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I say that with humour, but it really does teach you empathy in that regard. Till I saw that show I didn't realise how different it must be for a gay person, and it's no wonder gay people have felt so excluded and marginalised for so long.

As a side note, as defense mechanism, the older of my people developed a habit of looking for the smallest clue to find gay people in the stories, to find people to identify with.
This explains why so many gay Legion fans extrapolated out that Element Lad was gay, because he had pink elements to his costume and was shy with girls. Yup, that's all it took. Or in Miracle Man, the story where the young man was telling the person he was in bed with, about meeting Miracle man as a boy. Because you never quite saw the other person's face, a horde of us assumed he was gay.
It's so much better now with actual out characters. We can stop trying to look so hard for a hint of gayness in a gesture or a nuance.
And what I learned from Queer as Folk on Showtime, is don't bother going to Los Angeles, the working class guys in the clubs in Pittsburgh are much hotter. ( grin )

I hang around Smack Jeeves a lot and good gravy do the girlies love boys-love comics. It's ridiculous because a lot of them have bizarre ideas of how gay people act, or actually don't care about how they really act and just want to draw a bunch of pretty boys kissing each other. Almost all of the comics in the top 20 or so are boys-love comics...It gets a little disheartening too. Anywho, it's annoying when people start these kinds of comics thinking that having gay characters is enough for an interesting story, and as such a lot of them have barely enough of a story skeleton to keep it afloat.

I notice that some Web comics make the gay character because it's simply the fact that it's irresistable to have a forbidden romance, A love almost Romeo and Juliet....but instead its Romeo and Abrham. But that's only if the character(s) are really CHARACTERS, not some cutout from a 80's teen movie.
I never read Yaoi comics( all the characters look like girls) but I do like REAL gay Comic characters. because a good webcomic would downplay the gay thing so much that suddenly the person could say' I'm gay' and you would be suprised completly.

Oneweek
I notice that some Web comics make the gay character because it's simply the fact that it's irresistable to have a forbidden romance, A love almost Romeo and Juliet....but instead its Romeo and Abrham. But that's only if the character(s) are really CHARACTERS, not some cutout from a 80's teen movie.
I never read Yaoi comics( all the characters look like girls) but I do like REAL gay Comic characters. because a good webcomic would downplay the gay thing so much that suddenly the person could say' I'm gay' and you would be suprised completly.

Well I think everything "cutout" looks bad, not only gay people in the comic, and I think we all like better something that is original...About the forbidded love- there are millions of gay people in the world so It dont make it so special anymore, and mostly people dont really care so much.You want forbidden love- create a guy who have attraction to animals XD
And you said all boys in Yaoi comic look like girls, and you also say you never read any Yaoi, so how can you know? :P Saw one page and made conclusion for the rest of your life?

And about gay people in comics, I think Its good, the more diffrent characters and philosophies are mixed in the comic, the better it is,and btw, why shouldnt they be there?I mean theres no doubt whether straigh character should be in the comics...