According to The Titans Companion, George Pérez considered making Jericho, his creation, gay—which probably in the mid-1980s would have meant fighting the company for some ambiguous portrayal.
But then Pérez thought that depicting a character he'd already decided was artistic and emotionally sensitive as homosexual would be perpetuating a stereotype.
Not to mention that this gay character would have come already nobly handicapped, and with the power to go inside people's bodies. The symbolisms could have been overwhelming.