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10-19-2020, 02:17 PM
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The thing with most of what I've read here in regards to the subject is that the suggestions all seem to be characters that would either be represented by a superficial, appearance based stereotype (Raptor, Gung Ho), or any that are close friends (Alpine + Bazooka).
I mean, if there were a character with a Stonewall shirt and a US flag in rainbow colors on their helmet, I’m not aware of any reason to think it’s offensive to say they’re likely to be queer.
Using visual cues to inform guesses isn’t the same as saying that reality has a single ironclad design language, or that orientation/identity can reliably be analyzed on visual information alone. Of course LGBT people can have any appearance whatsoever, and conversely, some people who might be widely assumed to be LGBT actually aren’t.
But particularly when talking about fictional characters who you can’t just have a conversation with, whose mental lives haven’t been well characterized yet, and who come from a time when many in the LGBT community were not only not personally out yet but being massively abandoned by the US government during the AIDS crisis, it’s kind of all we have to go on. I do think it’d be good to establish some characters who offer no hints of queerness as also being queer, to help portray the wide, limitless variety, but i also think it’s just authentic about the 80s that a lot of things were just by a wink and a nod.
Not everywhere and always, of course, but commonly in the general culture.
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