[ SECRET POST #2247 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2247 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 056 secrets from Secret Submission Post #321.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - troll ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[aygul.livejournal.com]

Yes! Especially when one of the characters does kind of ping gaydars.

Sometimes I just want to read about the characters I love being queer people with relateable experiences, rather than straightish people who happen to fall in love/lust and keep it totally divorced from their identities.

[(Anonymous)]

Funny, usually when characters ping my gaydar, I'm more willing to believe they're virgins/haven't had a gay experience... Not that I'm terribly bothered either way unless it doesn't jive with my interpretation of them, but I'm a little irked by the implication that because somebody is gay, they obviously must be sexually experienced. God forbid somebody is a virgin!

[aygul.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying that because someone's gay, they must be experienced. And the secret said nothing about virginity.

The majority of the characters I care about are in their 30s and up. So general virginity doesn't come up often, but I don't have a problem with it if it's believable. And I get that depicting them with a lack of experience is an easy way to stay true to a canonical history of heterosexuality. However, it's usually the case that at least one could be realistically written as already knowing they're bi/gay (and having acted on it or been out in the past or had some of the common experiences people have in the gay community, which I think is what OP was referring to when they mentioned histories). I just personally prefer reading about that over it always being two late-in-life lesbians/gay men.