And they call me a homophobe

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I have a strong and increasing objection to using homosexual characters as designated victims in fiction. I am not likely to write many more gay characters than I have, but you can bet your lives that if I do, the said characters are going to live to ninety-five in perfectly good health, thank you.

Comments

[shezan.livejournal.com]

....wouldn't LJ be the place where you find an astonishing majority of happy, long-living gay characters (or, you know, gay characters going through the travails your protagonist is expected to encounter?)

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You'd think. I also find a lot of depictions of gay characters unlikely, but then, what do I know? I only cohabited with three or four gay couples over a period of fourteen years, after all, not to mention gaining considerable knowledge of lesbian and gay comix during nine years as a reviewer of underground and independent comics.