Leo/Ray was the first time in all ofcomic book live action history that two out actors have played two gay male superheroes and kissed on camera.
At a con last month during his panel, Wentworth Miller cited it as his top moment in his entire time spent in the Arrowverse. Prior to this, he had really, really wanted to play a queer-presenting character on the shows for years. ColdRay is the only romantic Arrowverse ship for any of his characters that Wentworth has everexplicitly mentioned as liking and being proud of. Note that he had already filmed the upcoming LOT episode when he said all this.
Leo/Ray are the only m/m committed couple comprised of main characters in the entire Arrowverse. They’re mutually supportive and openly loving and fiercely ride-or-die in love. Russell Tovey and Greg Berlanti have both repeatedly said Leo/Ray is endgame and THE major romance storyline of Freedom Fighters: The Ray.
They’re everything anyone could hope for in a m/m ship, and it is critically important that Arrowverse fans show support for the ship to the network and production team, so we can see more of them and others like them.
So can we, as a fandom, collectively dial down the relentless fetishizing of one half of them to death every time he smiles at, looks in the direction of or speaks to another character, and just celebrate two queer men being happy together on camera for 5 minutes?
