I don't like when writers make homosexuality the main focus of a story. ever. it turns homosexuality into something it's not, and generally comes across as portraying it badly. someone, quite awhile back, wrote a journal entry about that, and why it peeved him so bad, which was brilliantly written, which i quite stupidly forgot to add to my memories so now i can't find it. >.<
actually, i think this (http://limyaael.livejournal.com/214314.html) is it. think. probably.
eh. mostly, i'd like to see homosexuality treated as a non issue. prejudice and the like happens, yes, and i wouldn't want someone to *not* put that in, but at the same time, homosexual relationships are *not* about homosexuality. they're about love and understanding. i want the focus on that, not about the cliched textbook coming out story.
granted, you did the coming out thing VERY well. i'm not saying stories of that type are all bad, just that they tend to work the same damn way, when most actual GLBT people have vastly different experiences.
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Date: 2008-10-24 08:41 pm (UTC)I don't like when writers make homosexuality the main focus of a story. ever. it turns homosexuality into something it's not, and generally comes across as portraying it badly. someone, quite awhile back, wrote a journal entry about that, and why it peeved him so bad, which was brilliantly written, which i quite stupidly forgot to add to my memories so now i can't find it. >.<
actually, i think this (http://limyaael.livejournal.com/214314.html) is it. think. probably.
eh. mostly, i'd like to see homosexuality treated as a non issue. prejudice and the like happens, yes, and i wouldn't want someone to *not* put that in, but at the same time, homosexual relationships are *not* about homosexuality. they're about love and understanding. i want the focus on that, not about the cliched textbook coming out story.
granted, you did the coming out thing VERY well. i'm not saying stories of that type are all bad, just that they tend to work the same damn way, when most actual GLBT people have vastly different experiences.