No gay sex, please, we're superheroes

Harper's takes a look at TEH GHEY in comics and why "homosexual" in the four-color world is pretty much akin to a red shirt on the starship Enterprise:

BATWOMAN: revealed as a closeted lesbian, kidnapped, tortured; stabbed herself through the stomach with a sword

CAPTAIN METROPOLIS: decapitated

FREEDOM RING: finger sliced off; impaled on twenty-eight spikes, including one through the groin and anus

KARMA: raped as a child, kidnapped, disfigured; later reappears but is too fat to move on her own

NORTHSTAR: killed in three different realities, resurrected as a zombie assassin

WING: admitted crush to his mentor, who broke his arm and beat him; given a check for $750,000 and forced to leave his superhero group in dishonor

And that isn't even the whole list. Methinks someone (or many someones) has/have some issues.