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On Hanschen Rilow and Potential Bisexual Erasure in the Spring Awakening Fandom
I've been following the slash drama being documented in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metafandom, and a little while back a piece of meta was posted entitled "Captain Jack Harkness is not gay". Now, I am a fan of Torchwood and Jack Harkness, but where the post really hit me was in realizing its applications to my main fandom right now -- Spring Awakening (in this case applying both to the musical and the Wedekind play).
I think the Spring Awakening fandom as a whole has a bit of a problem we need to look at more closely. And that is how we classify our characters' sexuality -- specifically that of, for the purpose of this post, Hanschen Rilow.
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metafandom, and a little while back a piece of meta was posted entitled "Captain Jack Harkness is not gay". Now, I am a fan of Torchwood and Jack Harkness, but where the post really hit me was in realizing its applications to my main fandom right now -- Spring Awakening (in this case applying both to the musical and the Wedekind play).I think the Spring Awakening fandom as a whole has a bit of a problem we need to look at more closely. And that is how we classify our characters' sexuality -- specifically that of, for the purpose of this post, Hanschen Rilow.
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