It's canon.

[nenena]

This makes me happy.

Not so much the gay (no, I'm sorry, but he is very very very bisexual) part, actually. But it makes me happy to see Rictor finally getting a relatively non-dysfunctional relationship. Poor widdle angsty Rictor deserves some happiness after all the crap he's been through. And that drawn out romance and breakup with Rahne was like, the most painful thing ever. It was painful to read, even. Uggggh.

Edit: LOL, I wrote the above before I bothered to look at the comments on the Robot6 post. But sure enough, there's already someone in the comments complaining that labeling Rictor as "gay" is inaccurate when he's clearly bisexual. And you know, to an extent, I kind of agree with that comment. Bisexuals get marginalized a lot, especially bisexual men, especially in a culture that likes to divide men into neat STRAIGHT/GOOD and GAY/GIRLY/BAD categories, with very little opportunity for crossover or gray areas in between. It is kind of annoying to see one of the first genuinely bisexual male characters in comics immediately being mislabeled as "gay" just because he kissed Shatterstar. Because, you know, men! If you ever kiss another man, that means that you are TOTALLY GAY FOR LIFE, and all of your passionate romances with wimmins up until that point have been damn dirty lies! (*eyeroll*)

Comments

[poisonangel7.livejournal.com]

AH HA! I knew those two had a thing! Kneeeew it! So awesome! Gah...it makes me want to start really getting back into the X-world. Well, not just this. But...so expensive... Heh ^_^;;;; And I know I can't just stop at new books, I'd want everything I missed and I stopped reading like 8 years ago. That's a lot of back issues.

And totally with you on the bisexual part.

[neocloud9.livejournal.com]

Huh, cool. Bisexuality is something that's hard to convey in reality, so I'd imagine it'd be doubly hard in fiction. Not too surprised about that. We'll get there, eventually...

[wannabe-tenshi.livejournal.com]

Bisexuals get marginalized a lot, especially bisexual men
True.
I think bisexual men get marginalized for a few reasons... Like- the general consensus seems to be that men should be manly, not emotional. And (afaik) gay men are treated as worse kind of a men by other men. And women are either disgusted by them, or attracted to them (see: yaoi and slash fandom; and also irl because such men are much less likely to look at them as sexual objects), forgetting about bisexuality. And, as female world is more based on emotions (and less on power, fight and competition), it's easier for them to admit to being bisexual. (Especially seeing how the world is generally patriarchal and lesbians generally get more approval than gay men.)

And then there is also this sentence which I remember reading somewhere... How gay men are treated as worse kind of a men by other men because people automatically assume one of them is playing the role of a woman in the relationship, what makes him more womanly=less manly=worse. :/

Just my 2 cents. =X