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⌈ Secret Post #2342 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Why do people obsess over how "canon" their ship is?

[(Anonymous)]

but most gay people I know would rather just have gay characters be represented as gay from the get-go, instead of having a slash pairing canonized (has that seriously ever happened?), seemingly out of nowhere

Actually, there's a significant portion of the queer community--and I'd count myself among them--who's delighted when seemingly straight characters are revealed as queer. It's what happens in life, after all, isn't it? We don't all go around wearing nametags announcing our sexualities, which is why coming out is a lifelong process for all but the most famous of us. (And, to a certain extent, the most stereotypically/visibly queer, but even then...I've known quite a few butch straight women and femme straight men.) There are always new coworkers, friends, etc. who don't know until we or someone else tells them, often months or even years after we've become acquainted.

Which isn't to say that it's not also good to have "gay characters be represented as gay from the get-go"; just that there's plenty of room for both modes of storytelling, and relying exclusively on either is probably less great than being able to draw upon both.

Also, interestingly, the process you describe isn't actually all that different from what happened with Dumbledore, minus the fact that Rowling couldn't bother explicitly confirming his sexuality in text (not that I'm still bitter about that, or anything). But plenty of fannish people read the 7th book and said, "Wow, so Dumbledore/Grindelwald is so far to this side of subtext that it's basically text, right?" And then "seemingly out of nowhere" to the metric ton of readers who hadn't picked up on that dynamic, Rowling did that interview in which she announced that Dumbledore was gay and in love with Grindelwald.