Cheer up though, around TNG time he was starting to come around! Unfortunately his past homophobia and networks and support writers that weren't quite comfortable with the issues made for some hackneyed attempts. Also he was starting to get sick not long after.

Considering that even AFTER Roddenberry the only times we've seen openly LGBT goings on in Trek have been DS9's Mirrorverse, it takes more than one man in the group to discriminate.

GLBT Trek articles are really fascinating, actually. You should look some up!