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[andpuff]

I read AfterElton pretty much every day. Yes, I know, AfterElton is aimed at gay and bisexual men and perhaps it would therefore make more sense for me to read AfterEllen, the equivalent site for women, and I do drop in there occasionally. My pop cultural preferences aside...

This morning there was an interview posted with JJ Abrams revisiting

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[theniwokesoftly]

Love the idea of cupcake security guy talking about his husband. So cute. (Of course, I ship Jim/Bones so hard, but I'm not expecting that to become canon anytime soon.)

[wingeddreamer9]

Kirk/Spock all the way!

...Ahem. Anyway. Yes, it would be wonderful if Abrams could sneak in something even as little as the dialogue you used as an example. Star Trek is such a HUGE universe that it doesn't make sense for everyone to be straighter than flagpoles, because statistics just don't allow for that sort of thing. And given just how many people are on the Enterprise, there's got to be at least a handful of bisexual/homosexual people among the crew.

[theniwokesoftly]

Considering that the Enterprise has 428 crew members (why yes I am a nerd, why do you ask?), I'm guessing it's going to be more than five. Statistics tell us roughly 10%.

[dogmatix_san]

So, life, the universe, and everything 42? :D

[theniwokesoftly]

YES.

[kittydesade]

It may just be me, but I feel like single-line-reference type subtlety has gone way down in television and film lately.

... I feel like I mentioned this before and someone said it wasn't just me. And now I'm going to spiral down into deja vu and trying to remember things.

[maverick_weirdo]

Wait, your suggesting have a character come out just before they kill him? That's just what they need a movie where the gay guy died.

(What do you think happens to security during a red alert?)

[hexeengel]

McCoy is bi wut. Did I miss some hot slashy action? Is this head!canon? Plz explain kthx!

[andpuff]

McCoy spoke about his wife. Thus, we can assume he has sex with women. He didn't ever say he doesn't sleep with men. Most people would assume that means straight but the actual evidence means only that he sleeps with women not that he sleeps only with women.

In my example, Cupcake, defines as bi by the same parameters. (We can assume he sleep with his husband but we don't explicitly know he doesn't sleep with women. That's why I needed a slightly longer scene.)

[muuranker]

Um, speaking about his wife means we can assume he has sex with a woman, not with women.

In my head, I am thinking total number of partners: five. That might be a little high. But with a small number, suggesting that more than one of the partners must be women seems a bit of a stretch.

I love your Cupcake dialogue. It applies right across the spectrum of diversities. Such detailing isn't (for the audience) a distraction or a slowing. It's the little dots and splotches of paint that, if you stand the intended distance, make the picture.