The “mystery” is over… it’s OFFICIAL, Earth 2′s sole Green Lantern Alan Scott is gay and has a boyfriend named Sam. This is happening, so if we want to see more inclusion on this level, LGBT comic fans (myself included) should try to get past our petty complaints about how he’s not good high profile enough or “what about his kids and wife” and embrace Alan Scott so whole-heartedly that people google “who is Hal Jordan?.” It’s bad enough that thinly veiled hate groups like inaccurately named One Million Moms are saying LGBT adults don’t need Gay Superheroes – as if we spring fully grown from nowhere. Whether or not LGBT adults need gay superheroes, LGBT kids do. There ARE LGBT kids out there who need this. Who the HELL are OMM to tell the LGBT community what we need? Lets make this Green Lantern bigger than Batwoman.
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I know many feel let down… That Alan Scott is not “A” list enough. But to those who thought Iconic meant Superman, Batman, Hal Jordan, Flash or even Superboy or Robin – that was NOT going to happen and could have caused more damage than good. It would have pissed off the straight fanboy demographic too much and given too much ammunition to the religious right hate groups. Despite some definite downsides to this direction for Alan Scott (loss of Jade and Obsidian), a gay hero in the captain’s chair (so I hear) of Earth 2′s premier super-squad, the Justice Society is still pretty damn cool. The progress in LGBT empowerment by the comics industry JUST in the 4+ years I’ve been blogging as HeroesNHunks are really amazing.
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you can’t fault Earth 2 writer James Robinson’s motivation and aside from temporarily turning Tasmanian Devil into a rug he’s been an ally. Here is his explanation for retconning Alan Scott’s sexual orientation…
In Alan’s prior version, he had been an old man with a gay son [Obsidian]. And removing that character from the DC Universe bothered me — the fact that we were taking a gay character out of circulation. And it occurred to me: Why not just make Alan Scott gay? He’s still interesting, he’s still a dynamic hero, a great man, but he happens to be gay. So I suggested that to Dan, and to his credit, there wasn’t a moment’s hesitation. He was like, “Yeah, sure, that sounds great.” So there wasn’t a huge editorial think tank; it was just an idea that got put forward and was accepted.
Below are a few more panels from Earth 2 #1. Note Alan’s eagerness to get to China (where Samuel meets him at the Hong Kong airport). I hope they don’t kill off the boyfriend as part of Alan’s requisite “inciting tragedy”.
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Hopefully at some undisclosed point in Earth 2′s future, emotionally unstable villainess Rose Canton (a.k.a. Rose & Thorn) will become sexually obsessed with Alan and capture him (her plant-based abilities could kick his ass if he is still vulnerable to wood – lets hope not, that was always stupid). Once she has him in her clutches she can take what she needs to grow twins Todd and Jennie. If Nightwing can get raped by a girl, so could Alan Scott. Or she could have been his prom date and he was a late bloomer. Then Obsidian and Jade could arrive along with the rest of their time traveling friends in Infinity Inc.
From the sound of the “magical” country vacation Alan and Sam have planned, it sounds like his origin may or may not still be centered around the mysterious mystical “green flame” that fell in ancient China and was eventually identified as the Starheart , but it won’t be related to the central power battery of an interstellar Green Lantern Corps.
via HuffingtonPost
