fred-erick-frankenstein reblogged
““Well, Troy. What do you think?” Troy knew that it was not his opinion of homosexuals that was being solicited. There had been a particularly repulsive example of the species in a case the previous year at Badger’s Drift and Troy’s suggestions as to how the man’s activities might be curtailed had been very frostily received. His chief was funny like that. Hard as iron in many ways. Harder than the iron men who thought they could never be broken and were now serving their time. Yet he had these peculiar soft spots. Wouldn’t come out and condemn things that everyone knew to be rotten.”
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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).