With slash, I think it depends on the characters and their situation. If you're writing about a couple of tough American cops, then it would be unrealistic not to at least allude to the problematic aspects.
HP is already fantasy, so HP slash can usually afford to skip over the grim and gritty problems of (internal and external) bias against queers. On the other hand, the HP universe is very concerned with blood and heirs... keeping pureblood families alive. Homosexuality would be a problem for that. In HP, I think you can plausibly take it either way, depending on what story you want to tell.
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Date: 2004-06-22 02:10 pm (UTC)HP is already fantasy, so HP slash can usually afford to skip over the grim and gritty problems of (internal and external) bias against queers. On the other hand, the HP universe is very concerned with blood and heirs... keeping pureblood families alive. Homosexuality would be a problem for that. In HP, I think you can plausibly take it either way, depending on what story you want to tell.