There are instances of writers ignoring years of precident and making characters gay (Iceman and the Rawhide Kid for instance) and some people will explain it as a mid-life "awakening" - which, if set up well, is believable.  But too often we don't see the set-up.  An example being Hercules, who had always been shown as preferring women (and to excess), but it seemed a little late in the game to shoehorn a relationship with a male character.  (Although if he were introduced as a new character now bisexuality would certainly be believable).

I don't have a problem with a wide range of character being portrayed.  I think it's better to do it with a character like Moondragon, who is pretty much a blank slate that it is Bobby Drake, who has been shown having interest exlusively in females (and yes, I do realize there are people who grow up denying their sexuality, but we saw no inclination of that with Iceman, we saw interest in Zelda Kurtzberg, Polaris, Darkstar and Opal Tanaka).  Again, with a proper set-up it would have much more believable.

It makes me wonder how any long-time readers can stand to read the new stuff.

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I was going to comment that X-TREME X-MEN came out 23 years ago and that the reintroduction of Sage/Tessa made me realize that Chris Claremont likes to write all his women as bisexual genius ninjas. Then I realized we already had this discussion four years ago. 

Complete with Alan Davis acknowledging that he illustrated Sat-Yr-9 (disguised as Courtney Ross) attempting to corrupt Kitty as a lesbian affair.

As an adult, I find it disturbing that Kitty was supposed to be 15/16 in EXCALIBUR, but was in relationships with adults.

Anyway, I find the idea of “changing orientations” only problematic if you view orientation as a binary or trinary or whatever state. If you think of sexuality existing on a spectrum, as many younger generations do, it’s less of an issue. Labels exist for representation and advocacy, not as a strictly defined category. 

I believe its absolutely stupid that DC decided to make the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott, gay. A character who has been around since the 1940's. I wonder if they did so because DC made an alternate universe version of him gay and the media mistakenly reported that it was the original?

I'm surprised some writer hasn't made Wonder Woman bi.