User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-44988386-20200416234118/@comment-1789834-20200528201446

Actually his point makes perfect sense. I've also tried to avoid this thread for similar reasons. If we take a random character, call him Terry. Terry in one episode refers to himself as bisexual, and thus gains the bisexual category. Another episode refers to him as pansexual. A novel written by a series writer refers to him as omnisexual. A novel set in the far future of his timestream makes him gay. How do we categorise this character? All of the above? And let's say we give this character the 'LGBTQ+ character' category... what about characters that have never stated their sexual identity?

As someone who is in the LGBTQ+ myself, I just don't think all these categories are necessary. A list of those characters who self-identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ would suffice. I am of the opinion that referencing any sexual and gender identities on this wiki is so important for representation, and also because we are an encyclopaedia, meaning we should including everything that presents itself to us.

Also, I hate to be a downer, but IPs can be manipulated. The unknown editor who was an IP address could have been anyone. That's just my opinion on that small matter.