The Recent Spark of Gay Characters in Comics

Last week DC Comics announced they were making one of their main characters in their new reboot gay, the then 'came out' and said it was going to be Green Lantern. This of course sent the internet a buzz and those who know nothing about comics all in a tizzy that Ryan Reynolds character in Green Lantern is now gay. 


However just like I did there, the teasing that a real main stream character like Hal Jordan, Green Lantern of space sector 2814 would now be a gay man is not the case. The gay green lantern will be Alan Scott, the Green Lantern of Earth 2 who is actually not even a green lantern. Sure he's accessorizing with his green power ring but its nothing like Hal's or any of the other thousands of green lanterns that make up the Green Lantern Corps.