questions - the 'gay' one

[storm stanford]

No: HPFGUIDX 3965

  Hey - I'm not sure who wrote this but anyway (having swore off every mentioning anything related again)

  I'd have to say that I rarely read books 
  > > thinking "I wish they'd written a gay character into this" 

  I'm going to assume who ever said this is hetrosexual, As a wee kiddie it would have been great to see a slash charator in these books (of course they weren't written when I was a wee kiddie but if they had been.) you can have no idea how isolating it can be to never see yourself/life experance reflected back in anything - think about this (opps, buffy referance coming up)in one of the second series Buffy is sitting on the bed, arm around Angel having a smoochy moment then she looks at the mirror and she has her arm around no-one. 

  and even as an adult, when I read, watch tele, listen to pollies talk about our great society - there is nothing there reflecting my experance back at me. when hetro ppl do these sort of things - lots of role models. ppl talk about thier familes without having to consider that they might offend someone else by 'shoving your sexuality in my face' (hey I just mentioned my girlfriend's existance) 

  Now of course for lots of ppl there is nothing relecting thier life back at them, black ppl in predominatly white neighbourhoods, deaf ppl in hearing communities but this is why ppl do concragate in groups, in enclaves, have specific TV shows or litrature for that relection. And of course the slash community has an element of that too

  a week or so ago Jinx (I think) said something about how when she is reading she doesn't think of gender (I think it was, not sexuality) but later, when she is writing her self into the story - making it her own - then these issues come up for her. I'm pretty sure that we have all spent a long time 'writing ourselves' in to JKR's world - o/w we wouldn't be there! I see a lot of reflection of hetro relationships, and if I were a straight reader I would probely not see the absence of gay/lesbian/bi/trans ppl. but as I'm not, I do and (what I'm coming around to) is saying that it can't hurt to ask her, maybe it will promt her to give lavender another dimension to her charactor.

  alright, I'm back to swearing off never mentioning anything about gender or sexuality every again (until the next time!)

  storm


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