DC fally sts gay Green Lantern — but rais new qutns |

Contents:

• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS
• DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN—BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS
• GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT, GAY WH TWO KIDS, IN DC INFE FRONTIER
• FIVE REASONS GREEN LANTERN COULD BE THE GAY DC COMICS SUPERHERO
• DC COMICS' GREEN LANTERN IS NOW GAY
• GREEN LANTERN IS GAY: DC COMICS PROMPTS BACKLASH BY OUTG SUPERHERO

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.

DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN—BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS

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. 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.

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

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. 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. 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. 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.

FIVE REASONS GREEN LANTERN COULD BE THE GAY DC COMICS SUPERHERO

'" 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. 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.

DC COMICS' GREEN LANTERN IS NOW GAY

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

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. 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.

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

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.