Gay characters exist in real life. There are currently zero in the CURRENT Star Wars canon. Certainly no prominent gay characters anyway.
So yeah, there ought to be a gay Star Wars character. Or two. That's not "overrepresentation" that's acknowledging their existence.
It's estimated that homosexuals make up roughly 5-10% of the population. So they should be roughly 5-10% of the characters in any work of fiction.
What's more, in something like Star Wars, it ought to be completely incidental (I mean, unless the Empire is homophobic....which it probably us) to the character. He/She's just "gay," and ought to just have chemistry with a potential love interest just like any straight couple.
It's crazy to me that people can be against something as innocuous as this.
Edit: So I've been seeing a bunch of different numbers regarding the percantage of gays in the US. Some are close to the low end of my number, some aren't. Apparently the 10% number came from an old Kinsey book. But also, apparently that number may actually be 20%
But regardless, what I'm getting at is that gays exist, they aren't some tiny abberation that only makes up a few thousand people. It's something worth just "being there" in somthing like Star Wars.
