It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that gay writers will ever suit their readers, especially since that readership is splintered into ghettos within ghettos.
I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.
I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even people who aren't hateful per se assume they won't get anything from a queer book.
The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.
I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.
Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
Homosexuals are riding high in the media.