Naoko created four queer male characters, all of them villains: the Amazon Trio in the manga and Banane for the SuperS movie. She describes all of them as "okama," a very politically incorrect word meaning an effeminate (gay) man who cross-dresses. (The word is roughly analogous to "tr*nny" in English.) It's also worth pointing out that the main villain in Toki*Meca was also revealed to be a transwoman. Naoko's issue doesn't seem to be with "gay men" then, so much as with transwomen / gender-nonconforming men.
Don't get me wrong: I don't think Naoko is some gross transphobic trashhole like a certain British bigot. Rather, I think that, like a lot of Japanese people, Naoko was very ignorant about trans identities and thoughtlessly replicated a lot of ignorant and harmful tropes in her work. It's been 12 years since Toki*Meca ended. Since then, Naoko's been interviewed by a transwoman journalist, a transwoman singer recorded covers for the 20th and 25th anniversary tribute albums, a transwoman played Kunzite in The Super Live, and a recent video game collaboration featured a non-binary model and had a campaign that seemed to center around the idea of inclusivity. I hope that this is a sign that Naoko is now a lot more educated on what it means to be trans and that, if she ever writes another manga, she won't portray trans people as villains, gag characters, or use gender reveals as plot twists.
(I've also never heard the rumor that Naoko designed Fiore before and I'm 100% certain that's not the case as she's said she had no involvement in the R movie, Fiore is just a modification of Ail, and his design doesn't match Naoko's aesthetic sense.)
Well I would start off with all of the people here by saying that I don't think that Naoko has any "aversion" to gay men. Hell she even admired and based many of the outfits of her characters on outfits designed by gay male fashion designers like but not limited to Thierry Mugler, Christian Dior, Gianni Versace etc,
Now I would argue that men in general don't play a major role in the manga. Aside from Mamoru and various male villains there aren't that many important male characters at all aside from some civilian characters etc. In fact I would even argue that in the manga atleast even Mamoru and the Inner and Outer Senshi are pretty much there in many points just to big up Usagi.
Just because she didn't have gay male characters in the manga DOES not mean she hates gay men. Just because a specific demographic isn't included by an author in a work of fiction dosen't mean the author hates that group. In fact I would rather have a series without a certain demographic rather then a series like what wokeists create with diversity check points with characters who have no real point but their identity and are usually written as unlikable Mary Sues and their stories are little more then the woke left versions of really every Christian Propaganda movie/series like God's Not Dead etc which I will go into later.
Also to MementoNepenthe. While she might have initially thought of making the Amazon Trio gay. I see no evidence of this. In fact in the manga I would argue that the only one who may be gay is actually Hawk's Eye. Tiger's Eye and Fisheye both tried to romance in Rei and Ami to trap them in their respective nightmares etc. Where as Hawk's Eye didn't try to romance Makoto but dressed as a female and tried to act as her best friend more or less like how Fisheye was in the OG 90s anime. You could argue Banane but given that many times Naoko Takeuchi changed her mind in her characters stories from her initial Materials Collection or even just chose to to use certain characters at all like say the Diana Fairy I honestly don't know what Banane would have been. I do depict him as gay in my fic but that is just because I use the Materials Collection as a guide for his personality
Also I completely reject your idea that transpeople should never be depicted as villains. This is the problem with many modern media. Transpeople are people like any others and just as good and just as bad as any other person. Yes LGBT people can be both heroes and villains in media and well written ones. This is the problem with many woke left series. They think that certain people like transsexual people can't be villains because it instills "transphobia." Which is nonsense because if a person really hates trans people they wouldn't do so because of a TV show but usually because of some other ideology like certain religions etc. Also a trans character can be written as a villain without the character or the story being transphobic. The same for gay characters or any other characters. To be honest I identify more with Zoisite on the OG Sailor Moon anime then any woke LGBT character created by modern far leftists. Zoisite is intelligent, cunning, sexy and has a very happy and functional relationship with Kunzite. While he was a villain he was never portrayed as evil because he was gay. Any more then villains like Beryl were portrayed as evil because she is a woman etc. In fact his relationship with Kunzite was even portrayed as a very sympathetic portrayal for their two characters. In fact I like Zoisite and Kunzite more then honestly any gay male created by any modern wokeists because again they usually tend to be unlikable Gary Stus or at worst even just victims who are beaten up or killed by homophobes. Honestly if any homophobic gang or whatever tried to beat up or kill Zoisite or Kunzite they would probably meet a terrible and bloody fate. In fact I would rather be a powerful gay villain then a weak, beaten up and abused gay hero. It is like how I once said that I would rather worship a Devil that loves me as opposed to a god that considers me a pebble in his shoe. If given the choice I would rather be a Juliette vs. a Justine. I would rather be a Lilith over an Eve. I would rather be a Jolene over a Karen, a Serena Joy or an Aunt Lydia. All though I would rather be a strong willed and good person I also won't sacrifice myself for anyone and if people come at me trying to make me the sacrifice then you better believe I will play the villain and play it well.
