Green lantern Homosexual

[Alpha]

They are superheroes, what the hell does their sexuality have to do with fighting crime unless theyre trying to say "gay people can fight crime too!" Its absurd.

I think that is exactly what they are trying to do. Being straight, it's easy to identify with the characters in the comics, right? As a kid growing up, I never had a need for reassurance that the way I felt about girls was normal. I knew it was, because it was constantly reaffirmed, everywhere I looked. All of my heroes were like me.

I gather that a gay person growing up doesn't get that kind of reaffirmation of their normality and nature as a human. None (or very, very, few) of their heroes resembled them. They could not see themselves reflected in media. Because it is perfectly normal to be gay, it should be perfectly normal that there are comic book characters who are also gay. The fact that it warrants such a discussion in the first place is odd. The only thing I can see anyone being 'against' is that they have made an inconsequential character gay*. But even then, inconsequential characters are just as likely to be gay as important ones.

It's even harder still if you grow up transgendered, probably.

* Is this right? IDK, I don't read or care about comics at all.

[Rowan]

I think that is exactly what they are trying to do. Being straight, it's easy to identify with the characters in the comics, right? As a kid growing up, I never had a need for reassurance that the way I felt about girls was normal. I knew it was, because it was constantly reaffirmed, everywhere I looked. All of my heroes were like me.

I gather that a gay person growing up doesn't get that kind of reaffirmation of their normality and nature as a human. None (or very, very, few) of their heroes resembled them. They could not see themselves reflected in media. Because it is perfectly normal to be gay, it should be perfectly normal that there are comic book characters who are also gay. The fact that it warrants such a discussion in the first place is odd. The only thing I can see anyone being 'against' is that they have made an inconsequential character gay*. But even then, inconsequential characters are just as likely to be gay as an important one.

* Is this right? IDK, I don't read or care about comics at all.

Well I can agree with you that its normal, something that bothers me is that a lot of readers and watchers of superheroes are very young kids who have obviously not discovered their sexuality.Im assuming superheroes sexualities arnt generally discussed since it took 72 years for us to find out that lantern prefers men, but introducing sexuality in general whether it be straight or gay could be comprimising the inoccence of children. In this case its going out of the way to make it known that The green lantern is homosexual. The argument for me stands that for whatever reason they did this, it was entirely unnecassary and only to gain some sort of media attention.

[Dranzer]

That Green Lantern was Hal Jordan and is the most popular version of the character. Scott, who made his first appearance in 1940, didn't even wear the all-over green body suit and was never part of an intergalactic peace keeping corps. He wore green pants and a green cloak and wielded a strange lamp that housed mystical green flame. He was also vulnerable to wood (no sniggering).

I sniggered at this, what're they going to do about it? C'mon anyone with a remote sense of humor had to at least SMIRK at that.

If I looked like Scarlett Johansson and a guy broke up with me, I'd have to suspect him of being gay, too.

Off topic, but:

Honey, don't insult yourself, you're prettier than Scarlett Johansson will ever hope to be. She's got a narrow horse-face and has what seems to be a permanent expression similar to someone who just swallowed a gallon of prunes.

Also, I need to mail a letter to Scarlett.
Does anyone have her address?

You go, boy. You're perfect for each other, if I find out what it is or even a PO box I promise I'll give it to you.

I think that is exactly what they are trying to do. Being straight, it's easy to identify with the characters in the comics, right? As a kid growing up, I never had a need for reassurance that the way I felt about girls was normal. I knew it was, because it was constantly reaffirmed, everywhere I looked. All of my heroes were like me.

I gather that a gay person growing up doesn't get that kind of reaffirmation of their normality and nature as a human. None (or very, very, few) of their heroes resembled them. They could not see themselves reflected in media. Because it is perfectly normal to be gay, it should be perfectly normal that there are comic book characters who are also gay. The fact that it warrants such a discussion in the first place is odd. The only thing I can see anyone being 'against' is that they have made an inconsequential character gay*. But even then, inconsequential characters are just as likely to be gay as important ones.

It's even harder still if you grow up transgendered, probably.

* Is this right? IDK, I don't read or care about comics at all.

Thank you for being you and saving me the time to post a response similar to this, you're awesome. <3

Well I can agree with you that its normal, something that bothers me is that a lot of readers and watchers of superheroes are very young kids who have obviously not discovered their sexuality.Im assuming superheroes sexualities arnt generally discussed since it took 72 years for us to find out that lantern prefers men, but introducing sexuality in general whether it be straight or gay could be comprimising the inoccence of children. In this case its going out of the way to make it known that The green lantern is homosexual. The argument for me stands that for whatever reason they did this, it was entirely unnecassary and only to gain some sort of media attention.

I agree with you that gaining some sort of media attention was at least a part of the thought process behind such a revelation, but I do have a question for you: if you think that introducing sexuality in general would compromise the innocence of children, then do you think that violence (fantasy or no) depicted in said comics would be detrimental to the innocence of children as well?