DC's Latt Gay Superhero Officially Unveiled

Contents:

• GREEN LANTERN JT CAME OUT AS GAY DC CANON
• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS
• DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN — BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS
• ALAN STT: FROM GOLN AGER TO INIC GAY GREEN LANTERN
• DC'S LATT GAY SUPERHERO OFFICIALLY UNVEILED
• DC’S FIRST GREEN LANTERN OFFICIALLY ADMS TO HIS CHILDREN THAT HE IS GAY
• GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT, GAY WH TWO KIDS, IN DC INFE FRONTIER
• GREEN LANTERN’S REBOOTED SEXUALITY: ALAN STT? YEP, HE’S GAY [UPDATED]
• GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT, GAY WH TWO KIDS, IN DC INFE FRONTIER
• COMICS CORNER – INFE FRONTIER TABLISH DC’S GAY PAST AND QUEER FUTURE

GREEN LANTERN JT CAME OUT AS GAY DC CANON

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. 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.

ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS

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.

DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN — BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS

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.

ALAN STT: FROM GOLN AGER TO INIC GAY GREEN LANTERN

'" 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.

DC'S LATT GAY SUPERHERO OFFICIALLY UNVEILED

In 2012, an alternate universe versn of the character was troduced to the DC Universe who was gay and had never married a woman.

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

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 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.

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

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

"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. In DC Pri, Midnighter teams up wh the wizard Extraño, DC’s first openly gay superhero, as the mage himself reunts the affair to DC’s premiere disaster bisexual John Constante.

But Rice would eventually learn he wasn’t the only gay man his fay. In the New 52, Alan Stt was rewrten as a gay man, and a central figure to the Earth-2 le of ics set jt next door to mastream ntuy.

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

Alan Stt and his fay have only recently been retegrated to Prime Earth, and his story as an openly gay elr statman of the superhero muny and father of two is jt now beg told.

Hartley Rathaway wasn’t the first openly gay supervilla DC history—no, that distctn go to Monsir Mallah and the Bra, enemi of the Doom Patrol—but he was the first of many to embrace his inty as he pursued a more heroic streak. Though had been all-but-revealed for some time now, DC today officially nfirmed the inty of s latt gay superhero: Alan Stt, the origal Green Lantern. He's also gay, " DC wrer Jam Robson told the New York part of the ongog relnch of all DC monthly superhero tl, dubbed the New 52, Stt was rebooted as a younger, more mornly handsome versn of his Goln Age unterpart.

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

"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? In fact, he never formally out as gay. "He's gay when we see him issue two, " Robson told the Associated Prs.

"He's fearls and he's hont to the pot where he realized he was gay and he said 'I'm gay'.

COMICS CORNER – INFE FRONTIER TABLISH DC’S GAY PAST AND QUEER FUTURE

"Prentg that kd of a heroic role mol hopefully will be a good thg and help to show gays a posive light for people who might be a ltle more small-md.