The studios do distribute a load of crap films.

If this film is crap and I can't say it is because I haven't seen it but if it is I think the studio reaction (assuming that Lucas hasn't pulled that out of his bucket of chicken) is more to do with the financial downturn than race.

It does seem very cheap of George to play the race card defense.

What about the first major motion picture about gay airmen in World War 2 George?

Racism is a bigger social issue but cinematographically it's kind of covered, where as with gay American war heroes, male and/or female, there's a lot of room for coverage in there.

With conscription there must have been thousands of gay service men and women during the war.

So much so that even a bad film would be considered at least a step in the right direction.

George could have made one like Windtalkers only with gays speaking Polari and using the inscrutable hanky code instead of native Americans code talking in Cherokee and Choctaw.