Bronte-Marie Wesson

And it was important to me, but it wasn't something I was very conscious of.

It was just very organic.

I was like, oh, you're gay and you're a lesbian and you're bisexual, I guess.

Didn't realize that.

Um, and as it came in, I was like, cool, this may or may not be relevant, but it's all going to exist.

And for the, the, the big, the big important ones, I was like, I want to write this because this is currently something that's being pushed back against as representation.

And I find that abominable because queer people have existed for thousands and thousands of years in other cultures.

And only very recently have we started seeing this really hard pushback against people merely existing.

If it doesn't hurt you, I'm not sure what the problem is.

Yes.

Yeah, more can always be done.

But I think there's a trap that people fall into.

I was doing a panel at Supernova about world building and the characters.

And the question I got asked was, how do you write queer characters and make them feel like people?

And my response was just so you write people who also happen to be queer.

Like you don't go in with here's the L, here's the G, here's the B, here's the T, here's the Q, here's the I, here's the A. Write a bunch of people and organically some of them can happen to be queer.

I feel that's how we kind of develop.

We're all people first I like to think.

It's like overthinking it.

I don't know any drag queens who popped out of the womb with a wig on.