[HPforGrownups] Re: call to action

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 4012

Snuffles Macgoo wrote:

> lots of love, lots of married hetro ppl (not that there is anything wrong
> with that) can't we have a couple of spinsters living together?, something
> understated but a possiblity would be *nice*.

Well, that's kind of what I mean when I said that gay characters might not
show up unless explicitly identified. She integrates her other minorities so
well and so non-heralded, this is probably how she'd do it. But if it's open
to interpretation, would it satisfy the call for role model?

To amplify, one of my mom's best friends all through high school was Aunt
Cheink--part of her "Singing Hicks" group (all of whom were "Aunts"), etc.,
and Aunt Cheink lived with a lady named Ann or something, and all the times we
visited I never even thought about it and no mention was made. Aunt Cheink
meant swimming and those neat frozen pops you squeeze out of the wrapper and
singing. I didn't even know (or frankly, think much about it) until another of
Mom's old friends came to help when my babies were born (Mom having passed on)
and made a reference to Cheink's being a lesbian. So I posit the question, to
those who had no role models and knew themselves different, in this situation
would you have known? Or asked? Or been generally quicker on the uptake? And
would a pair of spinsters or wizards quietly living together in a subsequent
book be what you'd like to see?

--Amanda