Riding the range on my hobby-horse

I read a lot, as those who follow my blog will know. Lately I've been reading cowboy stories. Now, I admit, cowboys don't completely flip my switches, unlike cops and bodyguards, but I've been seriously enjoying the works of J.R.Loveless, Zahra Owens and R.J.Scott. It's been frustrating too, though, to read about men who, to maintain the 'macho het' mask they feel socially obliged to wear, sleep with women as well as men but who never even contemplate whether this might mean they are bisexual rather than gay.

I suppose in the end I am going to have to write the book myself that tackles this subject properly. I am sick, though, to see that even good 'Gay Romantica' authors are just as blind to the possibility of bisexuality as many people who identify as gay in 'real' life seem to be.

I am on my hobby-horse, yes. I do resent bisexuality being seen as either a convenient smoke screen for 'what's really going on' or as a stepping stone to accepting 'the truth' that you are actually gay, in fiction as well as in 'real' life.

I will continue riding the range aboard my cute little pinto hobby-horse, because I am NOT confused, in denial, hiding from the 'truth' of my gay-ness, sitting on the fence or exploiting the supposed social 'acceptance' being bisexual gives!

Writers, please wake up and accept that if you find your character telling you they can love a woman as well as they love a man, or vice versa, they very probably are telling you they are bisexual rather than being a 'conflicted' gay.

Riding the range on my hobby-horse

I read a lot, as those who follow my blog will know. Lately I've been reading cowboy stories. Now, I admit, cowboys don't completely flip my switches, unlike cops and bodyguards, but I've been seriously enjoying the works of J.R.Loveless, Zahra Owens and R.J.Scott. It's been frustrating too, though, to read about men who, to maintain the 'macho het' mask they feel socially obliged to wear, sleep with women as well as men but who never even contemplate whether this might mean they are bisexual rather than gay.

I suppose in the end I am going to have to write the book myself that tackles this subject properly. I am sick, though, to see that even good 'Gay Romantica' authors are just as blind to the possibility of bisexuality as many people who identify as gay in 'real' life seem to be.

I am on my hobby-horse, yes. I do resent bisexuality being seen as either a convenient smoke screen for 'what's really going on' or as a stepping stone to accepting 'the truth' that you are actually gay, in fiction as well as in 'real' life.

I will continue riding the range aboard my cute little pinto hobby-horse, because I am NOT confused, in denial, hiding from the 'truth' of my gay-ness, sitting on the fence or exploiting the supposed social 'acceptance' being bisexual gives! (It is actually less socially acceptable and more socially awkward to be bisexual than to be gay, because you frequently find yourself rejected by both 'camps' rather than just the one)!

Writers, please wake up and accept that if you find your character telling you they can love a woman as well as they love a man, or vice versa, they very probably are telling you they are bisexual rather than being a 'conflicted' gay.