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!

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. 

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?

On track to being out-gayed by Marvel, DC Comics was been thrown a bone  batarang from legendary writer Grant Morrison.

In an interview published in this month's Playboy, Morrison, who has written for the Batman series since 2006, says the words we've bounced around our pretty heads since childhood: "Gayness is built into Batman."

There's yet another gay kid on the imaginery comic book block. We are so trending! Twitter, take note. After the jump, learn about Bunker, the spunky gay superhero in the relaunched Teen Titans series.

Being a mutant with superhuman abilities isn't easy, but someone's got to do it. And since the LGBT community is known for our sense of community, diversity and acceptance we will gladly take these superheroes into our beds family. Get one illustrator's take on gay superheroes and try your best not to lust after the drawings—all after the jump.