Uncaring

         “You’re not very impressive either genius.”

              “Oh I’m sorry. Do you not like it when I do this?”         Makes the character run in circles some more.

          “I will do as I wish as long as it follows the law.               You should do the same.”

“ Why is it wrong to make a GAY character STRAIGHT but not the other way around? “

This is a question that seems to be brought up every now and again because people just don’t seem to get it. The simple answer to this matter is REPRESENTATION.

When you take a character who is canonically homosexual and make them straight, you are erasing the purposely given representation from their character. It’s shameful. If you want to play a heterosexual character there are plenty of others out there. And writing a gay character doesn’t mean you have to write “gay stuff”. Nobody is forcing you to write smut or ship anything, but you have to understand that out of respect for that character as well as the homosexual minority that changing that character’s sexuality to only include attraction to those of the opposite sex is WRONG.

Here are some other things you don’t do: You don’t make a POC character white. You don’t make a trans* character cis and You don’t take a mental illness out of a character’s background. All of these things are demonstrations of erasure and intolerance.

The reason why the latter list done backwards is okay ( making a white character a POC, making a cis character trans* or making a straight character gay ) is because it CONTRIBUTES to representation.  When you make these changes you are encouraging diversity.

           “Hey thats rude you talking ragdoll!”

            “But it’s fun…”