But there is explicitly homophobic WNG fic. By which I mean the characters themselves actually say things like "we're not gay, we're real men", etc.
These days it's just an erasure of queer people. Which...whatever. If people want to work out their issues like that, okay. Like I said, I wish it were labelled so that I don't pick up something that purports to be about queer people, but is actually about straight people.
I honestly don't feel like there is any difficulty in writing fanfic characters as queer. If there is, it's in authors' lack of imagination. Like you said, there is bi/pan/omnisexuality. There is being in denial or being closeted.
But I really don't think that even with fanfic, it's so much a desire to reconcile stories with a heteronormative canon, but more the use of romance tropes that lead to sexuality being something that is tied to the person they're in love with rather than something separate. If A fell for B because he's attracted to guys and B is an attractive guy, that's way less ~*~romantic~*~ than A falling for B despite the fact that he's never looked at another guy like that before.
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Date: 7 Mar 2010 10:07 pm (UTC)These days it's just an erasure of queer people. Which...whatever. If people want to work out their issues like that, okay. Like I said, I wish it were labelled so that I don't pick up something that purports to be about queer people, but is actually about straight people.
I honestly don't feel like there is any difficulty in writing fanfic characters as queer. If there is, it's in authors' lack of imagination. Like you said, there is bi/pan/omnisexuality. There is being in denial or being closeted.
But I really don't think that even with fanfic, it's so much a desire to reconcile stories with a heteronormative canon, but more the use of romance tropes that lead to sexuality being something that is tied to the person they're in love with rather than something separate. If A fell for B because he's attracted to guys and B is an attractive guy, that's way less ~*~romantic~*~ than A falling for B despite the fact that he's never looked at another guy like that before.