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I’ve had an interesting exchange over on a GLBT reading blog which I didn’t know about before, someone asked “what makes a gay movie a gay movie” and I said that for me the main characters have to be gay but it doesn’t have to be about their sexuality and so many films are. The poster disagreed and said that a story about a person coming to terms with their brother being gay – even if the gay character never appears on screen – would be a gay movie. No, that would be a straight movie exploring gay themes.

In my mind, anyway. Your mileage may certainly differ. But as a gay person that scenario described to me as a gay film would annoy me when I found it was all about straight reaction. I also found it interesting the way that historical films were not really counted as being relevant to today’s issues (because eek—they so are) and the way she said Dumbledore was a main character in Harry Potter. Er, no.

Very snowy today at Dad’s but it’s all gone from my area. Sadness. As usual much of the country has been covered – it was minus 18(!!!!) in parts of Wales overnight.

Been using the glasses without the occlusion for driving over the last couple of days now and it’s proved to me that it’s practice, I think, that’s going to push my eyes back into submission. Using the occlusion is like a crutch, and I don’t think the right eye is ever going to come right unless I make it. Still no good for PC work for which I need the glasses, but I’m managing to read without glasses at all. I absolutely refuse to be handicapped like this for ever.

I’ve started to do some reviews (non-historical) for TLA and got my first two books – the first one is an utter joy. I’ll let you know when the reviews go up.

That’s about it. Other than the above, I have been mainly assassinatin’.

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