Lupin and Sirus... gay?

[Theresa]

Susan, your arguement was well thought out and written. It does give 
me pause in my mindset of "no-way I don't see that". However, I still 
think what Mr Cuaron was implying was the werewolf stigmatism. I only 
say this because of past experiences. The first was from my 
childhood. A friend of mine who had a disfigurement and was often 
told she could not join in with us for activities because there was 
concern about 'someone like her' bothering others or some such 
rubbish. In fact when we did plays in school the teacher had her 
working the sets and never gave her a chance for a role and she was a 
great actress. Another friend of mine was treated the same way 
because she had epilepsy. 'She might have a fit if we gave her a role 
in the play.' Anyway, that was why I thought the line in the 
movie, 'someone like me' was just in prejudice to his being a 
werewolf. I know Mr Cuaron also said Lupin was like your gay uncle 
you don't talk about but again I thought that was in referrence to 
the lycanthropy stigmatism. He seems to have used other analogies 
filming for the actors to understand their roles better.
As for the love between Sirius and Remus shown in the movie, well I 
didn't think of 'gay' there either because my very hetrosexual 
husband and his best friends are very similar. They stand up for one 
another, they sit and listen when one is troubled about something and 
yes they even hug one another. So their behavior in the film did not 
say 'they are gay' to me, just really close brotherly type friends. 
However, I do see how it could be construed that way and I would have 
no issues with it either way myself. I always wondered what was up 
with only James getting a girl when JKR mentioned Sirius was 
supposedly quite handsome while a student at Hogwarts. I really will 
not mind if it turns out they were a couple at least then they would 
have had 'someone' while James had Lily. And also if they were a 
couple maybe that is why Remus forgave Sirius for the infamous prank. 
Maybe someday JKR will let us know about both the prank and if they 
were a couple. Personally, I am more curious about what the line 
Alfonso had in the film about 'Lily being there when no one else was' 
means to Remus. It was never in the books so that might be the 
foreshadowing JKR mentions was in the film. Also, if he was in love 
with her won't that throw a wrench into the Remus and Sirius as a 
couple theory? Or maybe not.

Theresa
who is anxious for the workday to be over today to see if the UPS 
truck delivered my POA DVD so I can watch these scenes again AND see 
the other 'goodies' on the disk. Why is 5:00 so far away?!