I'm sure CWTV could weather any outrage considering they've done pretty well with LGBTQ representation in their other shows - two lesbian Batwomans (Batwomen?) plus other characters on the show, a trans superheroine (played by a trans actress) on Supergirl, two main female characters who are lesbian and bi on Legends are in a relationship, and the character of Constantine is bi and has been shown in relationships with both men and women and gave a pretty good impassioned speech about it. The character is taking a break from the show, but they brought the actor back in another role as the original inventor of time travel who invented it to save the man he loved who died in WWI. Oh, Captain Cold was gay - or at least an alternate universe version of him was gay, and he was in a relationship with another male hero in that universe, and the actor is gay. An alternate version of some characters on Flash and Legends were in a relationship. One of the super-powered daughters of Black Lightning is lesbian. I'm probably missing some. Can't remember anything from Arrow, but that show ended a few years back, and my memory is fading.
Y'know, I never stopped to think about all these characters at once. I'm a cis-male who's obviously a comic book geek, and admittedly these shows are not the height of good acting/story-telling, but I still watch them because of my geekosity. I wonder what it would take to convince CW to do a cross-over where it's just the LGBTQ characters to freak out conservatives?
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