Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4877635-20130614170253/@comment-1758442-20130619034340

Applegirl wrote: I never said there was anything wrong with using one's imagination in pairing people together. What I have an issue with is when fans think using imagination to make a what-if pairing automatically translates to "it's going to happen on the show". My frustration stems from watching on Adam Horowitz's twitter feed all the time of some fans constantly asking him if SwanQueen is going to happen on the show. And some of them have been blalant and rude about it and questioning Adam in the aspect of just because SwanQueen isn't happening now or isn't going in that direction on the show it means he's against LGBT. Where is the logic in that? I doubt all SwanQueen fans are this aggressive, but mostly I've seen this on twitter.

I can understand it if a fan likes SwanQueen as just an exclusive shipping or pairing outside of the show, but when a person takes it so seriously to the point of demanding to Adam Horowitz on twitter to make them a real couple on the show, I really don't know what to think. I especially do not appreciate the ones I've seen on twitter literally use SwanQueen as an excuse to blame Adam for being anti-gay, which is really just wrong. To think about it honestly, if hypothetically SwanQueen *did* happen, I would want it to be based on the creative input of Adam and Eddy if they feel like it would fit with the show and not because they have tons of fans constantly asking them for the two characters to get together. The producers, writers, and actors on this show deliberately solicit questions from their fans on Twitter. The whole reason for this is to hear from fans. Some will be rude and some won't be but from what I've seen, neither politeness nor rudeness are exclusive to SQ shippers.

I do wish that those SQ shippers wouldn't be so quick to accuse Adam or others of being anti-LGBT. That said, I understand where they're coming from. If you look at TV and film as a whole, there's still a significant lack of same-sex pairings between lead characters. It's hard to deny that there's some kind of real or perceived pressure against adding in same-sex pairings to a show. It's likely that networks fear that a same-sex romance will alienate some viewers, a fear that has some validity, so they bend to that pressure. This is not a malicious decision and can't be blamed on any one individual. However, it does imply that networks would rather appease homophobes than deny them. For LGBT people, that must be a scary message as it implies that homophobia is still a large part of the population. A show with a prominent same-sex pairing that does well in the ratings would show that networks can completely alienate homophobes without compromising their show's success, indicating that homophobia has shrunk. This is why so many LGBT people and their allies are so passionate about getting a show that features a same-sex pairing in the lead.