Timeline for How to write a homosexual character, whose homosexuality isn't the point of the story?
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| Dec 7, 2015 at 0:34 | comment | added | Stu W | I like the love v. sex dichotomy. It's gender-neutral. Are the characters taking clothes off hedonisticly? Are there feelings of guilt before, during, or after? Is there an issue of tenderness? Family and marriage? In an urban fantasy, does the relationship contribute to survival? Are there issues of jealousy because one character tends towards pansexual or extra-relationship affairs? Does religion come in to play? | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 23:25 | comment | added | Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum | @KitZ.Fox That's quite a useful distinction. I will totally adopt that. Thank you! :) | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 21:14 | comment | added | Kit Z. Fox | I differentiate in the sense that pansexual defers to the idea that gender identity is a spectrum whereas bisexual implies that gender identity is binary. | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 20:25 | comment | added | Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum | @KitZ.Fox Out of curiosity, do you differentiate between pansexual and bisexual? Pansexual is kind of a new term and not as clearly self-defining as bisexual. | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 17:17 | comment | added | Ville Niemi | I agree. If it isn't important for the story, it isn't necessary for the writer to explain. Just show the characters interacting the way they normally do. No commentary or explanation is needed. | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 13:53 | comment | added | Kit Z. Fox | I do this all the time in my stories. Sometimes my characters are straight, sometimes they are gay, sometimes they are pansexual. It's never the point of the story, it just happens to be whoever they are into. | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 1:44 | history | answered | Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |