Don't you feel 'entertainment' these days has to make characters scream to the rooftops they are gay? Like literally their sole defining trait is that they are gay. I'm not sure if that's belittling to gays or not. Do any of my followers happen to be gay? If so, what do you think of the way entertainment is portraying you?
I'm not sure... even 'evil' gay characters are allowed to exist.
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I don't care what the sexual orientation of any character is. However, if any character is running around and letting people know who they like or prefer to sleep with, that gets boorish. It really detracts from the characteristics that make them who they are. Writers who focus on sexual orientation often miss out on what makes their character special. Who they get into bed with doesn't matter, unless you're writing porn.
the best gay/bisexual character in my eyes is always gonna be Captain Jack Harkness he never said what he is and was just himself to be fair tho I think he was into everything and everyone by the end of the torchwood series like you don't even find out hes gay or whatever until he flirts with someone
I think if Disney wanted to really do something special with LBGTQ+ in their movies, they should have nixed the easily-editable throwaway line in Onward and just shipped Laurel and Corey; she had way better chemistry with her than with the centaur whose name I can’t be fucked to remember.
I’d even like to think that LaurelxCorey was originally in the first shooting draft of the script, but Disney, not wanting to trigger their overseas market went all, “The best we can do is a throwaway line from a walk-on character that will get edited for anti-LGBTQ+ countries and ship the mom with the centaur.”
LGBTQ+ character? Fine. Don't care. Just remember that "hello have I mentioned I am LGBTQ+ today?" is not a personality! Make them an actual character, not a propaganda poster.
The best example I've seen of a gay character was in Mass Effect 3. The shuttle pilot Cortez is gay but you only find out if you find him crying over a picture of his almost certainly dead husband.
If homosexuality is a primary focus for a given piece of media then a characters romantic or sexual preference would be directly relevant and. If homosexuality is not a primary focus then a character shouting their preference from the rooftops said character is there for much the same reason that racial minorities were shoehorned into many television shows in the past.
To be fair, they do.
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I remember that I wrote a paper about this topic once when Finding Dory had just come out. They made a big thing out of how progressive it was for them to have gay characters, there was a huge media craze over how wonderful it was, and everyone was excited only for them to get a ten second scene of two women standing next to each other. I also remember that around this time there was a movie trailer for a romance film that had the plot twist of it be, "He's a normal average everyday student, but he has a BIG secret... He's gay."
And I just thought to myself... "So?... What's the story?"
"He's gay!"
"Well, yeah, I get that, but what's the story? Is he late for prom, does he need to do something to help his school with a fundraiser?"
"He's gay."
"Yeah, I heard. What else, what's the story? How does it use that?"
"He's gay."
"I don't think you have a plan for this movie, do you?"
"He's gay."
I HATE how they try to act like it's so "Progressive' when it should just be treated as a normal thing. If we keep labeling something as "progressive" or "Ahead of their time" then it'll never be considered as "normal". That's what it is, it's normal, it's not something that we need to all sing about, it's not something we should all shy away from, it's just normal. Oh, and don't even get me started on evil gay characters. Now, I think it's normal for gay people, just like straight, bi, and every other sexual preference of people to have different types of people in their group. There are some good straight people, some bad, and the same applies to people who aren't straight. Having a certain sexual preference doesn't prevent someone from being bad, but people like to act like, "It's terrible to portray a gay person as being bad."
Like, I remember that a bunch of people got pissed off at Vivziepop for Hazbin Hotel having gay characters in Hell. First of all, they're to there because they're gay, they're there because they're murderers, psychopaths, and monsters who just happen to have a certain sexual preference.
And then, there was that controversy about J.K. Rowlings latest book being bad because, "It has a transgender serial killer." First of all, the murderer is a crossdresser, not a transgender person, there's a difference. Secondly, why can't we write about transgender serial killers? Thirdly, having a crossdressing serial killer isn't anything new, Hitchcock did it years ago and everyone praised him for it. There's nothing wrong with having an antagonist who's gay or queer or trans or anything, it's not like anyone is saying that being gay automatically made them an evil person who pointed a death ray at the moon.
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what about garnet from SU?
Like everyone else is saying, writers have noticed that the only difference between gay and straight is what their love interest looks like, and that love interests don't have to be real characters. They then heartlessly exploit this for free diversity points.
The Dragon Prince does this perfectly. There are gay characters, but not once, not even for a second a scene lingers too long on them. They're just a gay couple and is perfectly normal. As it should be.