I have my toxic suit on

even as a queer person, I agree with this statement, especially if said gay character isn't well written.

as a lesbian, i agree!! you don’t have to be queer to have personality, but representation is always good(because like 95% of characters are straight)

I make gay characters because it's cool.

I'm gay and agree

Literally nobody said it did.

Doctor Strange 2 anyone?

Welp when I realized I was gay it gave me less personality, more or less.

True. But it does open up a lot more potential story-lines.

True again, but the fact that some companies and shows add it in just for that and don't give it any more context or meaning other than representation makes the story lame and slowed down, and you could remove it without much changing other than some closed and open relationship possibilities. I don't know if I'm so passionate about this topic on a meme website, but here we are. All in all, it's not the sexuality that companies need to focus on, but the relationship between said characters with representation going by subtlety. I respect your opinion and you have a good point. I just hope you will respect my opinion.

All good. : )

In a movie, absolutely...unless the story circles around to the gay character(s) playing some pivotal role (with behavioral allowances for genre, obvi). In a television series it's a bit of a mixed bag; on one the one hand, it's the same as flotsam side-stories about hetero secondary characters personal lives that don't really forward the plot and are only there as time-fillers. On the other hand, it's a useful device for maintaining interest in the show as well as creating openings for new arcs which can be woven back into the main story line over the course of the season(s). Unfortunately, write-staffs seem to have problems balancing inclusive representation against dignity and frequently devolve into stereotypicals. TWD handled it really well --likeable, non-polarizing, realistic gay characters possessed of dignity, subtle subplot & development of tension with no stereotyping. Of course, the show's pretty dark in general so it would've lost viewership by doing otherwise.

Sidenote with bearing on the realm of serials, I don't know if you've ever sat through a few soap-operas -their writers are masters of the parallel/sub-plot story line. Not to get too nerdy, but if ever there was a theatrical representation of the Mandelbrot Set, it's the soap-opera.