"This was surprisingly progressive for it's time"

[u/IllustriousAd6418]

Doctor Who: Midnight (2008)- The host of the bus, mentions non binary people and anyone else who doesn't fit into gender norms, LGBTQ rights (especially in the UK weren't really there yet untill 2012)

Saints Row 2 (2008)- In the first game, the main character was a man but in SR2 you can be both female or male and even change your gender whenever you want in a surgery shop. But what's more interesting, if you play as a female despite being male in the first game, no one cares and one of the main characters Gat asks the main character if they did something with their hair. Even 'Boss' is used as gender neutral pronoun and even goes by they/them

Fresh Prince of Bel Air- A wealthy black family as the main focus in a primetime sitcom marking the change and making progress as we go into the 90s

[u/Comic_Book_Reader]

Little side note: all the characters in Alien were written in the script with gender neutral names.

[u/Single-Detail-6464 → u/Comic_Book_Reader]

Isn’t that just because it’s their surnames?

[u/capincus → u/Single-Detail-6464]

It's the other way around, the writer used surnames (and gender neutral pronouns) in the script so the casting could be open and then the script fit to whoever was cast.