things that are gay

[sab]

I'm just being a clearinghouse, for a moment, mostly so I only have one LJ link to Memory. Anyway, here's some stuff from the world:

[open-minded Jews in Portland who aren't gay]
[What, no hellfire? I was promised hellfire!]
[Gay mittens]
[B5 ficathon, um, super-gay]
[device of the future! maybe fantastic! In a sort of post-apocalyptic Big Brotheresque way. Or, maybe gay.]

That being said, I have another question. To the righties on my Trusted list, or, rather, the Righties whose opinions I trust:

Do you -- or any conservative-types in fandom you know -- have you, hm. The question is, do you know anyone who's comfortable with slash, writing it/reading it, while not comfortable with homosexuality as a practice in her real life? Someone who could write about Duncan and Methos getting it on, but who'd be squicked if she learned she had a gay friend?

Additionally -- how does this hold over for gay marriage? pene enlightened me on the subject once when, in her more Christian days (G, *g*), she commented that she "believed in" homosexuals ('cause, duh, there they are), but she didn't support pre-marital sex, THEREFORE, the option left to her was to support gay marriage.

Of course, this was before the big gay agenda, perpetuated by the liberal media elite, swept G off her feet with the use of porn and evil temptresses and, um, whiskey, probably, and made G supergay in that insidious way we have of taking otherwise innocent people and gayifying them while they're not looking. Poor unsuspecting pene. *g*

Anyway. I'm wondering how that holds over for conservatives not of the religious bent, wondering -- first, if there IS a set of slash writers who are uncomfortable with homosexuality in the "real world" but not in fiction, then -- why that is, exactly. And just, in general, wondering what people think. Responses from all sides welcomed, please and thank you.

Comments

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

There was a really long angry entry posted somewhere on LJ ranting about a slash writer having announced that she opposed same-sex marriage. Unfortunately, however, I cannot remember the URL to it or who wrote it. But it got lots of people linking to it, so somebody around here will probably know what I'm talking baout.

[gem225.livejournal.com]

I remember one that might qualify, although in my opinion it wasn't angry. It was a calm and rational entry by wayfairer, but the entry isn't public any more.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that you mean the same entry that I mean. Although I can't imagine describing the entry I'm referring to as "calm," my description of it as "angry" was also not in the least intended to imply that it wasn't a perfectly rational anger. Anyway, I'm pretty sure wayfairer is the person who wrote the entry I'm thinking of.

BratQueen..?

[inapickle.livejournal.com]

There was something just recently by The Brat Queen that was certainly an angry rant about people who enjoy watching or reading about gays but who think we're second-class citizens.