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Drink a toast to Alan Scott, Blue Snowman and Ethan Rivera in DC Pride 2025

- WORDS: STEPHEN JEWELL

WHILE PREVIOUS VOLUMES HAVE been composed of self-contained stories, DC Pride 2025 takes the form of a sequence of interconnected tales all based around an old tavern, a popular meeting place for queer characters like Green Lantern Alan Scott.

“When editor Andrea Shea first approached me about the framing story, we talked about the need for safe spaces” says writer Tim Sheridan, who is joined by artists Emilio Pilliu and Giulio Macaione. “It just so happened there was a story in the first DC Pride where Alan met his son Todd and Todd’s boyfriend at a Gotham City restaurant that was once an underground gay bar where a young Scott fell for the ill-fated love of his life, Johnny Ladd. It’s closing its doors, and that’s why some of our characters are here - to say goodbye.”