[Gen.Blather]

They are complaining that blacks (pardon, people of color) make up only 21% of the film characters. Well, they make up only about 13% of the populace so at 21% of the film universe they are over-represented. Gays make up about a fraction of one percent of the overall populace, so if they appear in film at all they are over-represented.

Having written and published several novels I can tell you how difficult it is to have a fully-fleshed character unless that character is the main one. All supporting characters have so little story time that they, of necessity, must be caricatures. To give them more story time simply because they are gay distorts and damages the story you are trying to tell. Unless your story is something like “Priciolla, queen of the desert,” you simply don’t have the story time to throw in a fully formed gay character.

There is another complaint that they are used to set up a joke. Well, if they act like normal people, how do you know they are supposed to be gay? Say you have a serious police detective with a serious murder to solve. The story concentrates on the murder, not a subplot about how he has the hots for his partner and the trouble that brews. Unless the author can work in a subplot that blends and resolves with the main plot it will seem a polemic and people will tune out.

This article is a ridiculous whine.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The plot of a 30 minute sitcom is easier to fit characters like this into.

If you had to go into something long winded, a story like that of Alan Turing might seem to be the thing to do, one in which the character has a significant specialty aside from his or her sex life, which even occupies more of his or her life than sex does.

But generally normal people would get tired of seeing “gay romances” play out in depth. Sorry this ain’t our cup of tea.

[thoughtomator]

They need to be obviously gay or they don't count. Because the reason to have them there is to condition the masses to get used to it. It's a normalization agenda.

[Jeff Chandler]

They are complaining that blacks (pardon, people of color) make up only 21% of the film characters.

About the same percentage as in the USPS.

[Yaelle]

How right you are. These idiots would complain if every movie this year was about a black lesbian. Not enough Hispanic gay transgender men. You CANNOT win by clocking and complaining about differences. I learned this in second grade.

Change comes over time. If they want to have stats on gays in film, check the number of films with openly homosexual characters every 10 years. They should be happy with that progression.