When you treat trans people or LGBT people like perfect angels you remove their humanity and try to make them adhere to a standard they can't possibly adhere to likewise if you demonize them you do the same just in the opposite direction and portray them as monsters they aren't. Which again is the ideological splitting common to Dualistic, Extremist and Binary ideologies and religions that unfortunately dominate our world now. With everything as either White or Black, Good or Evil, God or Devil with no shades of gray in between and certainly no nuance. That is why I say that the woke cult is just a new Abrahamic religion. They have the same concepts of original sin, shunning disbelievers and the very same White and Black Dualistic thinking. Then again as my brother says as he is a Doctor almost every SJW out there usually is Borderline Personality disorder and splitting is common to them. To them you are either the best thing ever or the worst thing ever. You are their best friend who they love the most or their hated enemy they despise. You are either an Angel sent from above or a Devil from the pits of Hell with no gray area.
Which again this idea that to the woke cult only certain groups can be villains is nonsense. All people of all races, genders, sexual orientations and gender identities can be villains and just because you depict people from these groups as heroes or villains dosen't mean you are saying their entire group is. Which again just like the Abrahamic faiths and political extremist ideologies we are never just individuals we are always our identity groups because to quote the Marxist Mantra "The Personal is Political." This view is no different from extremist religions that see the Personal as being the Religious/Spiritual. they are the same authoritarians just wearing different hats and are two sides as the same coin. One group tries to censor things for being various iterations of racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobc and the other tries to censor things for being demonic/Satanic etc. Don't believe me look at how the right tried to censor everything they didn't like in the 80s and the 90s and how the left is doing it now. They even have the same enemies. Video Games, comic books, sexualized women in media, obscenity, "the male gaze." etc.
Again this is why I say that modern woke media is basically just Christian Media from the 90s/2000s or a pureflix film. To them the villain can only be an evil bigoted cis white male, the hero can only be some form of diversity etc. Just like in Christian Propaganda the villain is always a evil leftist Atheist and the hero a virtuous pious Christian.
Hell the woke cult dosen't even like certain forms of diversity. To give you an example take Marvel or DC comics for example. There are many say Christian characters some are good and wonderful people others are like William Stryker nuance. However consider this on another Abrahamic religion Islam we have Muslim heroes like say Monet St. Croix/M and even fake Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan etc. However do we have any ex Muslim heroes. We do have ex Christian characters many who left Christianity for many of the religions evil ideas like ex Christian women, LGBT people etc who left the religion due to it's homophobic, transphobia and exism. Any ex Muslim women, LGBT people in the comics. I can't think of a single character. They have numerous token hijabi characters in comics but how many ex Muslim Female heroes are there who left the faith because of the fact that her family forced her to wear the hijab or the religion's sexism. How many gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans ex Muslims who left the religion due to it's homophobia and transphobia or even one of these groups that may fear honor killing as many do. Yasmine Mohammed an ex Muslim women's rights activist said it was in many cases like leaving The Mafia. Are there any Muslim Villlains of the same bigotry and evil as William Stryker. Can't think of a single one. Hell Marvel even has characters like Dust who wear the burkha and this comic defends the Madonna/Whore concept and slut shaming that is the burkha. Dust even says that she wears it to avoid the lust of men's eyes so they can respect her which is basically again the Madonna/Whore concept that women must be sexless to be respected. Probably explains why modern wokeists think sexualized and feminine women can't be respected.
Bottom line this is why Western comics all suck as all of the villains are just the stereotypical "evil White Man/Woman" even an Iceman comic depicted these Christian Crusaders attacking LGBT people in a terrorist attack when in reality of any religion would be doing a mass terror attack in the West mind you it would probably be the Abrahamic religion that came after Christianity. You know the one I am talking about and I say this as the most Pagan Abrahamophobic woman you could ever talk to that isn't just promoting their death wholesale like say Langiva from The Black Death movie or even sacrifice them to the Black Pharaoh like Keziah Mason from Dreams in the Witch House as revenge for their treatment of her and who has various friends of these faiths as again many ignore the more toxic teachings in their faith as I do.
Bottom line the personal isn't political and you can have characters of any race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and religion etc because they are individuals and if written well it isn't necessarily bigoted, racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic etc. I would rather Naoko Takeuchi have no gay male characters at all then say I don't know a gay male character written like Captain Marvel or like a character from Life is Strange 2 or The Last of Us.
Also as for Okama if Okama means Queen well I know tons of gay guys who call gay men Queen especially Effeminate gay men and not always in a negative way.
Likewise for some who say that Naoko Takeuchi might disdain men for how Japanese society treats women. I would argue that while Japan does have sexism problems like in the West I would also argue that Japanese women are certainly not at least now really marginalized and discriminated on the sex based level not like in certain countries like I don't know Saudi Arabia or Iran etc. In fact in terms of Japan while women are usually expected to be housewives all though not all do and there are Japanese career women in Japan the husband is expected to give his wife all of his money he attains from his job. In return she manages the house's financial affairs and has control over it and gives both her kids and her husband an allowance. Likewise in divorce when it comes to Japan, Japan isn't a shared custody country. If a divorce happens custody of the child will only be awarded to one parent and it usually is always the mother and in many cases afterwards Fathers may never see their children again. So Japan does have patriarchal and misogynist issues however I would also argue that historically and even someway presently Japanese women have had more rights and have been more esteemed then say various Western Patriarchal empires/nations in the past or present or any given Islamic nation at any point in history or even various other Asian nations like China etc.
Though I point to the executives on that one. 
