Wow, you don't like homosexuals do you?
I'm in the armed forces, there are loads of homosexuals in here, I get on fine with them, go to war with them, go clubbing with them, but really, does it have to even be discussed as a possible feature for a game such as DF?
There's no reason why not, because one of DF's goals is to simulate fictional (and fantastical) cultures with a rather precise level of detail. If you look at the development goals (especially the older lists), it's well within the scope of the game.
After all, how could it not be? Sexuality is an extremely important aspect of both personal life and culture. It could be an interesting thing to explore, and it doesn't make much sense to ignore something that important when trying to model societies and people. If you look at societies past and present, how they treat gender roles, sexuality, and sexual orientation winds up being a very prominent subject, and those all tie into each other and other things. For that matter, we're not even anywhere close to approaching the kind of social detail Toady and Threetoe talk about, yet we already have things like gender-restricted entity positions (e.g. elves and their war princesses).
As an aside, I have no idea why people in this thread keep mentioning statistics with regards to how many people in a given dwarven fortress would be gay. Why are we assuming that a fantasy-world society of fantasy-world people based on both dwarves and medieval Europe would have the same ideas or statistics regarding sexual orientation as modern-day America does, especially when that's not even true of societies in the
real world? The most interesting thing to come of this, after all, would be how different civs/races deal with these things in contrast to one another (in addition to individuals).
Also, there's
this post:
(someone had asked if there would be plans for non-heterosexual creatures)
That's actually a good question. A friend of mine recently asked me "Is Dwarf Fortress heteronormative?" jokingly, but I seriously do wonder that.
Heterosexual marriage, children and all that went in fairly quickly to establish world gen with simple, ongoing histories, and so you'd be able to continue on your possibly isolated fortresses as well. We've even got a marriage sphere, since gods of marriage are very common. These days it might look like a political stake driven into the ground, but that's simply not the case. As for where it goes from here, it's sort of a choice of which realities you want to model, which you want to idealize, which you want to omit, and how they are all prioritized -- I've added lots of physical characteristics now, without racism, and that more or less points toward adding sexual orientations and having them all merge in naturally in every society.
(emphasis mine)
So yeah, that's probably the most we've heard from him on this subject in particular.