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[briarwood]

A fascinating discussion of bisexuality (or the lack of it) in slash fiction.

Personally, I've always written Jim and Blair as bi. Sam Winchester, too. I'm not sure about the other SPN boys. I wonder, though, if that comes across. I mean, I don't as a rule have characters declare their sexuality. Maybe y'all don't notice they're not technically gay?

A weird thought for me to start the day on.

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[morgan32.livejournal.com]

My default position for TS is a cheerfully bisexual Blair and an openly gay or closetedly gay Jim.

I'm with you on Blair. I tend to think of Jim as bi, too, though, because if he's gay, where does Carolyn fit in? Not to mention all the other canon BOTWs. Jim is unusually self-aware for a man, which supports the notion that he's questioned his sexuality but it also gives me a problem with the idea that Carolyn was a last-ditch try to be straight or something. Okay, they didn't have a great marriage, but even so...

there's sometimes comment indicating some members of the gay community to be fairly ambivalent about bisexuality, as well

Yes, that's very true. If you're bi in the gay community, a lot of people assume you don't really belong there. Bloody unfair. And there are a lot of silly and hurtful prejudices about bisexual people. Like the presumption of promiscuity.

Bet you're sorry you posted that link and comment now. :-)

Nope. Not sorry at all :-)