The main character in Richard Morgan’s Steel Remains is gay, and a badass swordsman.
You mean, a bad ass-swordsman?
Oh fie, Sir, fie!
Back to David Gerold, his protagonist in the series about the war against the chitor (sp) is at least bi.
The title character in Lois McMaster Bujold’s novel Ethan of Athos. In fact, he comes from a planet where everyone is gay–it’s an all male world.
And he’s an obstetrician! (It makes sense in the book.)
Speaking of Bujold, there’s also Aral Vorkosigan, whose bisexual.
It’s not estrus, it’s kemmer. Estrus is strictly a female occurrence, just as rut is a male occurrence. Kemmer is when a person changes from a neuter being into a sexualized being. It’s been a while since I read the book, but I was under the impression that the people of Winter didn’t really have partners…when they knew they were starting kemmer, they went to kemmer houses, to have orgies with the other folks in those houses, and maybe they had sex with the same people in later kemmerings, and maybe they had sex with new people, but I thought that they didn’t pair bond. I might be wrong.
Felix Gaeta from Battlestar Galactica was bisexual; at least in the webisodes. His boyfriend, Lt Hoshi, appeared to be gay, or at least was never shown to be in to women. I think the Cylons were bisexual by default, though the Number 5s really pinged my gaydar. The Ones not so much. Of course labels like gay, straight, & bi are completely meaningless in Colonial/Cylon society.
Though the latter 2 Torchwood miniseries really play up the “like’s men” angle to the point where it seems like he’s exclusively gay.
Russell Edgington, Steve Newlin, and Talbot would qualify too.
I always wondered if his nephews were exempt from his proclivities. I’m guessing no.
Stewart Gilligan Griffin
Oooh! Just thought of another series! The main character in Ellen Kushner’s *Swordspoint * is in a same-sex relationship (both men are bisexual), and the two of them are supporting characters in the followup, The Privilege of the Sword.
I think that Baron Harkonnen left his nephews alone sexually, because he was trying to mold them into tools and heirs, and screwing them might interfere with their usefulness as various tools to him. I don’t think he would have left them alone out of consideration of their feelings, or because they were family. Harkonnen was pure monster, or at least all we see of him is pure monster.
Jinxie just got to share a kiss and presumably more with his ex last ep.
At least you remembered the word ‘kemmer.’
I remembered that when one of them got pregnant the couple did stay together. Or at least Estraven. I could be wrong too.
Anyway, it’d be hard to call any of that gay, the more I think about it. But I’ll let the OP decide if it’s of interest.
Samuel R. Delany has for decades been the most prominent gay science fiction writer. His books are full of characters of every shade of sexuality. He also writes transgressive gay porn, memoirs of his real-life gay adventurousness and mainstream novels with gay characters.
Is that a requirement? :dubious:
Character is X, therefore Character must be shown clearly engaging in X related behaviors?
I think there were little hints throughout the books when you looked for them–the biggest two being in Rita Skeeter’s tell-all biography: his relationship as teenagers with Grindelwald, and the fact that after that fell apart he never married or was even described as having a girlfriend. Though I admit I didn’t see it until Rowling stated it, it was clear to me after the fact that Dumbledore had been seriously hurt by what happened between him and Grindlewald, and basically became celibate and avoided relationships for the rest of his life. But he was still gay.
Ivanova and Talia in Babylon 5 (Ivanova confessed that she thought she was in love with Talia).
Robert Sawyer’s Neanderthal Parallax (Hominids, Humans, Hybrids). In the book the Neanderthals live with a same-sex partner three weeks a month (IIRC).
Buffy (tVS) is SF? Maybe, I don’t understand the term.
If it is though, then besides Willow, Tara deserves a mention. Also, ugh, Kennedy.
In Firefly, Inara entertained a female client, which led to an often-quoted line from Jayne.
Well, that depends on whether you think he was actually in control of his own actions during that particular episode. I was under the impression he had been brainwashed rather thoroughly, if I recall the book correctly.
Also, if he was under his own control, he’d be a pedophile.
It wasn’t in the books, but movie-Sam and movie-Frodo sure gave off a gay lovers vibe.
(if you’ll allow that SF could include fantasy, i.e., “speculative fiction”)
There was also a scene with them in Ivanova’s quarters, followed by one of Ivanova waking up and reaching over to pat an empty pillow, with the implication that Talia was sleeping there.