see, Obsidian came out as a homo in the '90s in the gerard jones JLA run and it was kinda funny.
then Obsidian being gay was just treated as a part of his character, but not to the point of overriding all else. Hell, we even had this
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This was. . . late 00s.
I genuinely think they just made Alan Scott gay in the n52 Earth-2 book because his son was gay and then some retard decided that was going to be canon for the normal Alan even though. . . we'd spent decades with him having a history of being with women and an entire '80s-'90s arc of him finally marrying the OG Harlequinn (his "catwoman" and going to hell to save her soul.
If we were to pick a homosexual to just spawn into the JSA, there's plenty of better picks. Jay, Allan, Ted, and Carter are just big "no-gos" for this. Hell, wouldn't it be interesting if they decided to give some classic Golden Age character more exposure by writing up a Blue Marvel style comic about how there was a prominent hero of that era who became forgotten due to the government finding out about his homosexuality? DC owns so many Golden Age names they could just fucking throw out there.
Fuck's sake, just retcon it so that the original Firebrand was gay and led the Freedom Fighters whenever Uncle Sam wasn't there. Bam.