Fun fact: the comment about friendships was directly referencing Don't Ask Don't Tell from Real Life America from 1994 to 2011... Actually just looked and it was repealed the exact day that Lonesome Road released. So it was very topical until the game's story finished and it suddenly was not, and now people don't know it was Direct Real Life Topical Commentary at one point.
I knew about DADT but not the timing of the game releases relative to the repeal! Knight's Confirmed Bachelor dialogue just bothers me because everything he says is demonstrably false in-universe. There's an aggressively open lesbian in the First Recon and a very flirty gay doctor posted at Forlorn Hope. Legion punishes it with death, also, which makes it confusing as to why he says the Legion is kinder about that.
I was mostly having fun trying to rationalize why he's the one negative outlier as far as "experience as a gay member of NCRA c. 2281" goes, within the established canon.

















