The Dragon Keeper "Controversial?" Hobb and sexuality. *Major Spoilers up to RWC!

[Lady Laura]

Ok, I agree that Martin includes a variety of sexual characters, and does more than just present 100% hetro characters in his books. BUT none of his main characters are gay/lesbian! He's ok with putting in subtle hints about 2 guys being in a relationship, but some readers actually missed those hints! Why couldn't he have been more direct with it?

It's been about a year since I read the last book (I think the next one i need to read is book 3 part 2 LOL I am waiting for my library to get it ) I did forget about Varys! Good points about him. I remember that incident with Dany, that was definately interesting. But that's the only POV we get of a non-hetro encounter. I hope I'm not over-analysing things here (I have a tendancy to do that!) but it feels to me like Martin is ok with writing about 2 women having a sexual encouter, but he steers clear of putting male/male scenes into any of his POV characters plotlines. I'm not saying he should put something in there for the sake of it! It just feels to me that he only puts in hints about homosexual themes (with a few exceptions, most of which are in relation to non-principal characters).

I say all this in the knowledge that I still have to read part 2 of book 3 (how confusing lol), and that things may very well change in the later books.