In recent news, or if you've ever been on Tumblr, people have been wanting Captain America to be gay. Many people have been shipping Steve Rogers with sidekick and best friend, Bucky Barnes. I just saw "Civil War" and loved it; and if Steve were gay, I would not like the movie any less. The fact that him being gay would not destroy the movie for me. It wouldn't take any of the "badassery" away from him and Bucky beating the absolute crap out of Iron Man (It would become "bae" goals, actually).

Being gay does not make the character different, nor does it make his ideals, morals, or personality different. He would still be Steve Rogers, Captain America, the one who saves the Earth while always leaning towards what is right. I would see Steve Rogers and see nothing besides a man who does what is right, and being gay does not change who he is as a person, which is something that is true about all people no matter sexual preference. If you come out as any sexuality, your personality does not change, and neither does your interests or anything. So, for Captain America, nothing would change.

I first got inspired to write this article because of a woman some may have heard named Tomi Lahren, a political commentator who was not happy with the people who wanted Captain America to have a boyfriend. In the video, she claims that she is unhappy with LGBT relationships, “Shove[d] down her throat” in the media and in general. She voiced her unhappiness about how two men cannot share the same screen without being intimate, and that is where I started asking questions.

First of all there are multiple, in like the hundreds of thousands, times where two dudes (or women) have shared the screen and have not been romantically involved. It has only been in recent times when there have been homosexual or lesbian relationships between main characters. But Tomi, have you not realized that two main characters, one male one female, have not been able to go through a movie without being involved romantically? To the point where the main characters hate each other and in the end fall in love. Say, for example, Anna and her love interest Kristoff in "Frozen" (a movie you mentioned), where the two end up falling in love because of a music number. There is a longer list of films with that description than there is with two male or female characters fall in love. Or to the point where a male and a female character are forced into a relationship through bad writing so there can be a romantic relationship in the movie, like Black Widow and Hulk in "Avengers: Age of Ultron."

There is nothing about gay culture being “ramrodded” down our throats; we are just being exposed to it more because it is a part of our culture. The only thing that is being ramrodded is the gay-shaming ideas that it is “immoral” to be anything but straight, and that is going down the LGBT children’s throats. You are using something you don’t care to try and understand to make yourself seem like a victim.

Do you forget that many are still being discriminated against for this? People are being murdered for being gay, and you want to feel victimized about a character being gay in a movie. No one is calling you a bigot for being uncomfortable, but I’m saying you need to really know that if you feel victimized because you think something is being shoved down your throat, you need to understand that America is changing. Tomi, there is nothing wrong with being gay, until it is brought into television and film.

Do I want Captain America to be gay? Sure, I believe Marvel will make a lot of people struggling with life happy. Will it be a challenge? Yes, because the comics need to stay intact. Those are really the primary source for what you see on the screen, and Marvel already took an unpopular jump with Cap saying, “Hail Hydra” in the comics. But that changed Cap's whole person; being gay will not. He won't be a whole different person and he won't be this entirely new character. We don't see Steve Rogers behind closed doors with any ladies or gents, so being gay would not affect the movies (which is what most people want) at all. The moral is you that can’t make everyone happy, and that gay culture is not being ramrodded down our throats.