An incomplete list of some of the actual storylines that have been given to the heterosexual character Eddie Diaz:
Feeling pressured into dating someone of the opposite gender to fulfil traditional family structures only to realise that he felt severe panic at the idea of a future with her and only ever thought the idea of them would work
His first relationship going south because he’d internalised all these ideas about what it meant to be a tough man
Directly linking his Catholic guilt to his inability to let himself feel joy and his unwillingness to have sex with a woman, respectively
Being constantly pressured into dating someone of the opposite gender despite being extremely unwilling to because it “feels like he has to perform”
Being a romantic rival in a relationship between two men
Being homophobically hate crimed
