DC fally sts gay Green Lantern — but rais new qutns |

Contents:

• GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’
• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN OUT AS GAY DC COMICS’ ‘EARTH TWO’
• GREEN LANTERN REVEALED AS DC COMICS' NEW GAY CHARACTER
• ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS
• GREEN LANTERN GAY 'EARTH 2': JAM ROBSON TALKS ALAN STT
• DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN—BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS
• GREEN LANTERN OF EARTH 2 REVEALED AS GAY
• DC COMICS' GREEN LANTERN IS NOW GAY

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.

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

“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. ’ He’s so acceptg of himself and he’s such a pellg person that the world knows Alan Stt’s gay.

GREEN LANTERN REVEALED AS DC COMICS' NEW GAY CHARACTER

DC Comics' "Earth Two" issue two shows Alan Stt, the first Green Lantern, as an openly gay man. "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. Alan Stt was a young, openly gay media mogul who dited his work to the hero who gave their liv three years prr the war agast Darkseid.

Zhao never approved of Alan's relatnship wh his son he still adms that even he saw how happy Alan ma him, and that he would rather his son be gay and alive than ad and gone. 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.

ORIGAL GREEN LANTERN ALAN STT CONFIRMED AS GAY BY DC COMICS

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.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Did you always know that you wanted a gay character at the foreont of the Earth 2 seri? JAMES ROBINSON: The origal versn of Alan Stt was an olr man, and he had a superpowered son, Obsidian, who was gay. I thought was a shame that DC was losg such a posive gay character.

GREEN LANTERN GAY 'EARTH 2': JAM ROBSON TALKS ALAN STT

I said, “Why not make Alan Stt gay? And he happens to be gay. Last week, when news about Earth 2‘s Alan Stt beg homosexual h the Inter, I saw a few plats which mostly me back to one fact: That we’re talkg about a character an alternate universe who’s a rebooted versn of a character that has been outsi of the mastream ic book world for awhile now.

DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN—BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS

When I was first puttg together this versn of the team eight months ago, and was makg the team diverse and tertg, addg a gay character seemed like the natural thg to do.

Starman featured what has been referred to one of the first gay-male kiss mastream ics.

Sce that time, has bee easier to troduce a homosexual character to a superhero ic book? I want to strs that Alan Stt is a gay man, but that’s jt a part of who he is.

GREEN LANTERN OF EARTH 2 REVEALED AS GAY

And I hope that he’s a posive reprentatn of a gay man. 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. 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.

DC COMICS' GREEN LANTERN IS NOW GAY

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.