If it IS an April Fool's, it's taking a jab at a significant number of the followers of the company and genre audience, which is probably a very bad idea.
If it ISN'T, I can't imagine how it would matter to a vast number of people in the West. Doesn't everyone have relatives/friends/coworkers etc. that they know and love who are LGBT? Why shouldn't there be a gay protagonist to a game that has, to Western audiences, a very stereotypically gay aesthetic in pretty much every respect?
What possible difference could it make to playing the game? I'd have no interest in riding a giant chocobo and fighting the beasts of Gran Pulse in real life, but I still like the games. Gay people buy into and connect with tons of straight stories emotionally. Who cares who the make-believe dude likes in his make-believe relationship? Are Western audiences really so shallow and unimaginative?
Can't we all just get along and play our games in peace?
