We wanted to see ourselves in the stories we read.
Have you noticed that every time you criticize a media for not having enough queer characters, a douchebag comes in and says "Why don't YOU do it better then?" Hence, now we do it.
Say goodbye to the Dead Gays -trope and welcome to the Queerwebcomic.com shop where there's so many queer characters, it'd be impossible to kill them all off!