I didn't know that he wanted to explicitly state that Northstar was gay! I don't know if I would've appreciated that. I kind of like the way that Byrne handled it -- he made it preeeetty clear that Jean-Paul was into men without ever making a big deal about it. I mean, when Heather calls him up to come back to AF after she decides to reform them and you see Jean-Paul's house, when he's doing laps in his pool and some handsome fellow in a swimsuit answers the phone for him? That just seemed way more natural to me than his actual coming-out in #107 or whenever it was, when it was SO forced and lecturey and AIDS AWARENESS WEEK TV special-esque. But then, I wasn't around in 1983/4 when Byrne was doing the title, so I don't know if it would've been so clear to a contemporary reader.
LOL forever. "Wanda Langkowski". The creative team was on some pretty good crack when that one happened.