Why is it that comics and movies can’t have characters of a particular sexual persuasion, and it not become an event in and of itself?  In the past year or so, DC Comics has ‘rebooted’ their entire universe, with ‘The New 52,’ which is unifying and adapting their characters for the current age, more or less.

So, according to Superherohype, one of those rebooted characters, Green Lantern, would be homosexual, though what I am wondering is why this non-event is–by some–an event at all.  There are homosexual people in reality and all over television and movies, and it’s hardly earth-shattering.

In reference to comics, if stories are well-written, and the art works with the character–as opposed to against them–then most people are going to care less about who the character has sex with.

Conversely, if the stories suck, so will the character, though it will have very little, if anything, to do with the character’s sexual preference.