re: GLAAD Calls on Gaming Industry to Hire More LGBT Workers, Add More Gay Characters

That always reminds me of Spike Lee trying to go after Clint Eastwood for not casting black people in Flags Of Our Fathers.

Clint’s response was, amongst other things, that there weren’t any black soldiers at Iwo Jima and any black people involved on the US side would have been cooks on the ship because the military wasn’t integrated at that time.


Trying to make a serious piece, drama, action or otherwise, set in a specific time period in the past needs to have at least some semblance of realism or it takes people out of the work.

Ed O’Neill, best known as Al Bundy, ended up cut from one or more films as a result. Good actor but simply being known as Al Bundy meant that he couldn’t be taken seriously as a military officer in a court martial. Doing so took people out of the film and that is why he got cut.