you would think that reading a comic book is similar to something like Chinese water torture the way some people refuse to read them but still want to speak so definitively about the characters in them
The second queer comic character of the day is Hartley Rathaway / Pied Piper from DC Comics.
He's one of the earliest gay characters at DC. He came out in Flash (1987) #53, written by Messner-Loebs. He remained a frequent character in Flash and became Wally's friend.