Yeah, but the *** and ***** **** was usually contained in its own niches and didn't spill out where it wasn't welcome. I'm not going to pretend I like homo **** existing, but I was perfectly fine to let them have their own degenerate pozzhole and leave the rest of us alone.
Also, the main difference is that the above characters existed to please whatever audience the author was entertaining, while the Western liberals do it out of malice. It's less about "representation", and more about taking something their ideological opponents enjoy and poisoning the proverbial well.
It's the reason why all the woke **** falls flat on its face. Everyone, even the people they're allegedly pandering to, can tell it wasn't done out of genuine passion, but spite.