Thank you - and especially for the link, which I have not had time to read fully yet, but will certainly do so. Mmm, I think people like me (heterosexual female) are always going to struggle to convey the experiences of homosexual males, because there is no way for us to have lived them. I was so chuffed you thought I did the coming out thing well. :D
I can certainly understand the frustration of someone who is gay at homosexual relationships always being portrayed as something different, almost (speaking literally, rather than judgmentally) abnormal, however pro-gay (if that is the right term) the author may be. As a Buffy fan, I can recall the debate over Tara's death, where a very positive and entirely unsensational representation of a gay relationship ended with a death that many felt betrayed by.
Where I was coming from with this story was a frustration with a number of fanfics assuming that the HP wizarding world would be very liberal in their attitudes, whereas I feel a very repressed and repressive attitude would be more likely (eg the pure-blood Slytherins having no girls on the Quidditch team, witches marrying and having children at a very young age, no single parents, no gay characters etc. JKR simply saying, post publication, that Dumbles was gay does not, in my opinion, cut it).
Plus, of course, Straight-and-horrified!Ron is always fun to play with! ;D
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Date: 2008-10-24 09:09 pm (UTC)I can certainly understand the frustration of someone who is gay at homosexual relationships always being portrayed as something different, almost (speaking literally, rather than judgmentally) abnormal, however pro-gay (if that is the right term) the author may be. As a Buffy fan, I can recall the debate over Tara's death, where a very positive and entirely unsensational representation of a gay relationship ended with a death that many felt betrayed by.
Where I was coming from with this story was a frustration with a number of fanfics assuming that the HP wizarding world would be very liberal in their attitudes, whereas I feel a very repressed and repressive attitude would be more likely (eg the pure-blood Slytherins having no girls on the Quidditch team, witches marrying and having children at a very young age, no single parents, no gay characters etc. JKR simply saying, post publication, that Dumbles was gay does not, in my opinion, cut it).
Plus, of course, Straight-and-horrified!Ron is always fun to play with! ;D