Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-995176-20170126010538/@comment-734582-20170126142750

QuakingStar wrote: I have no clue why people always attempt to gay-ify characters and stuff. If the writer makes them gay that's cool.. if not then stop trying to make it out that way. The problem is that because it's been such a taboo topic for so long, a lot of shows had "officially not gay but they certainly are" characters. Even in today's culture, some shows have to go that option, e.g. Avatar: The legend of Korra went that route.

The result is that a lot of people nowadays assume that characters that act gay, are gay, even when it's not intended.

Besides, read this page, and you can see that Kishimoto certainly liked the homoerotic subtext trope:http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HoYay/Naruto