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

Contents:

• DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN — BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS
• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS
• DC COMICS' GREEN LANTERN IS NOW GAY
• GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’
• GREEN LANTERN JT CAME OUT AS GAY DC CANON
• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN OUT AS GAY DC COMICS’ ‘EARTH TWO’
• GREEN LANTERN IS GAY: SO WHAT?
• THE GREEN LANTERN IS GAY!
• ‘GREEN LANTERN’ HBO MAX SERI CASTS JEREMY IRVE AS GAY SUPERHERO ALAN STT
• ‘GREEN LANTERN’: JEREMY IRVE OFFICIALLY JOS HBO MAX SERI AS GAY HERO ALAN STT
• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN IS DC'S NEW GAY CHARACTER
• HBO MAX'S GREEN LANTERN SERI WILL HAVE A GAY LEAD ITS DC SUPERHERO ENSEMBLE
• THE GREEN LANTERN IS BACK ... AND HE'S GAY
• GREEN LANTERN NOW GAY?! HOW WILL THIS CHANGE RYAN REYNOLDS' FRANCHISE?

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.

ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS

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.

DC COMICS' GREEN LANTERN IS NOW GAY

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. 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.

GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’

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.

" 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. 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!

GREEN LANTERN JT CAME OUT AS GAY DC CANON

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! 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.

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

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. 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... Robson said he cid to make the change bee makg the character young aga meant erasg Stt's gay superhero son out of existence.

GREEN LANTERN IS GAY: SO WHAT?

"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? Preview pag featurg DC Comics' new openly gay hero.

THE GREEN LANTERN IS GAY!

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.

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

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.

‘GREEN LANTERN’: JEREMY IRVE OFFICIALLY JOS HBO MAX SERI AS GAY HERO ALAN STT

In DC's Infe Frontier #0, Green Lantern Alan Stt adms to his dghter Ja and his son Obsidian that after years of hidg , he is gay. Wh the lnch of DC's Infe Frontier, Alan Stt, the first Green Lantern and -founr of the Jtice Society of Ameri, has nfirmed that he is a gay man.

He adms how difficult is to Todd, whose own backstory as a gay hero who's mataed an undisturbed relatnship allows him to provi the necsary love and enuragement. "I'm gay" says Alan Stt. His hts to Todd are a betiful reference to the former villa's backstory as a gay hero, sympathetic to his father's stggle and givg him the necsary strength to fally accept the tth and say out loud.

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

ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN IS DC'S NEW GAY CHARACTER

"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.

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. Alpha Flight #106Lookg to stir up some of that juicy publicy aga 1992, Marvel skipped the marriage route, let the tired, massive character crossover events take a break for once, and stead cid to out one of s characters as gay. This storyle appeared a year before Don't Ask, Don't Tell—the Uned Stat policy on gay men and women servg the ary—a particularly relevant piece of real world legislatn when to talkg about someone who isn't straight puttg their life on the le to save people, be they fictnal or otherwise.

HBO MAX'S GREEN LANTERN SERI WILL HAVE A GAY LEAD ITS DC SUPERHERO ENSEMBLE

At this time there was no Will & Grace puttg gay characters to the mastream and Ellen DeGener hadn't ma televisn history by g out ( character) an airport.

Comics like Frank Miller's Batman: Year One or Neil Gaiman's The Sandman were slowly breakg down the popular perceptn of ic books as purely a children's medium, but the notn of a gay hero was still one that generated plenty of k and ntroversy. Much has been ma of the parallels between the stggle for gay civil rights the real world and the fictnal portrayals of mutants fightg for equaly and steppg out of their own closet.

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

Northstar wasn't sted to be the solo gay mutant, though ls was ma of more mor players like the New Mutants' Karma beg revealed as a lbian. They live the state of New York, where gay marriage is legal both the real and ic book worlds, so why not?

The media is full of openly gay characters.

Support for gay marriage the Uned Stat has passed the 50% mark.

GREEN LANTERN NOW GAY?! HOW WILL THIS CHANGE RYAN REYNOLDS' FRANCHISE?

The print, gearg up for a tough electn fight, felt that the polil lcul was safe enough to throw his support behd gay marriage.