Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-25764680-20180323211643/@comment-4010415-20180325153438

@JoeCoast It's not about wanting more LGBT characters to exist for the sake of there being more. It's about having more representation of your group, when entertainment media has been dominated by straight white characters for a long time now.

Besides, even though the people of the LGBT community are a minority, it's not like they're such a tiny minority that they make up 0.0000000000001% of the world's population. There are a hell of a lot more LGBT people than that, but entertainment has still been 99.999999999999% straight characters.

And representation does matter. Even young African American children get excited when they see characters who look like them. "A black princess, just like me! I wanna be Tiana for Halloween!" "A black superhero, just like me! I wanna be Black Panther for Halloween!"