The widespread liberal '' choice '' feminism and social media activism rampant with awful takes by social reject teenagers and young adults who aren't qualified to make any sort of insightful comment on any subject, have made it so that conforming and consenting to stereotypes and reclaiming them is the biggest form of rebellion towards the heteronormative, homophobic society. Fighting back against stereotypes is considered self-hating, misogynist, racist or homophobic. The critical analysis of homosexual male and female stereotypes in media has left the building somewhere around the early 2010s, as has the marketability of homosexual male and female characters.

But there's also a lack of passionate gay and lesbian artists and content creators (in their perspectives industries) in the first place. I've also seen several gay artists who once created exclusively gay content get hired and then mostly disappear completely from creating the content they used to. Besides that, most gay content in cartoons, TV shows and video games aren't being made by gay people, but often by non-binary demisexual heteroflexibles or just straight people. We aren't producing our own representation, and I reckon it will stay that way for a long, long time.

With all that said, there's nothing necessarily wrong with homosexual characters who happen to be more or less stereotypical. It all comes down to what the writer does with them and whether the character is just a one note stereotype or just happens to inhabit stereotypical traits while being a complex character. But that often doesn't seem to be the case.