Maybe they're finally going to have Sinestro come out and admit that he's gay for Hal.  

Seriously, though, I'd imagine this will follow the same arc as what happened with the new Batwoman:

- DC issues press releases to everyone who'll listen announcing that they're going to have a new, gay, high-profile, gay character who is going to be high-profile and gay. Very, very gay.
- The character will get a decent amount of exposure for awhile, but then fade into the background a bit once DC realizes that they don't have a clear long-term plan for the character after the initial "holy crap, this character is gay" hype blows over.
- Someone with a clear idea what to do with the character will take the reins and give said character a decent level of popularity, but nothing spectacular (like Batwoman). Or...
- The character disappears until it's time to kill someone during the next Crisis.

 

Come on Wonder Woman or Power Girl!

 

Big money No whammies big money no whammies!

 

I figure
Dan Garrett, Golden Age Blue Beetle
Atom (not sure which version)
Lex Luthor
Max Lord
Obsidian (wait, he's already confirmed to be gay)
Clayface

 

With my luck, it'll be Raven...

 

...that would explain his creepy shrine of Superboy from his origin.

 

I would like it to be a two-fer of Red Robin and Superboy. Their relationship was very, very close pre-new 52, and it would be one of the few relationships I could read and go "Huh, I can see that."

Alfred would be another strong pick because his personal history outside of the Wayne family is pretty sparse. But, a gay butler just screams Woodhouse from Archer.

Really, with James Robinson doing Earth-2, I'd put money down that it's E2 Batman or Wonder Woman. DC would never let them touch Superman, but it would be a big promo for the new E2 comic to have one of the "Big Three" come out. Plus, that way when they get push back from certain groups, DC can pull the "Don't worry, it's only in the alternate universe!"

 

The sexual orientation of a comic book character matters to me as much as a real person's. So not at all.

This is just a marketing ploy. I wonder if their announcement isn't some lame play on words and their "iconic" character is Icon.

 

Well, considering that they're a) both dead, b) have already appeared, c) Wonder Woman isn't a man (and the new gay character has been confirmed to be male) and d) that Batman had a daughter (and presumably a cat-loving wife) I find that unlikely to be the case.

I think it may be helpful to list out the things we know about this character. Because I'm a mean person and want to take the fun out of wild mass speculation.

1. The character is male (so not Wonder Woman, not Donna Troy, not Power Girl, etc.)

2. The character has not appeared in the new 52 yet (so no Robin, no other Robin, no other other Robin, no other other other other Robin - remind me again why having two Batgirls would confuse people? - no Batman, no Superman, etc.)

3. The character is iconic, which implies that people who don't read comics will be at least passingly familiar with him (so no Vibe, no Elongated Man, no Matter-Eater Lad). Keep in mind, though, that DC's definition of "iconic" may be looser than the average person's. Didio and Johns may consider someone like Hourman or the Atom to be iconic, but most people wouldn't list them as huge cultural icons like Superman, Batman, or Flash.

4. In the old DC Universe the character was straight, which implies he was seen to at least date women.

Personally, my money is on Ryan Choi. He's male, he hasn't been seen in the New 52 but we do know that he will be appearing in the near future, he had dated women in the old DCU, and DC editorial totally thinks that the Atom is a major iconic character (in one form or another he's been in cartoons, he was in the aborted mid-90s JLI tv movie, etc.).

 

This. The only kind of character I'm interested in is a good, well-written one.

 

The current rumor is Alan Scott
Will Alan Scott, DC’s Original Green Lantern, Be Reintroduced As A Gay Man? | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

Which is odd as he was one of the first super hero to have kids being parent to characters Obsidian and Jade.

 

I'd be cool with that, at least if they find another way for Obsidian and Jade to exist. I was really pumped when Jade got brought back a couple of years ago and it's really sucked that she doesn't seem to exist anymore.

 

Well golden age Green Lantern did have a weakness for wood.

 

Oh man...  

 

     

Oh, that made my night. Thank you.

 

I say its the guy from the Wonder Twins.

How about Two face. He flips a coin each day to decide what his orientation will be that day.

 

Not to mention Obsidian is already gay. It would be kind of silly to remove a gay character just so you can make a different character gay. This is DC though, so who knows what the hell they're thinking.

Really this sort of thing is one of the biggest problems I have with DC. They always insist on making a big spectacle of this type of stuff. It's like they're going "HEY GAY PEOPLE! LOOK! WE GOT MORE GAY! READ OUR BOOKS PLEASE!" It makes everything seem like a cheap publicity stunt, even when the writer never intended it to be.

 

I'm actually quite open to the Alfred suggestion made earlier, despite my fondness for pairing him with Leslie Thompkins.

Okay, this made my morning.  

 

Aquaman isn't gay, but he does suffer from the same romantic abnormality as Troy McClure.

 

I swear, the option of an orgy just keeps getting more obvious