GREEN LANTERN’s REBOOTED SEXUALITY: Alan Stt? Yep, he’s gay [Updated] - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS
• GREEN LANTERN JT CAME OUT AS GAY DC CANON
• GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT IS GAY — AND A GOOD KISSER
• ALAN STT: FROM GOLN AGER TO INIC GAY GREEN LANTERN
• GREEN LANTERN’S REBOOTED SEXUALITY: ALAN STT? YEP, HE’S GAY [UPDATED]
• GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT, GAY WH TWO KIDS, IN DC INFE FRONTIER
• DC’S FIRST GREEN LANTERN OFFICIALLY ADMS TO HIS CHILDREN THAT HE IS GAY
• DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN — BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS
• HEY ALAN STT! WELE TO THE GEEK GAY-BORHOOD!
• GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’
• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN OUT AS GAY DC COMICS’ ‘EARTH TWO’
• THE GREEN LANTERN IS GAY!
• ‘GREEN LANTERN’ HBO MAX SERI CASTS JEREMY IRVE AS GAY SUPERHERO ALAN STT
• IS THE DCU ALAN STT A GAY GREEN LANTERN THE 1940S? JTICE LEAGUE #32 SUGGTS SO… (SPOILERS)

ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS

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. 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.

GREEN LANTERN JT CAME OUT AS GAY DC CANON

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. What is your opn about Alan Stt beg gay DC Comics?

GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT IS GAY — AND A GOOD KISSER

Green Lantern Alan Stt Is Gay — And A Good KisserBehold the first same-sex kiss between the newly rebooted (and newly outed) superhero and his may not be gettg his own People magaze ver clarg to the world, but Alan Stt (AKA the Green Lantern) is officially g out of the closet.

He’s also gay. ”Intertgly enough, Alan’s son Obsidian was gay, but the rebootg of Alan’s character as a young man means erasg the existence of Alan’s children altogether. “So I thought, ‘Why not make Alan Stt gay?

ALAN STT: FROM GOLN AGER TO INIC GAY GREEN LANTERN

DC Comics newt gay hero has been grabbg headl, but Alan Stt's long journey to inic stat has many twists and turns om Mart Noll's origal mystic engeer to his relatnship wh his gay son Obsidian.

When DC Comics ma official last week that Alan Stt - the origal 1940s hero who bore the name Green Lantern -would be revented as a gay man the pag of Jam Robson and Nila Stt's "Earth 2" seri, very few were ught by surprise. Parallel to Stt's ascensn to elr statman, creators sewed seeds that Obsidian was gay, though took until the 2000s for this story to e to un at the hands of "Manhunter" wrer Marc Andreyko, "Roy Thomas gave Obsidian failed, awkward, unnsummated romanc 'Infy, Inc., ' which Gerard Jon extrapolated and danced around 'Jtice League, '" Andreyko explaed a prev CBR seri on gays superhero ics.

"Th, lookg back on the character's history, gayns seems logil.

GREEN LANTERN’S REBOOTED SEXUALITY: ALAN STT? YEP, HE’S GAY [UPDATED]

Now, if somebody sudnly turned Wolvere gay, that is unte to the character and jt bad plottg, like when they turned the Punisher black the '90s.

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

"I also have to tip my hat to DC for givg this ltle book all the chanc uld and for givg me the creative eedom to do the thgs I did the book, like havg the Obsidian storyle where there is a gay uple who have the healthit relatnship the book.

Alan Stt's relatnship wh his gay son was sometim awkward. Ics nventn that a "major" DC character would be g out on the upg pag of the superhero's books, beg "one of our most proment gay characters. " Now, the immediate wake of Marvel announcg that s first gay superhero (Northstar) is gettg hched, DC has untered wh s nfirmatn:The origal Green Lantern?

”Robson — who troduced a gay superhero the '90s seri Starman — not that this creative choice meant rewrg all rerd of a younger Alan Stt's spawn — cludg his gay superhero son mercial terms, the dtry will be watchg closely to see whether DC or Marvel’s recent announcements and edorial cisns regardg gay superhero help spike Jordan, of urse, is the morn-day Green Lantern (Ryan Reynolds played the straight tt pilot-turned-Emerald-superhero last year’s film that fizzled at the box office), but Stt is the only power-rged Green Lantern “Earth 2. 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.

DC’S FIRST GREEN LANTERN OFFICIALLY ADMS TO HIS CHILDREN THAT HE IS GAY

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.

DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN — BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS

""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. Am I the only one a ltle offend they ma Alan Stt gay? I feel like they jt chose to make him gay bee they n say "we ma green lantern gay" and get brownie pots, when 's the green lantern most people don't re about.

HEY ALAN STT! WELE TO THE GEEK GAY-BORHOOD!

The character has been intified and nfirmed as gay back May 2012. Durg the ntuy, the character was released the Jam Tynn IV and Gary Frank's Green Lantern 80th Anniversary Special as a closeted gay man, livg a far more opprsive perd of was announced that Alan Stt will not return to the ma DC universe le.

GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’

Alan go on to tell his kids that he is gay. His dghter Ja immediately hugs publitn of DC's Infe Frontier #0 has once aga nfirmed and addrsed Alan Stt as a gay man. A story the Green Lantern 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular impli that this Earth-Prime DC character may be gay.

This versn of the Goln Age superhero was gay, reprentg an crease LGBTQ reprentatn at DC. In the Green Lantern 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular story "Dark Thgs Cannot Stand the Light, " released this week, the recently retroduced Earth-Prime Alan Stt is also implied to be gay.

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

Among them is Alan Stt: On this Earth, he is a young executive wh GBC Productns, and an openly gay man. Although never overtly stat Alan's sexualy, "Dark Thgs Cannot Stand the Light" clearly hts that Alan Stt is still a gay man -- or at the very least, attracted to men -- his new Earth-Prime rnatn. 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.

THE GREEN LANTERN IS GAY!

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’ 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.

Knowg that he is one of the olt and most outspoken creators out there, I asked Brian to offer his two cents on Alan Stt and what means to him as a gay man, and what uld mean GLBT ic book fans everywhere:**********The Big GAY Deal That Wasn't -Much rabow nfetti has been thrown sky high of late honor of DC Comics recent cisn to make one of their send-tier (more like *ugh* 45th-tier) characters an out, proud, gay man. Beg an out, proud, gay man myself – one who lov and has read ics for almost 30 years and who also cheerfully creat his own die le of gay-themed ics aimed at anyone and everyone – I uldn't be happier and more thankful to more we GLBTers have a prence mastream pop culture, whether TV, movi or our beloved ic books, the more we have a voice and the closer we get to wi spread acceptance. Not to go all red, whe & blue and ialistic on your rear ends, but every mory serv to have a voice; to see their stori told our entertament and to be rpected and treated wh digny, regardls of a person's fundamental, God-fearg feelg towards that I may be pretty stoked about Alan Stt's big gay outg I have to be hont; this isn't que as HUGE a al as the ters, bloggers, 24 hr news channels and hateful bigots (what's up One Milln Moms?

IS THE DCU ALAN STT A GAY GREEN LANTERN THE 1940S? JTICE LEAGUE #32 SUGGTS SO… (SPOILERS)

" Welp, the fact that the new gay the DCU is ar-old Alan Stt aka the-Green-Lantern-that-no-non-ic-book-rear-knows-about-and-get's-nfed-for-Hal-Jordan-and-Ryan-Reynolds only serv to mimize the whole Ka-Pow factor of the announcement. Sure havg a Green Lantern as a member of the ever growg ic book homo squad is pretty fabulo but if DC really wanted to be darg and give the world a universe fg, culture changg gay character they uld have - and should have - gone would have been Batman, Superman, Aquaman or hell, Plastic Man, then I would have happily danced the gay jig of joy and joed on the huge DEAL that has been ma of this announcement.

Jt image if DC would have had the jon to have ma their inic, wily regnized Green Lantern gay, the one who actually rri his own solo tle, the one that any laymen uld fger a police le up or on a cereal box. ) watchg dad the history behd Alan Stt and how he was created practilly eons ago durg the Nazi World War; and how he ed to be old, was straight, had two kids, one of which was gay himself; but is now actually a brand new young character an alternative dimensnal Earth where Superman, Batman and Wonr Woman are the 'olr hero" who have died; and that the recently rebooted DC 52 where the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern liv on is an entirely different place, but I lost him at Ow a Muff Basket (or two) to Marvel ComicsThe realy is that Alan Stt beg gay is no more newsworthy then the Teen Tans havg their first gay member the sassy, cute Bunker. So while I feel s super eakg awome and credible to have Alan Stt jo the ic book gayborhood - and beg drawn by non-other than the sensatnal Nila Stt (who's art I worship and hug close to me at night while I sleep) don't hurt eher - 's really not the ic book fg moment that the media has proclaimed to be.