Pride Month Profile: Chey

[aliasjack]

For our second Pride Month Profile, we're taking a look at one Ms. Cheyenne Livingston.

Comments

[moogle1]

Seems a little forced to include a romantic arc for a character just so your readers know that she's gay. (Or maybe I'm misunderstanding you)

[aliasjack]

Not so readers know she's gay so much as to be more inclusive with how the romantic arcs are treated.

[wynand]

I think in a lot of ways the solution to problems in art is to amplify them. If she seems like a strong metaphor for a silenced minority, maybe amp that up. Alternatively you can just avoid talking about the problems at all -- in my book, I'm writing almost exclusively about a lesbian relationship among teens, but there's no coming out scene or like familial strife really associated with this, because I didn't want to make the characters seem like stereotypes ("oh, they're gay; there'll have to be a coming out crisis"), and at the time I had no idea how to even approach the topic of coming out

[aliasjack]

sorry it's taken me so long to reply to this