Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20190324211646/@comment-25117610-20190328001501

Also, regarding "DWU goes to such unusual lengths to prove that sexuality is fluid and has no definition" (emphasis mine) is just... not true, given we have lenghty articles on gay, lesbian, gender, homosexuality et al.

And then, for the concern of "potential misapplication", we do what we already do for every information: require sources. Both for characters and RW people. We don't need to simply claim Lucius (The Eaters of Light) is bisexual. He outright says he likes men and women. Similarly for Bill. In the same scene, she clarifies that she only likes women, and not men "that way". "Not ever. Only women".

For real world people, surely there's bound to be an interview where the (actor/writer/director/etc)'s sexuality is mentioned. If there is, we add the reference and the category. If there isn't, we don't, and keep searching.

And we don't speculate. If we see a character X who's male, and dates another male character, we don't categorise him as gay, unless he (or someone else in-narrative) establishes him as such. After all, he very well could be bisexual, pansexual or something else entirely.

I really don't see this addition as much different from what we do already for everything else.