Wanna know who my favorite LGBT character is in all of pop culture?
Victor Strand, from Fear the Walking Dead.
When you meet him, he is a suave, cool, calculating “Black Most Interesting Man in the World” character. As the show progresses, you find out he has means, and training, and all kinds of really cool backstory breadcrumbs that makes you want to know more about him, see him develop more, and become a more prominent character in the show.
All you really know about him aside from he is a badass, is that he is trying to get home to someone, and the party is his means to that end.
Its halfway through season 2 you learn that someone is another man.
By that point, you are invested in his character, you have come to like him as a person and a protagonist. His same-sex partnership is just another “Oh, thats ALSO interesing” moment that adds another layer to his already substantial character.
You don’t care about it. It’s not relevant. It doesn’t matter. A man is trying to get home to someone he loves in an extreme situation. Thats all you know, and thats all you need to know, because thats something you can relate to.
Maybe there’s already plenty of lgbt relationships happening behind the scenes in Azeroth, but we dont hear about it because theres a lot of more important things going on. (points to large sword sticking out of planet)
Maybe Azerothian society isn’t hung up on gender or orientation like our backwards and prejudiced earth societies.
Maybe the hole a character likes to keep their genitals warm in, has no bearing on the overall storyline in the world of warcraft.
Do you think Daters-of-the-Dead (really Blizz? Necro **** iac is a naughty word???) everywhere cheered about being represented in WoW when Nathanos finally pushed the “Will they, Won’t they?” narrative with Sylvanus?
Food for thought. Orientation is not Identity, and as such, doesn’t always need to be identified.