Off topic, but it's weird how far off my radar the JSA characters are. I like to think I know my way around the DCU by now, but JSA seems like it's a pocket dimension to which I haven't really been exposed all that much.
It's a bit of a balance, though, since it does sort of imply that his sexuality is linked to his childhood, given that his early behavior could be symptomatic of either and has been taken in canon to be symptomatic of both at various different times. I think the tradeoff is well worth it, we need a fuckton more gay superheroes in the Big Two and I'll cope with some barely-there unfortunate implications or the reappropriation of other stories for nefarious gay agenda purposes if that's what it takes.
Right. I guess whether or not it's implied mostly comes down to writer's choice and reader interpretation. And since there are people in the world who are gay or bi who have suffered at the hands of abusive and/or sexually abusive parents--even if one thing didn't have anything to do with the other--so there is that, too.
Others, obviously, are less sanguine.
I think we should have Squeeful Slash Week or Canon Gay Week or something here.