Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer.
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Gov. Gav Newsom is takg on nservative Temecula Valley Unified school officials over textbooks that discs sla gay activist Harvey Milk. * the gay fanfiction dilemma *
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In anime and manga, outsi the oft-fetishized yuri and boy love manga, there are extremely few exampl of gay or lbian characters. In Marvel and DC ics, artists and wrers often fd their hands tied when to how they portray gay or lbian characters, if they are given the eedom to do so at all wrg favore characters as gay, trans, bisexual, queer, or of a different race, dividuals who nsume media but fail to see themselv reprented wh are able to create the scenars that they most relate to. Rowlg’s post-seri announcement that beloved wizard Dumbledore was gay fixed non the kd of possibily which fanfictn had long been dwellg.
There remas a stigma and prejudice that eher nstras the characters to normative packag (“the gay bt iend”) or lims their inty to a one-dimensnal label (“bury your gays”). YIU DONT KNOW bc english is a bullsh language also known as, the gay fanfictn dilemmaWe have the same problem portugueThat’s very ol.
Even more tertgly though, this puts onto lookg at how other languag solve the gay fanfictn problem. So French is dog okay at M-rated gay fic but Swedish is still wng at Gen fic.