Homosexuality often does come completely out of blue because unlike straight people, gays tend to hide it, both in real life and fiction. The reason I say the author did it right if it "comes out of the blue" is because most of the time? The character's sexuality has no bearing on the plot whatsoever, so there was no reason to highlight it.
I think there are two different points to this.
First, yes, gay people often hide their sexuality - but that is HUGE character trait. Sexuality is a large part of who someone is - if a character was hiding something of that magnitidue, as a reader/viewer I would want to see hints of that, because it's a large part of who they are.
Secondly, most of the time, sexuality - ANY sexuality - does not have any baring on the plot. But we see a lot of it because sexuality is both a signicant part of our pysche and because (most of us) are interested in it.
I'm not saying there should be anvils dropped that 'oh, character X is gay' but I'd either like to see their sexuality getting the same respect and attention that straight people's sexuality gets on tv.
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I think there are two different points to this.
First, yes, gay people often hide their sexuality - but that is HUGE character trait. Sexuality is a large part of who someone is - if a character was hiding something of that magnitidue, as a reader/viewer I would want to see hints of that, because it's a large part of who they are.
Secondly, most of the time, sexuality - ANY sexuality - does not have any baring on the plot. But we see a lot of it because sexuality is both a signicant part of our pysche and because (most of us) are interested in it.
I'm not saying there should be anvils dropped that 'oh, character X is gay' but I'd either like to see their sexuality getting the same respect and attention that straight people's sexuality gets on tv.