Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26225812-20150625072936/@comment-24183764-20170514000121

The examples you gave would have definitely been easy to do. For example, if Jack were simply male but had the same personality they gave the character then it would have made a good secret gay love interest for James (I say secret because I doubt King George would be pleased). I'd also say the subtext was there for a Mal x Regina relationship in "Enter The Dragon" which could have led to a meaningful interaction somewhere.

My complaint would come from something like Hercules just blatantly telling Snow he liked men after their kiss because there isn't much to Hercules in terms of character. It would place him in a similar position Dorothy's character was put in, where there is nothing to the character except one or two traits and their sexuality because they were intended to be in one or two episodes.

In my opinion, when a character's sexuality is at the forefront of the writer's mind it will damage the character more than simply giving the character a personality and then thinking about sexuality. Mulan's sexuality didn't seem as though it was added just to appeal to the LGBT community, it was just another part to an established character that was a loyal and patriotic warrior. Whereas a character like Dorothy just seemed to be added to appeal to the LGBT community kind of like "Hey, here's a LGBT storyline you wanted" which just seems wrong; and that's where I believe the RubySlippers ship failed because we had an already well-established character with Ruby but if Dorothy wasn't as fleshed out.

Honestly, if they brought Gideon back for Season 7 and did have him be a gay character (because I really believe there was subtext between him and Roderick as well) then I think it could work since his character has enough traits to not make it seem like another forced addition; although, the character he'd be paired with would need to be well-established as well/

And yes, I would love to see two Disney princes paired together. Could be hope since they still haven't done Princess and the Frog. xD