I'm living proof that you can write comics about LGBT+ characters, and go full time on it. Last month I launched a kickstarter for a comedy fake kids book called Minority Monsters, which funded in under a week and is still going strong. I'm going to trot myself out as an example here. Because if you do it right, it's actually a lot of fun. It's easy for me, a author who has made a ten year career in writing 'those' kinds of stories to say that including LGBT characters (and all the letters which fall down the cracks) is not the big mission everyone makes it out to be. With all this negativity knocking around it's no wonder people get put off. The idea of having to deal with the backlash from the regular fans as well as the disappointment from the very people they're trying to include overwhelms and it's no wonder things are still the way they are. Writers don't want to shove a token member of a minority group into a story just because they think they should, and artists don't want to draw queer characters in fear of getting it wrong. I think at the end of the day we know that stories need to expand to include the diversity of the people who are reading them, but people are scared.
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