Of course, Green Lantern is not the only gay comic book hero who’s been making headlines lately. On the other side of the comic-book fence is rival Marvel Comics, which announced last week that it would be hosting its first same-sex wedding in the June 20 issue of Astonishing X-Men.
Superhero speedster Northstar (who was also the first major comic-book character to declare himself gay in 1992’s Alpha Flight #106) is tying the knot with his longtime partner, Kyle-making for comics’ first interracial, same-sex (and mutant-human) marriage.
