Gayness As Science-Fiction?

Steve Ditko was the perfect artist to draw this off-kilter story from Charlton Comics' Out Of This World, Issue #5 in 1957. The sci-fi anthology series usually rotated chronicles of humans meeting aliens, but The Man Who Stepped Out Of The Cloud has deep significance as it hints to homosexuality which at this point in history people weren't so socially enlightened upon. The story has an alien man arriving out of a cloud that just puttered in from space, which is subtext for someone coming out of the closet. The man is blonde with a somewhat flamboyant mustache who is witnessed by a teenage boy that saw the alien's "coming out". The cloud-traveler makes psychic contact with his planet who instruct him to bring the boy back in his space cloud. The boy gets swooshed away in the cloud back to the alien's planet which is supposedly populated all by men. The alien agent still on Earth has to explain to the boy's adopted parents that he didn't see him at all, which doesn't seem to bug the couple as they claimed he was a misfit for not tolerating their oppressive methods. In the last panel of this 5-page story, the boy is shown to be accompanied by several other happy boys and men with a welcoming presence on the alien world where he's given the chance to live until he grows up with a chance to return home if he wants. The Comics Code was established a year prior to this story's release which was extremely specific about non-homosexual displays in any publication, so whoever the writer was they were very strategic with their approach in this. The story isn't implying that life for homosexuals had gotten so bad that they had to make their own little paradise on a whole other planet to achieve any kind of peace of mind. Its more about young people being brought down by the older standards crushing their idealism. The comic is revolutionary in its approach and doesn't fail in its aim to future generations, but its overall message is about peace and brotherhood for which the Silver Age would view as being pure science-fiction.