Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-14138255-20171205173000/@comment-2600:1017:B124:277E:5C93:7F1B:1F56:A519-20171210022713

Illia is actually the 4th character in RWBY to be shown to be a member of the LGBT community, she's just The first named character. The first was a fanboy in Vol 3 who held up a poster of Scarlet of team SSSN, a headshot with a heart around it (this may imply that Scarlet is LGBT but it's doesn't confirm it). If you look carefully at the still image in the first episode of volume 5 you'll see two guys out on what appears to be a date given the heart shaped plant their holding. I give RT props for including LGBT characters, or rather choosing to reveal that there are LGBT characters in ways that are organic to the story that don't make them feel forced or shoehorned in.

-Defcon Deceiver