How Can I Possibly Relate to Gay Love Stories?

The same way I relate to straight ones.

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I have seen a lot of stuff from straight, generally conservative commentators about the increase in LGBTQIA+ characters in media, and as such an increase in relationships between queer characters. They make a bunch of arguments about how this is bad, generally based around the immorality of being queer in any form, or…