I guarantee you that the pilot and the black dude are gay, they just have too much of a thing for each other. Wearing his jacket, being all happy to see him, being like "now that's one hell of a pilot". His lack of romantic interest in any of the female characters or rather, no chemistry. It's totally them.

My gaydar was pinging through the roof with those two. I bet that pilot, like Luke, is really good at aiming his torpedo at a small hole.

Also, Chewie is gay.

This seemed like a fun math excersise to think about so I decided to find out how many movies have gay characters and whether that fits with how many there should be statistically.  

According to this article: http://variety.com/2015/film/news/glaad-report-gay-movie-characters-2014-tammy-get-hard-1201471698/

"The report, which studied releases from the seven major studios in 2014, found that 20 of the 114 movies (17.5%) that bowed last year had characters who identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual."

So 17.5% of movies in 2014 had a gay character of some sort.  

 And according to this article: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-22/americans-vastly-overestimate-size-of-lgbt-population 4% of the population is gay.  

That means 96% of movie characters should be straight.  Assuming that an average movie has 10 characters that would mean .96^10 chance that all the characters should be straight statistically or 66.48%.  So 31.52% of movies should have a gay character, but only 17.5% actually did in 2014.  Therefore if anything LGBT community is still underrepresented in movies.  

well, openly gay then I guess.

Ehhh... how do you know it isn't essential to the story, when you don't know that character's role in the story?

Character relationships are very important in stories, so their sexuality can make a big difference.  If Anakin had been gay, the stories would have turned out very differently.

Yeah it wouldve evnded before the first movies were even made. Time paradox....

oh ok that's cool. What's important is that the movie is good. I'm also very confused by the anger in the comments here

Look, that was ONE time.  He was drunk and it was dark, and telling a girl wookie from a boy wookie is difficult in the best circumstances.

Is being straight essential to the story? i don't think so

The Gallop of the gay population was of one thousand people.  That number is way too small.

There could be 100% of movies having a gay person in it but it never comes up because no one gives a shit about their sexuality. So by that logic every movie that does not specify its gay people has any number of them in it.

So claiming that you specifically have one or two gay people in your movie is suggesting that everyone else is straight. That means movies where the minorities are specified have actually less minorities in there than movies where it's not specified. 

So yes, Abrams is a homophobe by underrepresenting gay people.