>Except BTTF doesn't mention gays or trans people. If it did, you'd see a lot more of the major cultural shifts, especially surrounding trans rights and trans acceptance.
Well, rights or no rights, they are still a quite small minority -- say 10% of the population for both. And that's the big number -- because the more relevant for a movie number, that of "trans people" + "gay people that you can tell from straight people" (e.g. with clear stylistic choices in clothes etc) is much much smaller.
So, unless the script calls for it, they'd only show one in a movie with like 5-10 people in the whole cast if they want to go out of their way to include the "token gay guy".
Well, rights or no rights, they are still a quite small minority -- say 10% of the population for both. And that's the big number -- because the more relevant for a movie number, that of "trans people" + "gay people that you can tell from straight people" (e.g. with clear stylistic choices in clothes etc) is much much smaller.
So, unless the script calls for it, they'd only show one in a movie with like 5-10 people in the whole cast if they want to go out of their way to include the "token gay guy".