Lupin as metaphor (was SHIP and RL experiences)

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Lynda first wrote:

>And Guz:  I think you may be right about Lupin being a metaphor for 
>an HIV infected person.  
 
And Susan replied: 

> But of course the metaphor of him as a person with AIDS would also 
> imply strongly that he is a gay man.

And now guz:

Susan, I hope I am not stepping out of bounds here, but I believe in 
Real Life, it is a dangerous assumption that it's mostly gay men who 
are infected with HIV. Surely you are not claiming that the millions 
of infected people in Africa right now are all gay men?

Anyway, if we keep the metaphor in canon, Remus *was* infected by 
someone of his own gender, Greyback. Greyback intentionally infected 
Remus when he was a child, as revenge on his father. And, with many 
people interpreting Greyback as a metaphor for a child molestor, I 
am in no way claiming that child molestors only molest their own 
gender, or that they are gay. I'm saying that I don't believe 
homosexuality has any relation to what we are presented in the canon 
story, nor the metaphor I was trying to explain.