Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4877635-20130614170253/@comment-5106672-20131003231025

Levi.goodliff wrote: Lol that escalted quickly.

I agree if they get lgbt characters on the show they should do it good. Like CInderella who's story arc (for me personally) have just fcked up.

Saying that there are far more things important than being underrepresented in the media means shit to me. The problem for me is just on a wide scale all the characters are white and straight. I just want them to make/write the characters as if anyone (colour/race/gender) could play them like they did with Jacklyn from the Beanstalk and incorporate core details that connect with the essense of the character. (i hope this makes sense).

I also completely agree that fiction is a reflection of us, ofcourse you can say that we have to look inside the characters but to find what connects/identificates and makes you wanna follow them. But we all know thats not the first thing we see; were drawn to Ariel cause of how  Joanna Garcia looks or because of Hooks sexy emo glam look; and after that like their characters. Its not that i want those people to be easily replace able from the outside, but idk where this is going anymore tho, just ugh. xD

Its just they make it so hard for them selfes to write a gay character when its actually not, just write them as people and customize the etenicy and sexuality afterwards. -.- shouldnt be that hard? Well, I'm not a supporter or having to jam characters of other ethnicities than caucasian, or in this case LGBT, into things just because otherwise that's not politically correct. I see it as some form of discrimination in reverse. Beneficial rather than detrimental, but still discrimination, because it is still a different treatment based on that particular thing (making a character aptly gay, as opposed to having a character who happens to be straight).

Yes, I would love to see a gay character in the show, possibly a gay man (because let's face it, it's easier to put a lesbian woman in, 'cause even the most omophobic straight men secretly like them for a whole host of ancestral biological reasons), possibly not stereotypical. But not at all costs. Not if that means to just mention it for no particular reason. If they can take a fairytale, twist it so it would be fresh and interesting with two men, or if that would provide more depth to the character (for instance, as I mentioned some months ago, what if curse-womanizer Dr. Whale turned out to have been gay as Dr. Frankestein, with all the "oh god, now what" situation that might come out of that), then fine, but not just "this is him, he does that, oh, and by the way he's gay".