It's hard to believe, but apparently there hasn't been a transgender character in a mainstream superhero comic. 

Until now. DC Comics brings the first ongoing transgender character to the mainstream in Batgirl #19, when Barbara Gordon's roommate Alysia Yeoh comes out as a transgender female.

Check it out after the jump!

Updated 2:45 p.m.

Turns out, the answer to the headline is no, at least not in this case.

After Apple was blamed today for refusing to sell the 12th issue of the graphic novel Saga, David Steinberger, CEO of the comic book app Comixology, has said his company is responsible for the kerfuffle.

We know what we're adding to our reading list! Well...what we'd be adding to our reading list if we were teens...

Nope. We totally don't spend our time reading Young Adult (YA) novels. Not at all obsessed with The Hunger Games. 

Anyway. 

Kevin Keller, the Archie comics' first openly gay character, is getting his own hardcover novel and it's taking Kevin back to his middle school years!

Details after the jump!

From managing to keep his lunch down with The Donald, to the Archie Comic world of Riverdale, George Takei is everywhere! 

The fierce LGBT advocate is headed to the pixelated pages of Archie Comics' Kevin Keller No. 6 and Takei couldn't be more thrilled. 

More after the jump. 

Rachel Berry will find yet another medium to embody and annoy thanks to an announcement made by Archie Comics ahead of Comic-Con, which starts Wednesday in San Diego. Details follow. 

This is going to be AWESOME.

Midtown Comics will host their first wedding on Wednesday, June 20.

The New York Times reports that "In honor of the release of “Astonishing X-Men No. 51,” in which the mutant superhero Northstar marries his boyfriend Kyle, Midtown Comics will present the wedding of Scott Everhart, 39, and Jason Welker, 33, a couple from Columbus, Ohio, who were selected from more than 50 applicants."

More after the jump!

You couldn't pay us to miss this.

Kathy. Chelsea. Whitney.

Let's do this.

Chelsea Handler and Whitney Cummings are Kathy Griffin's guests on tonight's Kathy.

More after the jump!

The reactionaries at "One Million" Moms were right on cue today in their condemnation of DC Comics for bringing the Green Lantern out of the closet. Also right on cue? GLAAD's adroit bitch slapping of the American Family Association subgroup. 

The tea leaves and our Santeria shrine to Oprah proved right: Alan Scott, the old (and now new again) Green Lantern has come out of the closet to become DC' new major gay male superhero. Check out the teaser panels from his coming out issue after the jump!

Yes, we're happy that DC Comic's Alan Scott (a.k.a. the original Green Lantern) will be coming out of the closet. That said, we'd have been even more enthused if Ryan Reynolds' film incarnation, Hal Jordan, was suddenly going to be playing for our team. (That's a sequel we'd green-light!)

Still, we're easing the pain with laughter.

Jimmy Kimmel gave his own take on which high-profile DC Comics character (or in this case characters) should come out with a little help from Project Runway.

Take a look after the jump!

Industry insiders have nailed down Alan Scott, a.k.a. The (original) Green Lantern, as the major character DC Comics will out as gay next month in a reboot of the series. Details follow. 

DC Comics has decided that the more Marys, the mary-er.

Though last year the major comic brand said Batwoman would be its only LGBT character for some time, over the weekend DC higher-ups announced a change of heart; another major DC character who was previously thought to be straight will come out of the closet!

But which one?