Origal Green Lantern out as gay DC Comics' 'Earth Two' | CNN

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• GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’
• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN OUT AS GAY DC COMICS’ ‘EARTH TWO’
• HOR HAS OFFICIALLY CHANGED 'THE GAY APP' FOREVER

GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’

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. “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.

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

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.

HOR HAS OFFICIALLY CHANGED 'THE GAY APP' FOREVER

From SNL’s Ambiguoly Gay Duo, to Adult Swim’s Harvey Birdman, to The Colbert Report’s Tek Jansen, J. DC Comics' "Earth Two" issue two shows Alan Stt, the first Green Lantern, as an openly gay man.