by Cookie 'n' Screen
I never thought about it. I say before whipping into a self-indulgent rant about why, the book I am writing, has a centre homosexual relationship. Truth is, I never thought about it. Like most writers (I hope) my pivotal character came to me in a train station and started to whisper her story in my ear. And straight from the beginning, I was always aware that she would fall in love with a woman. That was it, a strong person shimmied over (when you read the book, you’ll get that) and twisted my head to an invisible woman, shuffling across the glossy floors and went “she is the one.”
So yes, I am writing a novel with a pivotal homosexual relationship.
I never thought about it. I say before whipping into a self-indulgent rant about why, the book I am writing, has a centre homosexual relationship. Truth is, I never thought about it. Like most writers (I hope) my pivotal character came to me in a train station and started to whisper her story in my ear. And straight from the beginning, I was always aware that she would fall in love with a woman. That was it, a strong person shimmied over (when you read the book, you’ll get that) and twisted my head to an invisible woman, shuffling across the glossy floors and went “she is the one.”
So yes, I am writing a novel with a pivotal homosexual relationship.
I did mention I didn't want to get too self-indulgent because let’s face it, immersing yourself into a story and having it rattle around your brain can mean you think it is the dogs bollocks. We wouldn't be writers, artists or what not if it weren't for the combination of self-deprecation and vanity. So I am going to steer clear of being too preaching.
The fact of the matter is that, as LGBT month hangs over us and Sochi Winter Olympics stings due to Russian’s anti-homosexuality laws, the fact I am writing a homosexual relationship shouldn't matter. Repeat, I said shouldn't. No, in a perfect naive world people are people, only judge on their awful personalities or great ones. In a perfect world, we’d walk around, holding hands with people (of age) and no one would drag their eyes up and down, judging in that manner we all do. There would be no whispering, comments or backstabbing. More importantly people wouldn't be brutalized, killed, tortured and ridiculed for loving someone of the same sex. That is a perfect world and in it, we all should aspire to live.
Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world. It’s sad, but true. I, if I were to walk out on the streets, hands clasped to the woman of my dreams, then I’d get more issues than if that hand belonged to a man. I have known people to have been beaten, abused and there are people worldwide being killed because they choose to love. This is fundamentally wrong. And in fiction, we should use that power to shine a big spotlight and go “erm you are wrong, stop whatever the fuck you are doing.” That is key. We need to see film, books and whatever medium as art as such. While homosexual characters shouldn't be forced as “token,” (the result, if you over think it, is just as bad.) If a character comes to you saying “I love such and such,” that’s how you should write them. But you’re fiction shouldn't be used to perpetuate hate against something unchangeable, undeniable and unstoppable. Love is love, and should be written as such.
The reason I didn't think about writing a homosexual relationship is because I don’t think about it in my day to day life. I fall in love with whomever my hormones, soul and heart take a fancy too and I go with it. I am not going to scan over someone who makes my heart flutter and go “nope, female, I can’t do it.” As a self-proclaimed bisexual I use that term as a way of saying “because I am open to falling in love with whomever.”
But LGBT issues in literature are still vital. Because it needs coverage, it needs people translating these stories into the mainstream. It doesn't need stereotyping, it needs humanizing. It needs people to see it as we see heterosexuality. We need it because that is how it is.
The fact of the matter is that, as LGBT month hangs over us and Sochi Winter Olympics stings due to Russian’s anti-homosexuality laws, the fact I am writing a homosexual relationship shouldn't matter. Repeat, I said shouldn't. No, in a perfect naive world people are people, only judge on their awful personalities or great ones. In a perfect world, we’d walk around, holding hands with people (of age) and no one would drag their eyes up and down, judging in that manner we all do. There would be no whispering, comments or backstabbing. More importantly people wouldn't be brutalized, killed, tortured and ridiculed for loving someone of the same sex. That is a perfect world and in it, we all should aspire to live.
Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world. It’s sad, but true. I, if I were to walk out on the streets, hands clasped to the woman of my dreams, then I’d get more issues than if that hand belonged to a man. I have known people to have been beaten, abused and there are people worldwide being killed because they choose to love. This is fundamentally wrong. And in fiction, we should use that power to shine a big spotlight and go “erm you are wrong, stop whatever the fuck you are doing.” That is key. We need to see film, books and whatever medium as art as such. While homosexual characters shouldn't be forced as “token,” (the result, if you over think it, is just as bad.) If a character comes to you saying “I love such and such,” that’s how you should write them. But you’re fiction shouldn't be used to perpetuate hate against something unchangeable, undeniable and unstoppable. Love is love, and should be written as such.
The reason I didn't think about writing a homosexual relationship is because I don’t think about it in my day to day life. I fall in love with whomever my hormones, soul and heart take a fancy too and I go with it. I am not going to scan over someone who makes my heart flutter and go “nope, female, I can’t do it.” As a self-proclaimed bisexual I use that term as a way of saying “because I am open to falling in love with whomever.”
But LGBT issues in literature are still vital. Because it needs coverage, it needs people translating these stories into the mainstream. It doesn't need stereotyping, it needs humanizing. It needs people to see it as we see heterosexuality. We need it because that is how it is.
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