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

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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. 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.

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Alan Stt is the Green Lantern of Earth 2. After nearly dyg a tra crash, Alan was given the power of The Green, to fight the threat of The Grey. Alan Stt was a young, openly gay media mogul who dited his work to the hero who gave their liv three years prr the war agast... * earth 2 green lantern gay *

“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. DC Comics' "Earth Two" issue two shows Alan Stt, the first Green Lantern, as an openly gay man.

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"He don't e out issue two; he is already a gay man, " wrer Jam Robson says. In the send issue of the ic, stor June 6, 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 ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS

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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. Alan Stt was a young, openly gay media mogul who dited his work to the hero who gave their liv three years prr the war agast Darkseid. Zhao never approved of Alan's relatnship wh his son he still adms that even he saw how happy Alan ma him, and that he would rather his son be gay and alive than ad and gone.

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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.

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. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Did you always know that you wanted a gay character at the foreont of the Earth 2 seri?

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JAMES ROBINSON: The origal versn of Alan Stt was an olr man, and he had a superpowered son, Obsidian, who was gay. I thought was a shame that DC was losg such a posive gay character.

I said, “Why not make Alan Stt gay?

GREEN LANTERN OF EARTH 2 REVEALED AS GAY

And he happens to be gay. Last week, when news about Earth 2‘s Alan Stt beg homosexual h the Inter, I saw a few plats which mostly me back to one fact: That we’re talkg about a character an alternate universe who’s a rebooted versn of a character that has been outsi of the mastream ic book world for awhile now. When I was first puttg together this versn of the team eight months ago, and was makg the team diverse and tertg, addg a gay character seemed like the natural thg to do.

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Starman featured what has been referred to one of the first gay-male kiss mastream ics.

Sce that time, has bee easier to troduce a homosexual character to a superhero ic book?

I want to strs that Alan Stt is a gay man, but that’s jt a part of who he is. And I hope that he’s a posive reprentatn of a gay man.

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