To add to the discussion. I like all the companions, some more, some less, as it usually is. I even want to do a playthrough of female Dark Urge/somebody else and then hook them up and I am straight white guy.
Having said that, the sheer number of gay characters in the game, which often feel forced or added just for the sake of it doesn't make me pleased to see that. It doesn't help that all companions are player-sexual. Would it be too much to ask for 1 or 2 characters that are not player-specific? For example making Shadowheart only attracted to men (though Half Orcs could have harder time, similar to Drow having a bit of a reputation), while Gale/Wyll/Halsin anyone really could only be attracted to females.
When I was romancing Shadowheart as a male Gnome and still had Wyll offer me a dance, I felt insulted. Because it felt like my choice of romance partner wasn't respected. It's something that companions should get. If you romance a character, other companions should get A BLOODY HINT!!!
It gets worse, as many important characters you interact with turn out to be gay for some reason: Isobel, One of the Deep Gnomes in the Grymforge, Omelum and his Hobgoblin partner, just to name a new. It often doesn't add anything to the game and only seems to distract from it. While I don't see Larian making preference specific versions of the game, would it be too much to at least add a setting: "Limited lgbttv content".
This isn't me bashing any gay people or having something against them, but in general I think that there is a way to add men-to-men, female-to-female romance without making it obnoxious or trying to score some points with LGBTTV community. Anyone remembers how Activision director came out on stage wearing a pride pin on his chest, before his news about Diablo Immoral or 4, can't remember at thin point?
As for good written gay characters, allow me to introduce Arcade and Veronica from Fallout New Vegas. Great characters first and foremost, who you only learn that they are not into opposite sex, by actually getting to know them better. Plus in 2010, they had plenty of characters like this, but if you wanted to interact with them in a bit of more romantic way, you needed a perk. So, it stands a reason, we should be able to toggle it in a setting.
