User blog comment:Don25/LGTB in TD./@comment-28967746-20180111002617/@comment-30567301-20180111010021

if you aren't okay with lgbt people then you're wrong, period. there is no ifs, ands, or buts about it. and if your mentality or views conflict with peoples rights, ability to live, or ability to be represented '''you. are. the. problem'''. not the people who are innocently trying to mind their own lives without people passing judgement on them. no one is better than anyone else because of their sexuality.

people love to pass off homophobia as no big deal, but it is. these people are being murdered for their sexuality and there are children and teens being beat up for being gay/lesbian or transgender in schools. there are little trans children being bullied by their TEACHERS. it's just plain ridiculous. people who don't go through that don't get that being able to see yourself normalized, and represented in cartoons matters so much. to see that you aren't the only one, it means so. much. not only that, it makes people who aren't as accepting attempt to realize "okay, maybe i'm not being rational here". there is not a negative to lgbt represention if the representation is handled appropriately.

if gay people can handle seeing straight people for YEARS on tv, i'm sure it wouldn't matter for a character to be gay. if you think that a character being gay would affect your ability to enjoy the show, that's pretty embarassing and sad.

lgbt people are not a polticial view. there are conservative lgbt people and liberal lgbt people, being lgbt is one miniscule fact about you that doesn't make up your life. people who don't like lgbt people are just plain hateful, and we should be trying to keep those types of people out of our fandom.

regarding the controversy, yeah there will be idiots who don't like it, but if this show has a gay character it'll give the show tons of publicity, which will draw in more viewers.

you're making excuses to keep lgbt characters out of television when there is no point in doing so.