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

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• DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN — BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS
• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS
• ‘GREEN LANTERN’ HBO MAX SERI CASTS JEREMY IRVE AS GAY SUPERHERO ALAN STT
• GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’
• DC COMICS' GREEN LANTERN IS NOW GAY
• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN OUT AS GAY DC COMICS’ ‘EARTH TWO’
• GREEN LANTERN: HBO MAX SERI INCLUS GAY HERO, INTRODUC NEW CORPS MEMBERS
• GREEN LANTERN JT CAME OUT AS GAY DC CANON

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.

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.

ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS

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

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. 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.

GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’

"RELATED: 'WandaVisn' May Have Introduced MCU's First Gay Baby Superhero. " 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. 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.

DC COMICS' GREEN LANTERN IS NOW GAY

“I’m gay, ” Stt bluntly reveals to his children. Stt was Earth’s first Green Lantern, who, te to the ics, is a gay man. 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. Robson says he was spired to wre Stt himself as a gay character to make up for that loss.

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

“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.

GREEN LANTERN: HBO MAX SERI INCLUS GAY HERO, INTRODUC NEW CORPS MEMBERS

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. 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.

GREEN LANTERN JT CAME OUT AS GAY DC CANON

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.

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

"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.