I'm obviously hanging out with different people to you -- well, obviously, you and mroctober are on a different continent to me -- I don't think the sexuality of the characters is going to be as much of a problem over here, so much as the fact that there's brief 'on page' sex with both genders (some of it in a historical context as the story deals with events from sixteen years before and how they affect the time period of the novel).
I did think seriously about whether the story could work with a straight protagonist, and it wouldn't, because there's not a big enough reason for his self-styled nemesis to get involved if they hadn't been lovers in the past. Equally the death he investigates would have less impact if the woman hadn't been the protagonist's supposed true love so I'm not making him gay. Nor am I copping out by ending the story with the idea that he'd been one or the other all along and that all his lovers of one gender had been just him trying to deny it.
Sorry, I thought I'd given up bisexual activism sometime in the 90's. Obviously not.
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Date: 2006-06-24 06:24 am (UTC)I did think seriously about whether the story could work with a straight protagonist, and it wouldn't, because there's not a big enough reason for his self-styled nemesis to get involved if they hadn't been lovers in the past. Equally the death he investigates would have less impact if the woman hadn't been the protagonist's supposed true love so I'm not making him gay. Nor am I copping out by ending the story with the idea that he'd been one or the other all along and that all his lovers of one gender had been just him trying to deny it.
Sorry, I thought I'd given up bisexual activism sometime in the 90's. Obviously not.