[ SECRET POST #2542 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2542 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

so you'd rather writers pull a dumbledore than create openly gay main characters from the start?

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT, but I think there's a big difference between, "We're revealing that this character is bi/gay during the current run of the show/books" and "Hey, now that the books/show is over? Yeah, this character was TOTALLY actually gay the whole time!"

[mechanosapience]

Would it still be pulling a Dumbledore if the reveal happened while the show was still airing, as opposed to after it had been finished?

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ayrt

No? I didn't say I wanted it to happen AFTER a show/book series was over, but during. I just don't want show writers to go like, "we need queer representation, so we're going to introduce a gay character now, who's not important for the story or even interesting beyond being gay." I want them to make their main characters gay. In season one, in season five, I don't care. I want interesting characters I care about to be gay. I don't want to be told that all the interesting characters are straight, but I don't get to complain about that because "hey we also have a gay dude who appears once every ten episodes." Is that so hard to understand? I want the Dean Winchesters, the Will Grahams, the Stiles Stilinskis of popular shows to be gay. Not some extra who gets one line every now and then.

[(Anonymous)]

What do you mean, pull a Dumbledore? In the context of the secret, that's ridiculous. Rowling added that as trivia, it isn't even in the books. That has nothing to do with a relationship that happens to be gay be realized.

Characters can be "gay from the start" but they don't have to be, either. They can be bi, or situationally bi, or maybe the orientation doesn't matter. As a gay person, I'm less interested in a token gay character than seeing more gay relationships.

[(Anonymous)]

Or characters can be "gay from the start" and it simply never comes up, because their sexual preferences are irrelevant to the story as experienced by the focal characters.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously. Sheesh, it's almost like gay people are human beings whose entire lives don't have to revolve around their sexuality. Who could possibly want that?