How to Handle LGBT (etc) Customization Properly?

[HomingPidgeon]

If you don’t have specific questions and are more just looking for general dos and donts, the best places to start are the Trans and Gay representation threads, which probably have most or all of the information you’re looking for:

https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/trans-discussion-in-and-out-of-choice-games/21305

Gay Representation in ChoiceScript games?

After a certain gay character was killed off in a certain WIP (and my comments were almost certainly unable to save him), I realised that there are actually worryingly few gay characters in these games, as most characters (ROs especially) are bi or MC-sexual. While it’s true that, for example, when I played the game, Carl in Psy High was a gay boy, I know that he was straight for any straight female characters, and a girl, Carla, for straight male and gay female characters. Now, as a player, I’…