[ SECRET POST #2169 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2169 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get it. Never heard of such things, but that sounds like it might be interesting to do. I guess I've never come across a gay character that I've wanted to ship as straight before.

Still it should be ok. The character is is fictional afterall. If straight people can be depicted as gay why not the other way around? This majority rules business people are crying about has no relevance to the fictional world. There's no injustice being done, this is absolutely silly. Go back to your corners and fap to your pron of choice before you hurt yourselves.

[(Anonymous)]

There was a sci-fi novel I read when I was younger, by an author who was rather ahead of her time in terms of including gay characters. This novel, the fifth in a series, had a gay male character who was the platonic best friend of the main female character, and towards the end of the book ended up falling in love with her, as a result of some pretty weird circumstances. I thought it was really strange, especially given how open-minded the author seemed to be about homosexuality (although, come to think of it, I don't think any of her main characters were ever actually gay) but I could also understand, in the story, how it had happened.

The problem is when there aren't all those gay characters as in that author's worlds. In a fandom where, for example, the only canonically gay characters are quickly killed off or are objects of ridicule, and so far only one positively-portrayed queer character has survived, if we take her and turn her straight, there are no more gay characters to work with. Straight characters are depicted as gay so often because there are so very few actually gay characters out there.

[glo_unit]

If it's the book series I am thinking of the author actually isn't that super accepting.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

That sounds a lot like what happened in the later books of the Tower and Hive series by Anne MacCaffrey.

Laria - eldest daughter of Damia (daughter of the Rowan), had a guy assigned to her station who was gay. He'd been transferred from a post where he'd been caught in a love triangle and was emotionally burnt out, so Laria was all for being the good friend who would help him recover. Of course then their respective alien companions went into heat at the same time to push the two of them into bed... and resulted in Gay Guy and Laria ending up together, and Laria expecting a baby.

Anne MacCaffrey's attitudes to gay people has been rather questionable.