More gay discussion

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 4239

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:

> You see a same sex couple, and you think they're roommates," unless
> you see them holding hands, and then you think they're gay" -- but
> how do you make that transition unless you see them holding hands?
> And how do you get the point across, particularly, to a child? 

I'm about to utter a heresy against the 'show it, don't tell it' 
theology of fiction writing (while simultaneously dragging out a 
thread that everyone is tired of), but HOW ABOUT USING WORDS?

I mean, in real life, one way that I learn that a same-sex couple is 
not just roommates is when the one of them whom I know introduces me 
to "my spouse": the other partner. One time I even had to ask a man: 
"Is Jeff your roommate or your spouse?" 

For example, suppose she wanted to include a token gay for reasons of 
preachiness (I don't think that is what she wants to do). She could 
choose that Bill Weasley (who has already been introduced as a 
nice guy) will be the token gay.

Someone already rumored that some future volume will have adventures 
set in Egypt, which has already been foreshadowed by Bill's job. It 
is not too much to hope that Bill would does something heroic in 
adventure. If he survives being heroic, his mother could go back to 
nagging him to marry a nice witch and give her grandchildren (didn't 
she do that in GoF, or was it just in fanfic?) and he could tell her 
that he has already found the person with whom he wants to spend the 
rest of his life and it isn't a witch, it's a wizard.

Or if he unfortunately died of being heroic, there could be an 
embarrassing scene when both the bereaved boyfriend and the bereaved 
mother start arranging the funeral.