DC Comics Green Lantern is Mysterious Gay Character
DC Comics announced Friday that Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern will be reintroduced to readers as gay.
Publisher Dan Didio revealed at a Kapow Comic Convention in London in May that one of DC's characters was going to become gay.
Alan Scott was originally a Golden Age character created in 1940. He will appear as gay on June 6 in "EARTH 2" #2, according to DC.
While he is gay, his sexuality is "merely one part of his multi-layered character," DC Comics said today.
“I’m very proud to be introducing Alan Scott into DC COMICS-THE NEW 52,” said series writer James Robinson.
"He's still the same dynamic, heroic guy he was. He's still the head of a media empire like he was in his prior version, but of course with the form of media changing and evolving with the times."
Robinson said he decided to make Green Lantern homosexual because making the character young again meant erasing Lantern's gay superhero son Obsidian.
"By making him younger, that son was not going to exist anymore," Robinson told the Associated Press.
"So I thought, 'Why not make Alan Scott gay?" he recalled according to The Post.
This particular Green Lantern is not the Green Lantern portrayed by Ryan Reynolds in the 2011 film. Reynold's Lantern is Hal Jordan and had a girlfriend played by Blake Lively.
Green Lantern is not the first gay superhero. DC's Batwoman is lesbian and Marvel Entertainment said in May that Northstar will marry his boyfriend in "Astonighing X-Men."
Archie Comic's Kevin Keller is also gay.
