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I'll tell you why:

Because it, kind of like Brokeback Mountain all those years earlier, appreciates that homosexuality and the gay community are not one in the same. While the gay community is extremely important and should never be downplayed, media always tends depict gay people as connected to it or at the very least evoking many of the same aspects and tropes.

This isn't an unfair thing to depict, far from it, but it has the unfortunate result of making many gay characters feels rather same-y, occasionally even one note.

Offerman's character depicts a very accurate thing that doesn't get as much attention in media: the straight acting man discovering his sexuality late in life. With the exception of his piano playing and his penchant for wine and setting the table for elaborate dinners, his character has none of the telltale "gay" aspects you typically find in media, nor does he develop them. In fact his character aspects (survivalist, paranoid, shut in, loner, even a hint conservative) are generally not associated with gay characters, out of fear of depicting them in a poor light.

That's not at all to suggest other depictions of gay men are wrong or bad, Bartlett's character is very well done too. The characters of Bill just feels more notable and fresher in our current media landscape because we see it far less often.

Read his books, but only if you're a lefty. I showed my boomer parents and they hated it.

I know he's liberal in real life, but the way he plays Ron in parks and rec is how I wish conservatives actually were in real life.

I'm sorry you're getting downvoted. You're allowed to like things and dislike things, as long as tolerance and respect are given for others' choices. It seems like you're doing that here.

Acceptance for something you like and enjoy is pretty easy and natural. It's a bit harder, and takes more thought and courage, to show respect and tolerance for things you don't like and don't enjoy, but you accept them anyway because it's the right thing to do and it's a part of being a human on this planet with billions of other humans. Grow up, lemmy.

As a good exercise for personal growth, you should ask yourself why seeing that gives you the heebie-jeebies.

You are a weak person

Honestly, thanks for still watching it anyway. Don't know why you are getting downvoted. If it was a touching love story about morbidly obese people, I would get the same heebie jeebies.

You are part of the change that needs to happen in the world, we can't help what makes us feel queasy, but you both respecting their performance, the story AND your own sensibilities IS how we achieve progress.

Proud of you, no sarcasm.

Do you also refer to romantic stories between man and a woman (traditionally referred to as "love stories") as "heterosexual stories"?

I disagree.

The characters involved happen to be gay, but there's nothing in the scenarios that are exclusive to gay couples. The same messages can be taken from it even if they were a hetero couple.