Jumping back to an early comment:
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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
And, of course, there were the passing references to us pesky gays as deviants, even in the non-gendered world of Winter.
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I'm not quite done (maybe there's some in the part I haven't finished, hopefully tomorrow) but I didn't see any reference I would take as derogatory to gays. The closest I remember is this passage.
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If there are exceptions, resulting in kemmer-partners of the same sex, they are so rare as to be ignored.
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I took that to mean that Le Guin didn't want to deal with that particular topic in this book, she was already diving in enough with what she did include, so she set it up to be a non-issue on Winter. That said, given the cultures of Winter, I doubt a same-sex kemmer partner would be an issue. Unusual, yes but just due to their biology, but nothing beyond that.