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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t believe it’s 2022 and we still need to analyze every gay or possibly gay character to determine if their existence is realistic and ok or superfluous and done for an agenda. Gay people exist. Many, many more than you think. Surprise![/quote]
I have several LGBTQ  friends and family members. That said, they are less than 5% of the people I know. So yes, having 2 gay main characters (that aren’t a couple) seems to be an agenda, not representation. 
They did plant the seed early in season 1 with Will was being teased for being gay.
I don’t mind - but it is obviously an agenda. [/quote]

OMG stop watching if you can't handle having TWO gay characters on a show [/quote]

NP.  I'm not bothered by it at all, I love both characters, have gay friends and relations, but I can still acknowledge there is an agenda these days.[/quote]

Please tell your gay friends and family about "the agenda" you keep seeing in shows so they know they can just cut you out of their life and be done with you.

A real friend would be celebrating the representation. [/quote]

Where did I say it was a bad agenda.  It's a fine agenda.  But it's an agenda.    It's obvious to everyone, [b]and although many of us support the agenda, we don't always feel that the storytelling is well-served by the agenda.[/b]  I L-O-V-E Robin's character, but no way a girl would come out like that to a guy like Steve in 1985.  It was so (awfully) different back then.  So the Robin-Steve relationship sticks out as anachronistic and it takes you out of the moment.  Even though, yeah, I wish it was like that for my gay friends in the 80s.  Do you understand what I'm getting at?  [/quote]

So, let me be sure that I understand. In a story about a girl raised in a lab to have telekinetic powers that open a portal to another dimension in which monsters exist and plan to invade our world and kill everyone, the story telling is not "well- served" by a depiction of a gay girl telling a guy that she is gay because that would have been "unrealistic" in the 80's.

And I had a large group of friends in the 80s, two of whom were gay (well, bi and gay, to be exact). This was in Kentucky. It was never a big deal except when Laura kissed Mark's girlfriend Katie, and there was some confusion about whether that counted as Katie cheating.

PP, you are perhaps not the person you think you are.[/quote]

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