User blog comment:Don25/LGTB in TD./@comment-32445804-20180111014952/@comment-32912801-20180111022429

The first character or LGBT couple, would raise controversy (like the first interracial couples in the animation in the 80s and 90s) but it would be very positive afterwards and it would look like something normal.

You are right that the first character must be done well and that his sexual orientation is only part of him, not his core as a character.

It's what bothered me so much about Mike (I suffer from a mental disorder and that offended me a lot), his disorder defined him and was his core, when it should be only part of him.

However, later, they solved it with Shawn, Jay and Mickey, characters with very plausible mental and emotional disorders, but who did not represent them, it was only part of them.