Ever since its started, Arrow has seemed more interested in luring in gay men and women than the young men traditionally associated with superheroes. However while the general shirtlessness has been close to gay-baiting, there’s been a severe lack of actual LGBT characters, other than the blink-and-you’ll miss it inclusion of Nyssa Al Ghul (Katrina Law) as Sara Lance’s (Caity Lotz) former lover. While Sara technically remains bisexual, we’ve only actually seen her in heterosexual situations since then.
That is perhaps surprising considering exec producer Greg Berlanti is gay himself. He’s now expanding the comic-book universe with The Flash, and he’s promised that the gay quotient will be much higher in that show.
Talking to HuffPo, Berlanti and fellow executive producer Andrew Kreisberg have said that gay DC Comics character David Singh will be a recurring character in The Flash TV universe, with Patrick Sabongui already cast in the role.They’re also promised that ‘another gay character will be introduced in the first half of Season 1 of “The Flash” — a man who already exists in the DC universe (I tried to get them to name the character, but they didn’t take the bait).’
A little bit more gay interest has been added by the casting of Wentworth Miller as Leonard Snart, aka Captain Cold.
There are big plans for Arrow too, including major crossovers with The Flash in the upcoming season. And as teased ever since Colton Haynes was introduced as Roy Harper towards the end of Season 1, he will emerge under his superhero identity, Arsenal, in Season 3. EW has debuted the first image of him looking very cool in red leather, which you can see above.
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