I have to admit that I used to consider the "Remus is So Totally Gay" thing to be an example of the worst kind of stereotyping (because quiet bookish men who aren't overtly macho must be gay), but I changed my mind about it after somebody on a non-HP-related message board pointed out that his speech about how his friends found out he was a werewolf is, in essence, a coming-out narrative. So I think people may be picking up on the similarities and over-literalizing them.
In any case, my own position has always been that he doesn't need to be gay because he's already a werewolf. JKR has already presented him as a member of an invisible-but-discriminated-against minority, and she's done it in a way that fits into her world and the story she's telling; there's no earthly reason for her to do the same thing twice over. It would be like making all the Muggle-born students at Hogwarts Jewish.
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Date: 2005-07-27 08:01 am (UTC)In any case, my own position has always been that he doesn't need to be gay because he's already a werewolf. JKR has already presented him as a member of an invisible-but-discriminated-against minority, and she's done it in a way that fits into her world and the story she's telling; there's no earthly reason for her to do the same thing twice over. It would be like making all the Muggle-born students at Hogwarts Jewish.