Alan Scott is homosexual

Green Lantern is gay, but not the Green Lantern most of us know. This is the original one, the one that appeared way back in the forties and his name is Alan Scott a multimillionaire that accidentally gained possession of the most powerful weapon in the universe: a ring that could emit unlimited quantities of green-colored energy that could also adopt any shape wished so by the ring bearer. The ring had two limitations:
a. It could not affect anything made of wood.
b. The bearer himself, since the ring responded to his will and imagination.
In time a new version of Green Lantern was invented, some kind of space policeman who belonged to a Police force that patrolled the entire universe. His name was Hal Jordan and the movie made in 2011 featured him not Alan Scott.
For a long while there was only Hal Jordan and others who served as his replacements in periods he was unable to serve as Lantern. Then the concept of multiple universes came along and it was revealed that Alan Scott was still operating as Green Lantern but in a parallel Earth called, for no clear reason, Earth 2. He was older now and had two children who also had superpowers. Curiously, the one called Obsidian was homosexual.
During a crisis that concerned the whole multiverse of the DC reality, that multiverse was destroyed to be replaced with a new one that contained the heroes of five different universes now gone. Of course that demanded a reality adjustment of sorts and that also meant Alan Scott came to exist in the same Earth as that of Hal Jordan. The team he belonged to, the Justice Society, had existed in the past and fought even the Nazis. The Society was still around in the present, with old and new members alike, along Hal Jordan's own team of superheroes, the Justice League. This world fulll of superheroes was replaced again by another reality where there are 52 universes and again the heroes of Earth 1 and Earth 2 exist separatedly. There are certain differences now, though. The heroes of Earth 2 are as young as the ones in Earth 1. They have their own comic book called Earth 2, with their own versions of Superman, Batman,  and Wonder Woman. They also have their own Green Lantern, none other that a young version of Alan Scott (with an updated costume as well) who never got married or had children and is gay.
That a superhero is gay is not a new thing in the DC universe (Batwoman is gay and was gay before the last DC event); what's new is that a major character is homosexual now. The treatment of this aspect in his life is also handled with care. Alan will continue being the same heroic person he was before, as selfless and commanding as ever. Being gay will hardly get in his way, it will add to his character and not become central to his stories.
Times change and comic book characters do too.