The Green Lantern Is Gay: Cute or Controversial?

Why do they have to keep redoing these characters to fit a special interest view? First it was turning white characters black by reintroducing them, then came the redo of Battlestar Galactica where they made the original male characters female and now they're turning a male heterosexual character gay.

They chose Alan Scott because he's been a washed up character for decades that no one's interested in so they're not doing anything here and this isn't even a major character anymore.

Look, the reason they change characters like this is they're trying to force us to accept change by changing characters that are white heterosexual males into women, blacks and gays.

Why can't they create characters who actually are black? Storm of the X-men has done well as has Spawn with neither character really even addressing their race but dealing with problems like anyone else. Then you have characters like Luke Cage who are the stereotypical angry black man... any wonder this strategy of introducing characters who are of a different race fails when they're based on stereotypes? It would be like revealing that Superman or Captain America were actually racists who lynched black people in the past... it fails because they're using negative stereotypes. Changing Nick Fury and the Kingpin into black people was safe, Marvel admitted, because these are characters which had somewhat been relegated to the dust bin.

Then you have formerly male characters reintroduced as females. Why not just reveal them as family of the original male characters and just shift the sotrylines to them instead?

Gays? So what if a superheros is gay. They have had gay characters at DC for years albeit most of them were female.

The reason they do this is they have no real grasp for how to introduce women, minorities and homosexuals / bisexuals because the people developing the characters are almost always white heterosexual males who cannot relate to these groups to create powerful counterparts.

You want a black Kingpin of Crime... kill the original and have a new black Kingpin of Crime take over. How hard is that to do?

You want a gay superhero and need to have a major character revealed as being gay... kill off Aquaman and introduce a new King of the Seas who is a homosexual. How hard is that to do?

You want storng female lead characters in what was formerly an almost entirely male cast in the strong leading roles... they're refugees from a destroyed planet, there are family members of those male characters on the Battlestar so just focus on them. How hard was that to do?

No, the reason they do this is they do not have the ability to create strong lead characters to fit these non white males they want to develop. Thus, they take established characters and change them to force us to accept them as black, female or gay.

This doesn't benefit any of these groups... it only reveals that the creators of these characters do not have the ability to create a character representing these groups without basing them on stereotypes.

Storm is successful because she's not just black, she's depicted as a human being where the creators handling her do play on her racial origins and on racial issues from time to time. But at least 95% of the time, her race doesn't matter.

That's how you create successful non white heterosexual male characters... their race, gender or sexual orientation doesn't matter except on rare occasions.

Now, had they made Hal Jordan gay at DC Comics... now that would have been something that takes guts to do because he's the Green Lantern we are familiar with as almost no one remembers Alan Scott and it's pretty gutless to have chosen him as the one claiming a "major" character when it's one everyone could care less about.