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Does mainstream culture really "normalize" heterosexuality per se? Or is it more precisely monogamous pair bonding? If it's the latter, normalizing gay relationships without propaganda is a challenge because gay men by and large are not monogamous. About half of gay couples are openly non-monogamous. That's about an order of magnitude higher than the rate in hetero relationships. That's a huge cultural difference. Gay relationships in real life look different from hetero relationships, so depicting them accurately is not as easy as swapping out an NPC's wife for another man.
To consistently depict gay relationships in a misleading way that emphasizes their similarities to hetero ones and downplays their differences, for the purpose of "raising comfort levels" about gays and gay marriage, literally is propaganda. Relatively benign propaganda in my view, but still, that's what the word means.
I support the inclusion of gay characters in D&D products, but it smells a bit fishy when they always seem to be "more hetero than the heteros" -- e.g. you meet a pair of older gay men raising a child, etc. I would like to see them depicted in a way, at least once in a while, that acknowledges the fact that they're far more promiscuous and romantically hedonistic.
You're repeated this stupid talking point several times. Do you have any functional idea of why homosexuals are less monogamous as a group?
Could it have anything at all to do with the fact that it was ILLEGAL for them to participate in the "pair bonding" tradition of marriage until 20-FRICKEN-16! AKA LAST YEAR? And that many States are still trying to strip them of that right? Do you have any idea what that does to the pysche and the desire for a stable, continuous relationshp when you are told you're a second-class citizen who cannot participate in our Western traditions?
No. You don't. In fact I doubt you understand what you're even arguing. I suspect you heard a talking point from someone and have been beating the drum ever since without actually doing any reading on the subject.