DC Comics has announced that one of its characters will soon become gay. Publisher Dan Didio revealed at a Kapow Comic Convention in London recently that the homosexual character will be a prominent one, in a move that will be sure to divide opinion.

Just weeks after President Obama announced that his opinion on gay marriage had "evolved", DC Comics Vice President Bob Wayne has said that the company's opinion on homosexuality has also gone through an evolution process.

Previously DC Comics had indicated that it would not change one of its current character's sexual orientations, instead it would create a new character to represent the LGBT community. However, it appears as though the company has now changed its mind.

Didio had previous said in a July 2011 interview with The Advocate: "One of the things we're very focused on doing for these types of stories is rather than [change an existing] character, we want to make sure that this is the basis of who that character is right from the start.

"So if we're going to introduce a gay character in Teen Titans, we want to make it a new character and make sure that is an iatrical part of who he is, or who she is, right from the start so we can really lean and grow with her or him.

"What we really wanted to do was show the diversity of our audience across the line of our books [...] Right now we have such a wide fan base and we wanted to create characters and stories that really reflected [that] fan base."

Bloggers have been debating who the character would be who would be "coming out" in the near future. A majority expect the homosexual character to be revealed as Aquaman, Wonderwoman or Robin - Batman's sidekick.

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