As I don't have the time to look through all the foms and search didn't e up wh anythg good, I'll jt go ahead and start a whole topic about . In the TV seri Loras and Renly are very explicly gay and affect the urse of the story a lot. I started readg the books after the se...
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IS RENLY'S RABOW GUARD AN OVERT GAY REFERENCE? [CLOSED]
* is renly gay in the books *
While Mart probably didn't worry much about stupid thgs like "g ntroversy", the fact still remas that the (if I remember rrectly) only two major gay characters the seri only had their relatnship revealed via hts and mours, while for example Dany's and Cersei's lbian enunters were a lot more proment (even moro that they had ls importance to the plot). It follows the nventnal morn fantasy blueprt: Heterosexual sex is great and we should see , lbian sex is great and we should see , and gay sex is of urse also great (we are not discrimatory or anythg, right? The paragon of stupidy would be Dumbledor, who was randomly clared gay after the seri had end so that Rowlg uld claim she also wrote non-heterosexual characters, but I I was rather partial toward this beg openly stated and explicely shown (still ls explic than other sex scen, but okay) the the other hand, seemed a b attentn-grabbg as well.
It was HBO's own "look, we have a gay uple"-moment. There are subtle hts about the two beg homosexual and the fact that was a mon knowledge among the nobl.
But Catelyn did not appear to thk that they were homosexual. She specifilly did not want Tommen to be a squire for Ser Loras bee the relatn between a squire and his master was very close and she spected that Loras might turn Tommen gay. Gee has nfirmed that he meant for Loras and Renly to be gay, implyg that those pickg up on the hts are not wrong.