Is DC making Golden Age Green Lantern (Alan Scott) a gay man in the past?

tony ingram wrote:It seems likely now that Alan Scott is our mystery gay guy, which pretty much wraps up DC's quest to change every significant thing about the JSA and also sccessfully eliminates any last, lingering hopes that Jade and Obsidian might still exist. Terrific.

tony ingram wrote:

Lucy McGough wrote:Where'd you hear that?

BleedingCool.

Alan Scott, Green Lantern, as a Gay Man in the 1940s
(https://bleedingcool.com/comics/alan-scott-green-lantern-as-a-gay-man-in-the-1940s/)

MajorHoy wrote:Well, guess what Bleeding Cool recently ran?

Mbast1 wrote:

MajorHoy wrote:Well, guess what Bleeding Cool recently ran?

There's a VERY small hint in the GL special issue. Not even sure it is what people think. Vague.

tony ingram wrote:Really not happy about this. Why can't they just give us our characters back, without changing their established histories?

MajorHoy wrote:Mild "tweaks" would be one thing, but this ain't a "little" change.

Mbast1 wrote:

MajorHoy wrote:Mild "tweaks" would be one thing, but this ain't a "little" change.

In terms of what they're likely to do with the little they showed, I think it is small. In that it looked to be merely a hint, with no background, and I'd bet it was meant connect to the E2 version without really changing the GA version. Or, rather, the modern version of the GA version. Or whatever this is.

MajorHoy wrote:

tony ingram wrote:Really not happy about this. Why can't they just give us our characters back, without changing their established histories?

Mild "tweaks" would be one thing, but this ain't a "little" change.

As I've said elsewhere, if they want a gay hero back in the 1940s, they should revive All-Star Squadron and create one there, like they did when they gave us a black "Golden Age" hero in Amazing Man. Hell, they could even take a Golden Age hero who had very little exposure back then and have that hero replaced by a gay successor...

tony ingram wrote:That's my feeling, too. But, I guess we'll just have to wait and see how it plays out.

tony ingram wrote:Really didn't like this. It just felt forced.

MajorHoy wrote:

tony ingram wrote:Really didn't like this. It just felt forced.

I don't know if I'd used the term "forced" as opposed to "clumsily written / handled".

Then again, I've never dealt with anyone just coming out, so I'm not an authority on how these things go.

As I've said before, I'm totally not in favor of it.  I understood why they made the New52/Earth 2 Alan gay (as a nod to a no-longer-then-in-continuity Obsidian), but we have Obsidian back now.  Golden Age Green Lantern, as far as I'm aware, was not previously written/created to be gay, but then political agendas within the creative community are probably much different than they were 80+ years ago.
(And I still think Tynion is a lousy writer in general.)

tony ingram wrote:Thing is, it's all very well for them to say that this changes nothing about the character's history, but I think if Alan had actually been gay all along, it might have ben reflected in one of his thought balloons, across the decades in which thought balloons were still a thing...

MajorHoy wrote:

tony ingram wrote:Thing is, it's all very well for them to say that this changes nothing about the character's history, but I think if Alan had actually been gay all along, it might have ben reflected in one of his thought balloons, across the decades in which thought balloons were still a thing...

Not to mention what (if anything?) will happen with his wife (former wife?) Molly Mayne.

tony ingram wrote:Alan Scott and Obsidian feature in a story in the DC Pride Special. Still no mention of Molly.

MajorHoy wrote:

tony ingram wrote:Alan Scott and Obsidian feature in a story in the DC Pride Special. Still no mention of Molly.

And I wonder if they'll go out of their way not to mention her for the foreseeable future.

Any story revealing how all that played out may not be as easy to write in a way that doesn't make Alan look like a heel.

tony ingram wrote:Alan Scott and Obsidian feature in a story in the DC Pride Special. Still no mention of Molly.

Barry_Allen wrote:

tony ingram wrote:Alan Scott and Obsidian feature in a story in the DC Pride Special. Still no mention of Molly.

I didn't noticed this Dc Pride special in last months solicitations, was it solicited in Dc Connect or was it a "digital first"?

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