Isn't it now supposed to be LGBTQ? I get a little insistent on that, since I have waltzed around the Q category.
In TRL, one of the biggest differences in that world is that there are no terms for sexualities. When a baby is born, they're assumed to be bi (though it isn't a word there) and nobody ever really thinks about it. Sexual attraction is not at all an issue with my characters. It's the emotions.
My MC, Hailey, associates emotion with vulnerability. She's often called 'tough' or 'strong', and since for a long time she was really confused about who she was, she just adapted to that, to what she thought people wanted her to be. Tough, to her, meant no vulnerability, so she caged up all her feelings for people to try and stay 'strong'.
Including the fact that, though it's not a sexual attraction, she's absolutely in love with her best friend and "sister" in the family she was adopted into at age 5. And the worst part is that said best friend is the only character in the books who is, from the very beginning until the very end, straight.
What I mean by that is she's basically the only person who's never questioned or experimented or even been curious.
Poor Hailey. And it only gets worse for her.