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[julesjones]

If you've ever wondered what science fiction writers talk about amongst themselves... Topic drift in a thread recently mentioned by james_nicoll resulted in the following conversation:

>>>>>> [*] Lots of guys around here shave their heads too - but that's more an
>>>>>> indication of thinning hair than sexual orientation.

>>>>> However, finding a male gay person in London with _some_ hair on their
>>>>> head is, let's say, a challenge.

>>>> At least one:
>>>> http://www.johnbarrowman.com/
>>>> (And the SFnal content is, of course, Torchwood/Doctor Who)

>>> He's flamingly BI, not gay, so does that count?

>>The character's flamingly bi, but the actor identifies gay as far as I
>>know. (Though I suspect that there are a lot of fangirls out there
>>willing to test the latter.)

>How on earth can you be "flamingly Bi"? It's such an ambivalent thing
>to be, if you're sexually attracted to both ends as it were then you'd
>behave the same way (as a sexual attraction) to both men and women,
>neither of whom would probably see the OTHER side of you at the time
>that you're flirting with THEM, which means that they pretty much see
>you as flamingly hetero (if you're flirting with the opposite sex) or
>flamingly gay (if you're flirting with your own gender). How on earth
>would anyone be supposed to tell (until and unless you tell THEM) that
>it works for you, whatever the other person is?

Rapidly followed by (so far) three replies with versions of

"You haven't seen the new Doctor Who yet, have you?"