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bfslick50 posted...

There's a high power group that wants to limit the number of queer characters because of bigotry and they are often successfully able to point at international marketing to to justify their bigotry as a business decision. This pressures a lot of creators to change their story from intended purposes and hide that a character is queer. The people on twitter are sick of that and complain. You are taking aim at those complaints.

If you actually want it normalized, representation is a huge factor in normalizing it. A character just being queer without it being a plot point or a joke just as they could be British without it being a plot point or a joke is normalization.

I agree that representation is good and I have never said otherwise. That being said, good representation and normalization also includes making these depictions (or at least a lot of them) mundane and without attention called to them, and as I've already stated, there is a non-trivial amount of pressure on creators and actual real life people to do the opposite. In addition, there are plenty of people that are "openly" gay or trans or whatever, but tend not to explicitly state it to everyone they know because it simply isn't relevant 90% of the time.