Dove Got a Raw Deal: Aggression, violence, and gender roles in Hawk and Dove
This sort of attitude and confusion towards Don's pacifism wasn't just held by the writers of the 1968 title, but can be seen well into the 1980s, including the decision to kill him off in "The Crisis on Infinite Earths." His replacement with a female Dove makes the statement made by Don’s death all the more concerning. As Barbara Kesel recounts, her husband and co-creator of the Hawk and Dove miniseries told her long before they wrote the story, "I never liked Dove as a guy. Too wussy. I always thought Dove should be a girl."

Lyle Norg Isn't Gay!: Canon, Fanon, and Creator-Encouraged Fanon in post-Zero Hour Legion of super-Heroes
Lyle Norg is not canonically gay. All the places where he is actually, in fact, stated to be gay by, I believe, Peyer, are extra-textual. If Fripple hadn't told me that Lyle was listed various places as being gay, I would have maybe suspected, but never assumed that he was, just from the text. Even Gay League's list of non-straight superheroes lists him as "of uncertain sexuality."

Character X got turned into a girl!: On genderswitch stories
I see in various slash communities a lot of discomfort with the idea of "being a girl" and a lot of identification with male characters. The idea of turning a male character into a female who must cope with and become "a girl" makes perfect sense in this context. The whole process is in part about the character's initial discomfort with being female and forced to go through all these processes of beautification and menstruation, etc., and slowly adapting to being "a girl" only to change back.

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