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.