From the Washington Post: DC Comics announced on Friday that Green Lantern, a superhero staple for decades, is gay. (And all of this time, my money was on Wonder Woman or Aquaman.) When bigotry falls, it often falls fast — gay marriage, Barack Obama as the first gay president and now popular superheroes like Green Lantern.
Green Lantern is the name of multiple superheroes who possess a green power ring. Over the past 70 years, there have been several Green Lanterns with various names. The original Green Lantern was Alan Scott who was introduced during World War II. The best-known Green Lantern is Hal Jordan, who was portrayed by Ryan Reynolds in the 2011 movie. Jordan emerged in the late 1950s after DC Comics stopped publishing the original series about Scott.
To be clear, because it matters to comic geeks, it’s Scott, not Jordan, a founding member of the Justice League, who is gay. In previous incarnations, Scott had a gay son. But in the new comic series, Green Lantern is young again, without children, and his past has been entirely rebooted. Full article here.
