Talk:Slash vs. Gay

Two things I'm not sure about and reading the talk page for slash where this content originated didn't help.

The quote cited as from Legacy, vol 1, pg 142 has some misspelled words in it. Are those from the source or transcription errors on our part? Should we correct or add a few sic notations. And which usage of Legacy is meant there, that wikilink now goes to a redirect page.

Second, the paragraph that contains this: "In those fandoms writers often had to make a conscious choice to either ignore the sexual orientation question (need example) or to confront the issue head-on (ex. "Shadows Over the Land" a Professionals novel in which one of the main characters discovers he has AIDS). Most fan writers chose to fall somewhere in between, briefly bringing in sexual orientation as a backdrop before moving on to the main story of the growing romantic and sexual relationship. And many simply skipped past the issue altogether feeling that it detracted from the main story. " certainly seems to be saying that having HIV makes you gay while merely having m/m sex doesn't. Is there someone more familiar with slash tropes of the time that can rewrite this? I wonder if the person who wrote this meant sexual orientation in terms of societal issues, not personal identity. Anyway it made me raise my eyebrows. --facetofcathy 18:06, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I fixed the Legacy quote. At least I hope I didn't miss anything. :/ "Because" is spelled correctly in the zine. Was there anything else? --Doro 18:44, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

principles is missing a letter too.--facetofcathy 19:20, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Found the missing "i", it's there. :) --Doro 19:24, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

shonen

This seems wrong: there are "men's comics" (shonen, written and drawn by men) and "women's comics" (shojo, written and drawn by women) accordingly. See shonen and shojo.--æþel (talk) 19:58, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

advocating for slash pairings to become canon: new page

I think the section on "Citing LGBTQ Visibility as a Rationale for Canon Same-Sex Shipping" actually belongs on another page. This page is about whether or not slash fanfiction is gay fiction or contains gay characters. This section certainly shows how far fandom has come since those arguments, but for that very reason it deserves its own page. Do we have a page for this? It would be related to Fourth Wall (glossary term), Violating the Fourth Wall, and Homoerotic Subtext and TPTB. These are a type of Fan Campaign, so maybe we need Slash Fan Campaign? And crib material from the Teen Wolf pages.--aethel (talk) 19:39, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

I just found a better title for this phenomenon, Slashtivism. Except the earliest cite I found was from the Daily Dot, so I'm not sure if it's a fannish term.--aethel (talk) 01:37, 14 September 2015 (UTC)