Green Lantern is Gay: DC Comics Prompts Backlash by Outg Superhero

Contents:

• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS
• DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN — BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS
• DC COMICS' GREEN LANTERN IS NOW GAY
• GREEN LANTERN JT CAME OUT AS GAY DC CANON
• GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’
• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN OUT AS GAY DC COMICS’ ‘EARTH TWO’
• DC COMICS GREEN LANTERN RELNCHED AS GAY SUPERHERO
• GREEN LANTERN IS GAY: DC COMICS PROMPTS BACKLASH BY OUTG SUPERHERO
• EXPLAG WHO THE GAY GREEN LANTERN IS TO YOUR NON-COMICS-READG FRIENDS
• THE GREEN LANTERN IS GAY!
• A COMIC BOOK GETS SER ON GAY ISSU; A MAJOR CHARACTER BE A VICTIM OF A HATE CRIME
• ALAN STT: FROM GOLN AGER TO INIC GAY GREEN LANTERN
• THE GREEN LANTERN IS BACK ... AND HE'S GAY

ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS

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.

DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN — BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS

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.

DC COMICS' GREEN LANTERN IS NOW GAY

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.

GREEN LANTERN JT CAME OUT AS GAY DC CANON

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. 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.

GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’

"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. 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. "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 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.

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

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.

DC COMICS GREEN LANTERN RELNCHED AS GAY SUPERHERO

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. 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.

GREEN LANTERN IS GAY: DC COMICS PROMPTS BACKLASH BY OUTG SUPERHERO

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.

“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.

EXPLAG WHO THE GAY GREEN LANTERN IS TO YOUR NON-COMICS-READG FRIENDS

’ 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.

THE GREEN LANTERN IS GAY!

"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. The 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 Post.

A COMIC BOOK GETS SER ON GAY ISSU; A MAJOR CHARACTER BE A VICTIM OF A HATE CRIME

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?

Robson, a Brish wrer who liv San Francis wh his wife, is no stranger to gay characters – he wrote DC’s “Starman” ic the 1990s, a groundbreakg tle that starred a homosexual superhero. While a gay weddg Archie Comics earlier this year and impendg same-sex nuptials a Marvel X-Men ic have recieved a small amount of backlash om angry parents, Robson said he’s not worried about that bee “that kd of negativy is stupid and outmod. Speculatn the ics muny about which DC character would be revamped as gay was at a fever pch recent weeks, most notably at.

Green Lantern has been outed as gay by DC Comics Friday, and the rultg backlash and outrage has led many to wonr how the ic book world - and a majory of their fans, young children - will be Lantern has been outed as gay by DC Comics June 1, 2012.

ALAN STT: FROM GOLN AGER TO INIC GAY GREEN LANTERN

| (Photo: DC Comics/File)"Why do adult gay men need ic superhero as role mols? They don't but do want to doctrate imprsnable young mds by placg the gay characters on pestals a posive light, " stated One Milln Moms, a Christian-based nservative Green Lantern who fans disvered was gay is Alan Stt, the origal character om the 1940s. For him, makg the lear of the Jtice Society a homosexual was a cisn that was done "whout a moment of hatn.

""Sce we were makg Alan young aga, I thought was a shame to lose [Obsidian, Alan's son, who is gay]. When I began wrg Earth 2, I wanted the book to be as diverse as possible, " the ic book wrer told "Why don't we make Alan Stt gay?

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

Why don't we make the lear of the Jtice Society a gay man? "The announcement - which follows Marvel Comic's marriage of two of their gay characters, Northstar and his long term boyiend - has stirred up ntroversy for nservative advot. "The move was terpreted by some as an attempt to dm up media attentn the face of dismal ic book sal: sal fell over $20 ln om 2008 to 2011, acrdg to Diamond Comics was fend by Robson, however, who claimed that statistilly, havg a gay superhero only serv to reprent more of the world's populatn.

"It stands to reason, jt based on the populatn of the world, at least one member of the team is gog to be gay, " Robson said. "In rponse, nservative groups like One Milln Moms have vowed to boytt gay superhero books and enurage others to do the same. 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!

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! It’s big news that Green Lantern is now gay, but there appears to be a ltle (a lot? ) of nfn the general public over which Green Lantern is gay.