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The comics industry is dying, but DC and Marvel seem not to care. They are much more interested in making every character they can get their hands on gay.   

Batwoman, Robin, The Flash, Superman, Wonder Woman, Hulkling - whatever that is - and Wiccan; Rictor, Shatterstar, that one from the Eternals movie nobody watched; Iceman; Green Lantern; there is plenty of talk that Spiderman will get at least the bi treatment in the near future.  

This kind of forced diversity is bad for fans, but it's bad for gay people, too. By making "representation" a substitute for story, they deny us characters that actually have some relation to the lives we lead; and by making established characters gay, they set up a zero-sum game where writers try to take from the existing fandom to appeal to an hypothetical queer one.  

There is no need for any of this. Gay people don't need tokenistic "representation" in the form of gaying up straight characters. If you want more gay characters, write new gay characters. Put as much time, love and effort into them as you once put into the creation of the Avengers or the Justice League. The fans will follow, and thank you for it, whether they are straight or gay.  

But that would require work, and the publishers are much more interested in film franchises like the MCU than they are in the comics that provided the stories and the characters. The comics industry has been left to rot, stuffed with social justice hacks like Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose sole aim is to have themselves and their politics reflected on the page, and to lecture the fans who dare not to like it.