, was announced that the show wouldn't foc on jt one Green Lantern, but will feature several, cludg the origal hero to have that name, a gay man named Alan Stt.

DC COMICS' GREEN LANTERN IS NOW GAY

The forthg HBO Max seri about DC character Green Lantern has st Jeremy Irve as gay superhero Alan Stt. 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.

ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN OUT AS GAY DC COMICS’ ‘EARTH TWO’

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. Robson says he was spired to wre Stt himself as a gay character to make up for that loss.

“The logil leap that I ma was, oh, why don’t we make Alan Stt gay?, ” he says. Though Marvel Comics’ gay hero Northstar is set to face some tolerance om his peers followg his marriage to his long term boyiend the pag of Astonishg X-Men, Robson and Stt are planng on portrayg an ialized world which Alan Stt is judged only by the qualy of his character. “He don’t e out issue two; he is already a gay man, ” Robson says.

I image he’s such a Type A character that when he realized he was gay, he was like, ‘Okay, I’m gay, now I’m jt gonna go on wh my life. ’ He’s so acceptg of himself and he’s such a pellg person that the world knows Alan Stt’s gay. 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.