What the left would like us to ignore is gays make up a tiny fraction of the population, well south of 2 percent.
Via Salon:
The most common criticism of the Amazing Spider-Man movies is that with the original Spider-Man trilogy so fresh in people’s minds, a reboot seems kind of… redundant.
This isn’t the revitalization of an aging franchise like J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek or Christopher Nolan’s Batman. With just five years between Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man, it’s no surprise that fans were hoping for a few more changes between the original and reboot versions. There’s no better example of this than the 2010 campaign for Donald Glover to be cast as the first black Spider-Man.
Of course, the role eventually went to Andrew Garfield, but the point had already been made: Sony had given the impression of being so resistant to change that it hadn’t even considered allowing non-white actors to audition for the role.
The good news is that Andrew Garfield does seem sensitive to the ramifications of having eternal underdog Peter Parker remain a straight, white man. Last year, he made this offhand comment during an interview with Entertainment Weekly, wondering why Peter Parker couldn’t be bisexual:
“I was like, ‘What if MJ is a dude?’ Why can’t we discover that Peter is exploring his sexuality? It’s hardly even groundbreaking! So why can’t he be gay? Why can’t he be into boys?”
Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb quickly dismissed this idea, but Garfield pressed on, mentioning Michael B. Jordan (soon to be starring in the Fantastic Four reboot) as a possible actor for the role of Peter Parker’s boyfriend. During a panel at San Diego Comic Con, Garfield went into more detail about his thoughts on the idea of a bisexual Peter Parker, explaining that while the questions he put across during the EW interview were “philosophical” rather than literal, it was worth thinking about in order to maintain the integrity of Spider-Man in the present day.