DC reveals that original Green Lantern, Alan Scott, is gay in the New 52

Rumors have been spinning everywhere for the past week that DC would announce that one of their characters would be reintroduced in the New 52 as gay. These rumors appear to have been coming from a trusty source as DC announced today that the original Green Lantern (a member of the Justice Society of America), Alan Scott, will indeed be gay. In next week's Earth 2 #2, the Golden Age Green Lantern will make his change from an older, straight, mentor hero to a younger gay version who will reportedly still have his natural leadership qualities. James Robinson, a writer for DC Comics and the writer for Earth 2, feels that Scott's sexuality has no bearing to change the core of the character. Too true.

"I really believe in this idea of relaunching the Justice Society and making them younger. But I thought it was a shame that we lost Jade and Obsidian, who are Alan Scott's children. Obsidian has been in the comics for years and was a positive gay character.

And then, in the way that one idea can spring forward to the next, I thought, well, let's make Alan Scott gay. And to DC and to Dan DiDio's credit, when I ran the idea past him, there wasn't a moment's hesitation. He was like, "Yeah, that's great. Let's do it."

James Robinson gives some pretty good insight on the decision to change Alan Scott's sexuality and tells Newsarama that when we start to see more members of the Justice Society of America reintroduced in the New 52 that will will see more changes to give the team further diversity. These changes will include characters' race and gender as well. This is some very interesting news! (*You can read the whole article in the source link below)  

Source: Newsarama