thinks about how the reason straight people put maybe only one gay couple or one gay character in their stories is because thats how many gay people they have in their life and they assume that their insular homgenous experience must be the norm
like im absolutely certain authors and creators sit down and go “how many gay people do i know? not many? that must be the norm, if i put anymore in it just won’t be believable”
“im scared to and don’t know how” if an artist said that about their inability to draw hands, they wouldn’t get very far. its your responsibility to talk to lgbt people about their experiences and do some learning and studying, but if you constantly cop out with “I don’t know how.” or that you haven’t been well receieved in the past, do more work. take criticism into account. if your excuse is that you don’t know about that perspective, i don’t know how to tell you this, but perhaps you shouldn’t be writing a story set in an alternate universe, since you don’t know that perspectiv, either.
lgbt people arent asking you to make every single character gay. we’re not asking you to go play by play and write our own perspectives for us. we just want you to realize we’re not actually a whole other species and to include us as a demographic in your stories, considering we do you the favor as including you in ours.
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