I even mention in the interview that most if not all of my friends (i.e., you guys, fandom in general) are pretty much down with it as well. I don't know for sure that I know anybody who really has a problem with anybody's sexuality, although I can sadly think of a few I don't know, such as O. S. Card.
Card? Well, I knew he was Mormon, but after listening to his "Secular Humanist Revival" I thought he had other relatively liberal positions about life. Just goes to show you...
Anyway, just want to say that you handled the interview very well. You didn't do a big political speech; you stated your views matter-of-factly and left it there. I wish more people in interviews would do just that.
Still, I hope that this newfound GBLT fame can get you booked on Ellen Degeneris's show...say for Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Thanks for the kind words -- to all of you -- about the interview. He asked some questions, I answered. Seemed to be the way to go. (And I would love to do Ellen's or Rosie's show for TLAPD.)
Re: Card -- I went to one of those SHRs, a long time ago. He's gone way the hell off the track since then. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card) has more, and links to various essays, but the short form is: he calls himself a Democrat, but by and large supports Republican issues, is on a moral high horse regarding sexuality, and in 2004 "praised Zell Miller for trying to save the Democratic party". (Here's another interesting take (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/28/22428/7034) with a few useful links.) My own personal experience with his homophobia was a handout on the freebie table at ChiCon 1991, with an anti-gay column of his reprinted. Can't remember if it was printed by him or his supporters as a call to arms or by his detractors as a warning.
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This is not necessarily a first for sci-fi fandom. Ask Forrest J Ackerman sometime how he got to be an Honorary Lesbian, decades ago.
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Anyway, just want to say that you handled the interview very well. You didn't do a big political speech; you stated your views matter-of-factly and left it there. I wish more people in interviews would do just that.
Still, I hope that this newfound GBLT fame can get you booked on Ellen Degeneris's show...say for Talk Like a Pirate Day.
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Re: Card -- I went to one of those SHRs, a long time ago. He's gone way the hell off the track since then. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card) has more, and links to various essays, but the short form is: he calls himself a Democrat, but by and large supports Republican issues, is on a moral high horse regarding sexuality, and in 2004 "praised Zell Miller for trying to save the Democratic party". (Here's another interesting take (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/28/22428/7034) with a few useful links.) My own personal experience with his homophobia was a handout on the freebie table at ChiCon 1991, with an anti-gay column of his reprinted. Can't remember if it was printed by him or his supporters as a call to arms or by his detractors as a warning.