Someone Will Be Coming Out As Gay On The Arrow-verse Superhero Series

A couple of days ago we reported that US network The CW is planning an animated superhero show featuring a gay lead, with Freedom Fighters: The Ray, which will air on their online Seed platform. Now it’s been revealed that this isn’t going to be the only LGBT expansion of the DC Arrow-verse.

During a Television Critics Association panel, Greg Berlanti, producer of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, announced that a gay character is coming to at least one of those shows. “It is a significant character,” Berlanti said. “We’re not trying to be coy about it…we just really want the audience to enjoy the character development and not be ahead of the storyline.”

Rather than someone new, exec producer Andrew Kreisberg suggested that it’ll be a pre-existing character, who “Will be exploring their sexuality and coming out.”

However, they wouldn’t be drawn on which show, or which character it will be. We will have to wait and see, although there have been plenty of suggestions already.

It’s believed that openly gay Berlanti has been keen to increase LGBT representation on the shows for some time, and he’s now moving forward with that. It’ll certainly be interesting to discover which character will be coming out, and also whether it’s one of the heroes or a side character.