Seen that article title a few days back, read it as "click bait" avoided as such.

@OP: Watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Captain Ray Holt is, IMHO, exactly what are you talking about - gay man that is represented as human, not as gay-human. He is, again IMHO, one of the best characters in any show airing currently (saying all this as a straight man).

OT: I've read the "article", really lousy one, it falls in the same category as those "every game needs to have choice whether you play as a man or a woman".

like sherlock, we all know he's got the hots for watson.

Yes. 

"...you should be making good characters first..." That's all you had to say, OP. The thing that developers/directors/writers should be focusing on is just making good characters.

90% of video game characters have no defined sexuality, so they may be gay for all I know. I can understand that non-stereotyped, known gay characters are fewer than straight ones (I can only think of that guy in TLOU and a couple in the MGS series) but pursuing gay characters is just as silly as pursuing straight ones. Just do whatever you think works best.

i know... but we need that in gaming...

In most games I couldn't tell if the characters are straight or gay so that I also don't know how the article can mention that gay people are underrepresented.

I mean, many games let you decide who you want to be and most other games never mention anything about the sexuality of the characters so that I'm not sure why they couldn't be gay. No need to mention that the character is gay just for the sake of it. I at least don't automatically think that a character in a game is heterosexual just because they didn't say “this is Battlefield and you play a gay soldier“

Some my little pony fan game might have it.

Ryse could easily be a story about two gay fighters in the Roman Army. They are two men, that fight together - like how Ovid's description that two fighters will fight the hardest as see what they are fighting for with them. Not some far away spouse in a long forgotten distant land.

Ryse: Two gay sons of Rome

Marious and his other half Vitallion:

The thing is, there are so few characters that minorities can relate to, that ANY portrayal of themselves, no matter how one dimensional, is appealing. Tyler Perry's movies present characters that are stereotyped beyond belief, but those are the only black characters there are, so you take what you can get. Being stereotyped is a step up from being invisible.