DC Comics ' ` ` Earth Two '' issue two shows Alan Scott , the first Green Lantern , as an openly gay man . ` ` He does n't come out in issue two ; he is already a gay man , '' ' Spider Robinson says . Scott 's sexuality is revealed to the reader in a decidedly matter - of - fact sort of way .
DC Comics ' `` Earth Two '' issue two shows Alan Scott , the first Green Lantern , as an openly gay man . `` He does n't come out in issue two ; he is already a gay man , '' writer James Robinson says . Scott 's sexuality is revealed to the reader in a decidedly matter-of-fact sort of way .