Talk:Freedom Ring

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[edit] Freedom Rings?

In the trivia section it suggests that Freedom Ring may have chosen his name in reference to "Freedom Rings" used as symbols of gay pride, but when I asked Robert Kirkman, Joe Palmer of GayLeague.com and Roger B. A. Klorese of PrismComics.org [1] about it (comments I didn't include in the article because they were irrelevant), all three said they had never heard of freedom rings. Kirkman even said he might have second guessed the name had he known about freedom rings. He wanted a character that just happened to be gay, not a hero defined by his gayness. "I wanted to do a character that was treated exactly like a straight character was treated in a comic book." With that in mind, I don't think that piece of trivia fits, although it is ironic. - Kevingarcia 07:17, 5 November 2006 (UTC)