Re:

[Erin <erin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 13:51:21 -0500 , you wrote:

>From: CAClarke2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>I was also thinking that I would love to see you do a story were only one of
>our heroes, Willow or Buffy comes out. And least for a long time. I can see
>this happing in high school. I see Will first like in your story. I think
>Buffy would take it hard at first but Xander would take it harder. I would
>like to see you do it because you do sweet so well. Your charters have
>depth.
>Anyway I can see the high school rumor mill finding out. Cordy not meaning
>to spread it around but does. Buffy who worried a lot about image in high
>school having to do the whole guilt by association. I think she would do
>major charter growing.

I agree, I think that it would be interesting to see what the effects
were. I know the whole "coming out in HS" thing has been done in
other stories, but always as a kind of afterthought, or sideline. It
would be interesting to see what happened if it was brought center
stage.

>Plus sometime the straight/ gay friendship thing can have more angles then
>you might think. Throw in Bi. 

I'd be interested in what people think here about the whole
lesbian/bisexual angle. In specific, I have a couple questions I'd
like to see people's reactions to.

If you accept canon, Willow and Buffy would be *at most* bisexual.
You can depart from canon and say that Xander, Oz, Angel, etc. didn't
really mean anything, which is fine, but if you were interested in a
mostly-canonical story, they would probably be bi. This having been
said:

-Would you call a Buffy/Willow relationship a "lesbian relationship",
considering neither are lesbian?

-Would you consider either Buffy or Willow to be "gay"? Is this a term
you consider to be associated with lesbians, bisexuals, or both?

-How likely would B/W be to use labels like bisexual, gay, lesbian,
etc.? It has been my experience that labels can be very important to
people who are trying to come to grips with alternative sexuality, and
also people who are very outspoken and proud of it.

I'm just curious to see what other people here think about this.

Erin
-- 
"Then again, what is college for if not experimenting?" 
-- Willow, BtVS
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