Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.
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Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.
Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.
The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.
The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.
The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes.
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