DBD Character Sexualities (Suggestions from an LGBTQ+ person)

I do understand what you're saying, but look at things this way: to most people, hetero is the norm. It is the default. Everyone is hetero until stated otherwise. When in reality, it's not like that. Homosexuals are no minority. It's not Like 80% are straight and 20% are of another sexuality. Yet that is whar most people think. Because the representation in media is so rare. It's not normalized, and as long as it's not normalized, we absolutely need to represent LGBT identities more. This will not be done with after having LGBT characters in dbd. But it helps. The more media endorses that we humans are not all alike, the sooner the sexualities of characters will be truly No Deal anymore.

That's what I was trying to say. No one should need a good reason to be gay. You just are. And representing that reality is a good thing, as opposed to the everyone is hetero by default brainwash we have going on since ages.

I just wanted to show you my pov tho, i'm not following the social Media stuff so idk about how 'annoying' they are about it.

Anyway, have a good day

To go "he's in the closet" when they say he has a girlfriend just to make him be gay is like if they mentioned Meg having girlfriend but say "she was just expirementing" to have her be straight.

It's fine if they want to allude to more varied sexualities for their characters. But I think allusion is as far it should go.

Yes, we have some context for these characters through their backstories (sometimes expanded upon in The Collection), but remember that all of that was BEFORE they were taken by the Entity. We still can use these details to build estimates of the personality and attitudes that we'd expect for some of these characters, but ultimately who they were beforehand no longer matters.

These characters are relatively blank slates with a few implied personality traits for players to project themselves into. Dwight is not Dwight when you play him, Dwight is you. He's defined as a "Reluctant Leader", but really he's whoever his player is. He can be a sneaky-sneak avoiding capture, or a bold daredevil following the killer around. The Trapper can be a relentless threat, a "friendly" competitor, or absent-minded (a la Samination's animated take on him). They can really be whoever you want them to be (including sexuality), which is an element of inclusivity I fear would be lost upon assigning hard labels to these characters.

Besides, I like to think that the Entity's Realms are the rough equivalent of a multiverse (hence why there can be multiples of one survivor in a trial or many versions of one map). There's no reason why the Dwight that's described through his provided lore has to define every Dwight in the game. There could be a popular Dwight, a gay Dwight, or even a bada** Dwight mixed in among the nervous ones, but no one could know the difference except the person playing him who made that decision. BHVR has given us their take on the character, but every player is still free to apply their own narrative and establish the character as they prefer.

Plot twist: Ace isn't just his name. :P

As a straight male Asian, I feel like the pigeonholing of the only Asian male survivor as obviously gay/asexual is offensive and not only is anti-inclusive but further perpetuates negative stereotypes of Asian males.

Tbh I really hope they make David King bisexual just because I see so many people unironically say he can’t be into dudes due to the fact he’s super masculine. It would be a nice way to challenge gay stereotypes 👍

My moms have a son and they're gay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm not against people of different sexualities. I only have some problems when putting this in games/movies etc:

1) You can't get it right for everyone. If you add one LGBTQ character who is... let's say gay. Then there will be players wo say: "There needs to be a lesbian one now. Else you are sexist!" and so on an on. There will be always people who want their sexuality considered regardless if there are only 10 people with this or not.

2) If it is done bad, it get's annoying. Think of "The Last of Us 2". Sadly this is often the case, because it "needs" to be in this game/movie.

3) Sadly: The more LGBTQ people are "demanding" to be considered everywhere, the more other people get annoyed and won't listen anymore. And you clearly do not want this.

I would be completely fine with 1-2 killers and 1-2 survivors who are LGBTQ, but not more. Else it would be too much.

Or leave it as it is now: if you imagine character X is gay, than be it like that for you. This would be best for everyone. No one gets offended or forgotten.

As someone who has met a lot of LGBT people, and is Q (questioning) themself, I think it's safe to say that I want them to keep sexuality out of lore completely, unless it is NECESSARY to their story. Head canons are very liked and should be able to be kept in this community.

That being said, LGBT people are and will always be a minority.

So, out of all the characters, I narrowed it down to a few that I think could be LGBT (only survivor) realistically, because in reality not a lot of people will be LGBT.

Dwight- A dev themself said they like DwightxDavid, so he should probably be bi, at least.

David- Bi. ^

Kate- Probably straight, but some of her outfits suggest otherwise.

Meg- Lesbian.

Nea- Bi

Ace- If he's not straight, he's gay. Not in between.

Those are the ones I narrowed down for MY head canons. As I said, I hope they keep sexuality out of lore unless it is needed to explain more.

<3

Yeah. Jake is mine ;) (So he's straight, in my HC. Out of the two rebels, Nea is the more likely to be LGBT. By the way she dresses and stuff. Jake and Claudette are also a ship I'm pretty sure to the devs *their matching outfits*)

I don't think Nea is LGBTQ only because she dresses like a tomboy. I dress myself like one too, because it's more comfortable and practical and I'm straight.