This statement is BS, is based in a lie by omision. Yes, less than 100 die... by the inmediatly explosion. But, at least were 4,000 casualties from the radiation in the next days, months and years. Even TODAY there's still people suffering from colateral damage, to an stimate of 60,000 people.
Besides, the Bhopal was an air-poison disaster while Chernobyl is a radioactive disaster. Both can't be compared. The first got a lot of immediate damage while the second is a REALLY long-term damage, the "won't be habitable for the next 1000 years" kind of damage.
Well, yes. Is good to show lgbt without having to forcefully put them in the trama. LGBT people can be background characters too, the are normal people doing their own business outside the protagonist problems.