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Q&A Is killing off one of my queer characters homophobic?

My answer is relatively direct in this matter. To my mind, true equality occurs, when a person recognizes another person is homosexual, yet this information is not interesting enough to cause any ...

posted 5y ago by Mär‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T12:26:28Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Mär‭ · 2019-12-08T12:26:28Z (almost 5 years ago)
My answer is relatively direct in this matter.

To my mind, true equality occurs, when a person recognizes another person is homosexual, yet this information is not interesting enough to cause any kind of reaction, _i.e._ it is so normal that one may say, "whatever".

Equality is not, "Oh, Greg, Mira told me you're homosexal, that's co cool!". Equality is, "Hey there, Greg."

With respect to your storyline, I assume you need to kill off a character, because this is the path you envisioned for that specific character / trope. It is more homophobic _not_ to kill off this character, due to their homosexuality, because this is what you originally intended for the character, but then altered due to that character's sexuality.

Behaving differently and treating someone differently is what constitutes homophobia in my opinion. People need to become such a common occurrence in your world, that interactng with them no longer constitutes a special event for you. This is when you truly start treating them like everyone else. This is when you treat people of some sort XY just like _people_.

TL;DR:

Not only are you fine killing off that charcter, but you even _should_ do that, if this is what you intended before you started considering implications of political incorrectness.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-07-15T12:28:36Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 6