How many of the 'woke agenda' brigade have seen My Beautiful Laundrette? Or the Crying Game?
This 'woke agenda' stuff as they call it has been around for decades.
Christ Crying Game is 30 years old and My Beautiful Laundrette is from 1985.
I understand the sentiment of the angle Tony. When I saw the thread title I knew you'd be hooked into it by the usual narrative, which I might add is entirely predictable. Is it really worth it? I guess if you have nothing better to do, go for it.
Throwing those two classic films into the argument kind of highlights their point though. They are well written and the existence of LGBT characters within makes perfect sense, they are an integral part of the plot or deal with themes they bring up - also at time of release they was still a long way to go for general acceptance.
I'd add in that 'Call me by your name' is one of the finest romance films recently released. Universal praise and enjoyed by a large audience.
Contrast tonsome of the stuff where it's just shoehorned in for the sake of it, e.g. "oh sorry Bond, can't help, I have my BF coming over" from Q in the latest Bond is just pointless signalling that the writers have suddenly decided to draw attention to, it didn't serve much purpose at all - if anything I see it less as representation and more exploitative. So I see it from the other side too.
There's got to be a point to it within the story, not just what reaction it will get in media, social media or whatever. Make it natural and nobody bats an eyelid, as tbh, it totally is normal within our society here in the UK and sonit should and remain.