On the other hand, there's a danger in going too far in that direction, too. I once had a high schooler tell me that if she's reading for fun she only reads LGBT fiction or books with explicitly gay characters. And while I can absolutely understand the place she was coming from, my first thought was to feel sorry for her because of books like Circle of Magic, which was a YA series originally published in the early 90s, and took about 10 books for the writer to convince the publisher to let her confirm two of the main characters as wlw, despite them raising children together.

Perhaps there's a difference between books, where the control is more centred around the author, and tv shows, where it's spread amongst everyone in the studio and the network execs?