On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:13:44 EDT, you wrote: >In a message dated 8/29/03, Timothy Nelson writes: > >On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, David Silberstein wrote: >>> >>> >>>Still on the same hand, I think it's about time for a little more info >>>about homosexuality in the Dragaeran universe to come out - as >>>far as I recall, it's just Kiera being weirded out (to her surprise I >>>think) about Vlad's suggestion that Savn is his catamite. We must >>>have met a hundred Dragaerans by now and a few of them are likely >>>gay if the human conditions still hold - and how their society views >>>this fact (or, in case heterosexuality is the exclusive rule among >>>Dragaerans, how they feel about this difference from Easterners) >>>would be useful to know. >> >>Savn considers the possibility that Reins was Vlad's "lover", so the >>concept isn't entirely unknown in purely "elven" circles -- a "child" >>knows about the concept enough to consider it and/or joke about it. > >His sister Polyi, to nitpick (I just re-read _Athyra_ a couple days >ago). She doesn't seem to find the notion shocking, but that could >just be because Vlad is an Easterner, and the gods only know what >Easterners are capable of.... > >Rae But also notice that she was commenting about how they were "life partners", and made it fairly clear this was a peculiar concept unless one is an Easterner or jhereg. -- lazarus "Folly it may seem," said Haldir. "Indeed, in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him." -- J.R.R. Tolkien