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Frankly, that's a stupid idea. New characters are invented all the time, and the chance of them lasting is very, very slim. A new superhero has to grab the attention of readers by being in someway cool or interesting with their powers/circumstances--this is, after all, comic books. And if the character isn't' the first to have claws shoot from the back of his hands, or the first to fly or have cool armor or is connected to some other cool superhero by, say, having a bat on their chest, then they'll be tossed on that mountainous heap of forgotten superheroes--their sexual orientation immaterial.
So if you want to make sure that a character who is gay will last, will stick around and, thus, the universe will always have a gay character, you need to take a character who you know isn't going to be erased and forgotten and make them gay. That is the smart thing to do. How many, after all, would have read Batwoman, the lesbian, if there was no "Bat" in the name, no connection to Batman?
Creating a new superhero just so you can have a gay superhero in your universe is betting on long odds. Odds are he/she won't last; most new superheroes don't. And there goes the gay character you wanted for that universe. Better to reinvent an established hero or a new hero who is part of an established group. And no, a new GL would not have worked so well because there are thousands of GL's (unlike the Batman family which is relatively small). So, reinvent an old one--one, let us remember, from a parallel universe. Being that this is a parallel universe, why not have him being gay as the twist?
