LGBT Characters in SFF?

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Actually I was born ginger, it just lightened along the way. Then I saw grey hairs and decided cherry red was good.

Like Zoombie says, hair dye is easy - and using henna is at least as old as the Bronze Age

Oh wow, never thought red hair would be so flaming...

"rimshot"

Anyhow, let me rephrase that. Does anyone has any problem with left-handed protagonists or characters in general on SFF?

maxmordon said:

Anyhow, let me rephrase that. Does anyone has any problem with left-handed protagonists or characters in general on SFF?

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As long as you don't tiptoe around the subject in your story...

Aha! But you see, I am not left-handed!

Did you know the word 'sinister' comes from 'on the left hand' because in the middle ages they though if you wrote with your left hand you were possessed by the devil?

Therefire cack-handed(lefties, thought to be more clumsy) were sinister

Yes, also lefty means clumsy in several langauge and it is considered the "unclean" hand in South East Asia...

maxmordon said:

Yes, also lefty means clumsy in several langauge and it is considered the "unclean" hand in South East Asia...

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Indeed - you eat with your right and ...er..wipe with your left, so the left is by association mucky.

lefties are gauche.

Medievalist said:

lefties are gauche.

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That was quite direct, wasn't it?

maxmordon said:

That was quite direct, wasn't it?

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It's ok; there's a consistent pattern in older Indo-European languages where things of the left side /left-travel/moving left-handwise are magical

Or evil. THE LEFT HAND PATH, amirite? ('Course, they chose that on purpose.)

Medievalist said:

It's ok; there's a consistent pattern in older Indo-European languages where things of the left side /left-travel/moving left-handwise are magical

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I see, but actually was a poor attempt of mine to joke from a word related to right, as opposed to left/gauche (droit would be too obvious, I thought) never mind. It's alright.

Shadow_Ferret said:

Probably. I've yet to run into any LGBT themed stories in anything I've read. The link states the Heinlien's Stranger in a Strange Land a gay novel. I don't recall that part.

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The main character starts a religion based on free love of all kinds, including homosexual. I Will Fear No Evil, is very LGBT.

My now out of print, Spectrum Award Nominated novels, Moonsword and Empress of Clouds (also a finalist for the BOTY Award and the IPPY Award) have a reluctant transsexual main character, and lesbian romance in a fantasy setting. I am hoping to release an all new edition of Moonsword before years' end.

Or the LEFT Hand of Darkness? Surely Ursula Le Guin didn't choose "left" by accident. And don't forget the other meanings of "left" in plain ol' English . . . "left" behind, etc., whereas "right" means "correct" etc.

It's ok; there's a consistent pattern in older Indo-European languages where things of the left side /left-travel/moving left-handwise are magical

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Well, at least I'm "magical" lol . . . AND I read something that said lefties are (possibly) more intelligent, or at least have more active neurons or synaptic (almost said synopsis, ouch!) connections or something, due to having to be more ambidextrous.

The main character starts a religion based on free love of all kinds, including homosexual.

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I wish we could start a REAL religion based on his book. Who's with me!?