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I remember when Batwoman beme the pany’s first gay character to headle a book 2009, and Midnighter beme DC’s first solo seri for a gay man 2015, and the long stretch of the 2010s when Wonr Woman, and Harley Qun, and Poison Ivy, and John Constante were fally allowed to be irrevobly queer. The Authory is one of the newly announced DCU movie projects, likely brgg to the big screen well-known gay versns of Superman and Batman. Some of the first openly gay characters ics, their dynamic will likely be a huge paradigm shift the DCU movi.
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Greg Berlanti, who produced The CW's Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightng and Batwoman, relat Superpowered how the 1990 The Flash TV show particular spired him as a gay youth. "He was a young gay boy watchg The Flash and felt a nnectn to the characters who had a secret or who had a secret life, " Iwerks said. And sce, at the time, he’d temporarily taken over as Superman while his father was off-world, generated headl about Superman beg gay.