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The Other Dubya (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} misswindy) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2007-04-02 16:18:00 |
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| Entry tags: | fandom: heroes, gay |
Sylar does NOT want to eat your brain, dude.
Oh, I just know some of y'all are going to feel me on the meta-irony of this one. :)
Over on LJ, regisjr has decided to make a new community just for gay and lesbian fans of the NBC scifi show, Heroes.
Apparently, there has been a lot of drama over this!!! Because regisjr has posted the following missive in no less than five different places, alleging that "everyone thinks it's a weird idea":
I don't get it. There are six or seven Heroes communities alone and several for slash fiction. I open one for gay fans and everyone thinks it's a weird idea. I think it's kinda original myself. COME ON! No other fandom, so far has a community for it's gay fans. Look at UGLY BETTY which has a lot there. Heroes, which doesn't seem too gay since the ZACH IS HE OR ISN'T HE fight, has a lot of fans of the "alternative lifestyle".
I want gays to feel safe in this fandom. COME ON THERE ARE SOME HOT GUYS FOR THE GAY MEN TO GA GA OVER AND SAME FOR GOES FOR THE LADY HEROES AND LESBIAN FANS! People need to be open minded that gays and lesbian like other things and HEROES is one of them. GET OVER IT AND LET US SHOW OUR SUPPORT FOR THE SHOW!
PETER PETRELLI RULES!
With a rant like that, you would think there was an avalanche of opposition to the idea in the fandom, right? Right. Problem is, there's not. In fact, all visible reactions - what meager few there have been - range from the harmlessly snarky to the supportive, with only a few people questioning why
regisjr felt unsafe in such a slash-heavy fandom, including other gay and lesbian fans of the show. This person is emblematic of the general reaction, which is a polite "I just don't see the point, but go for it!" Basically, if there is an avalanche of opposition, it's either all been through e-mail, or really, really difficult to find, or all in
regisjr's head. However, he continues to post about how terribly brave he's being in the face of all this oppression. I think it's safe to say that msscribe had the persecution routine down much better than this. He didn't even bother to make up any sock puppets. C- for effort.
[Edited to add: Several of the comm posts have since been deleted by the mods due to lack of
