http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2007/02/obrian_12spoilers.php Comments on O'Brian, Patrick: (12) The Letter of Marque (spoilers) en Copyright 2008 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:07:46 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.36 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Shewood wrote on February 4, 2007 at 10:18 PM: <p>Definitely not Evil Gays--elsewhere there are gay characters whose morals and personalities vary as much as the straights. Stephen is quite clearly sympathetic, and Jack shrugs the subject off.</p> http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2007/02/obrian_12spoilers.php#c65507 Kate wrote on February 4, 2007 at 10:21 PM: <p>No, I didn't think so, but if they had been the only prominent gay characters to date, it would have made me wonder.</p> <p>I should check _The Butcher's Bill_ to see if we meet that master from the first book again.</p> http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2007/02/obrian_12spoilers.php#c65509 Shewood wrote on February 4, 2007 at 11:44 PM: <p>No, but there are a couple other gay officers--the first lieutenant on Yorke's ship, who comments about Parlow's beauty, and the admiral or captain who keeps Richardson (oblivious as he is) as a lieutenant--this is after Richardson stops being Spotted Dick and becomes handsome. There are a few others, too.</p> <p>The thing about Ledward and Wray, if I recall rightly is not that they are gay, it's implied that they and their particular group like a molly shop in which it's implied that the participants may not be willing.</p> http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2007/02/obrian_12spoilers.php#c65517