Category talk:LGBTQ+ characters

Reasoning for category creation
Hi all, First of all, thank you again for giving me such a warm welcome and your hard work on the wiki throughout the years, making it such an amazing place :) When I first started reading up (though binging might be a better word here) on the Forgotten Realms lore on the wiki and found the Gender and sex article I was absolutely blown away by how many references to LGBTQ+ folk there were within the official media, and how much support they have gotten from FR media authors (such as Ed Greenwood himself most notably!). I would perhaps even that as far as fantasy settings go, this one is the most inclusive I've seen. With the release of Baldur's Gate 3 I imagine a lot of people flocked here, and seeing how the game turned up the amount of queer content to 11, I imagine a significant number of them fall within the queer/LGBTQ+ category (myself included). Because of this, in order to further increase inclusiveness and visibility of such content within the universe, I wanted to start to start marking characters who are anyhow lesbian/gay/bi/trans etc. I generally feel (some might disagree with me here) that the fact that things like same-sex relationships seem so mundane and accepted within societies in the realms (such as both random, insignificant NPCs casually dropping the fact that they have a partner of the same gender, and also such cases as the relationship of Aylin and Isobel Thorm) makes the universe feel so refreshing and appealing to people like me. Thus, I feel like outright stating that a character is homosexual/trans/bi directly within the body of the article might seem a little bit out-of-place, unless it is directly tied in with the way their character arc is presented (for instance in case of Mizhena or Nocturne). I think that starting a simple category with LGBTQ+ characters might be a good, balanced approach from my point of view. Would be very happy to hear thoughts from other people on this :)

PS: I tend to use the term "queer" in personal life a lot more often than LGBTQ+ since it's just more handy and is more and more prevalent nowadays, but since in some places (especially within the anglosphere) it was used as a slur in the past and can make some people incomfortable, I've named the category "LGBTQ+ characters" and will create a redirect to here from "Queer characters". -EngineerDali (talk) 18:12, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I saw that the category page was removed for the term being out of universe (which is fair) - would something among the lines of "Sildur characters" be more appropriate, at least for highlighting trans people within the realms? Likewise "Thruss characters" for lesbian women etc. -EngineerDali (talk) 18:15, 1 October 2023 (UTC)