Blue Orange
Gone to Texas
I don't know about right, but:Good point. It would take a very careful hand to create a world where nobody is going to condemn you for whatever your sexuality or gender happens to be or how much or how little you're willing to experiment and manages to get around noble lineages and need to produce heirs and the like that medieval fantasy generally requires. It can be done, but it would be hard to do right and probably impossible to have done right back in the 80s.
One thing's who you're attracted to.
The other thing's who you make kids with (important in terms of passing on the kingdom). We see these as intimately connected, but earlier generations not so much.
"Yeah, the king's mostly into men, so it took the queen forever to convince him to get around to giving her some heirs so the crown doesn't go to that no-good niece of hers." Nobody ever says they married for love--marrying heirs of two noble houses was one way to end wars. Of course, with fantasy there's no reason someone couldn't create a spell to generate an heir from two women or two men. (Nobody even says chromosomes have to be real.)
And then you get into bygone prejudices, like the ancient Greeks and Romans where being gay was OK as long as you were the top.
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