Pardon, but your tie is not symmetrical.

Also you know something I found interesting in this book

It’s that it actually, in a way, acknowledged a difference between homophobia and biphobia from Troy. I mean subtly, not in so many words exactly, but it says that Troy’s “resentment against Tim was now doubled” when he finds out Tim is bisexual not gay as Troy assumed and that he has slept with a woman Troy fancies.

And when we still even now live in a world where so many people are like “biphobia doesn’t exist that’s just homophobia!!!”

it’s interesting that someone managed to acknowledge a distinction and recognise that a bi man can experience both and not simply homophobia in a novel from over 30 years ago.

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from Death of a Hollow Man by Caroline Graham

I’m not saying the books or the show are perfect in terms of queer representation and some of decisions about the transferral from book to screen seem especially questionable but

I love this, that in the books Troy (who is not presented as a particularly likeable person) is an oblivious, huge homophobe and biphobe but Tom Barnaby is repeatedly referred to as being, shall we say, massively unimpressed by Troy’s bigotry (and his attitude to that was also kept in the show, in Blue Herrings for instance).