[HPforGrownups] Re: the gay question (longish)

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 4033

Flying Ford Anglia wrote:

> <<Those of us who want to can draw our own conclusions on the sexual
> orientation of some characters, without the need for tokenism  (hey,
> another -ism!).>>
>
> Susan replied:
>
> <But what if she put two or three in -- or plans to? That would not
> necessarily be tokenism.>
>
> [Although I'm responding to Susan's points, I've expanded on this
> topic a bit, with apologies to those who've already discussed it to
> death].
>
> Bearing in mind the number of younger readers these books have, is it
> feasible that JKR will write in several gay characters?

Look, this may be painfully obvious, but I'm going to point it out anyway.
JK Rowling says that the way she works is that she writes for the books for
herself.  Ergo, she will put in gay characters if she wants to do so.  If
she doesn't she won't.

Given that this is her modus operandi (and that it works so well), I am
personally rather uncomfortable with trying to dictate to her what she
should want to write about.

Peg Kerr
Who once wrote a book retelling a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale using
gay characters, simply because she wanted to.

http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/m391/d-lena/PegKerrBibliog.html