Comics ' mature-audience miniseries  Watchmen  were gay, Northstar was the first openly gay mainstream superhero. Other gay and bisexual superheroes have since emerged, such as  Pied Piper ,  Gen¹³ 's  Rainmaker , and the gay couple  Apollo  and Midnighter  of  Wildstorm Comics ' superhero team the  Authority . In the mid-2000s, some