Scans_Daily

You're still reading his sexuality into his character when it was only revealed after the fact when the writer would, conveniently perhaps, never have to deal with it.

You can appreciate him as gay in retrospect all you like (and I share that too, since as noted, I have a soft spot for cute blond geek heroes), but I still cannot see how you can cite him as being a major gay character when the only way anyone could know that he was gay is a blog posting after the show had wrapped. No gay kid could watch the show and particularly identify with him through his sexuality unless he already had the knowledge that he was gay, which he couldn't have got.

They might as well have identified with Soul Power, we don't know if he was gay or straight either do we?

Renee Montoya is a poor example to use because she HAD been created and written as straight up until... was it NML or Gotham Central that had her come out? Her homosexuality is, essentially, a retcon. Her boyfriend died of the Clench for example, and dating men wasn't indicated as being unusual for her.