Quote Originally Posted by Alpha View Post
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.