Alec

alec the blond

Isabelle snorted. "All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon."

"You noticed" said Simon.

"I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus.

"Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec. "Especially my father."

"I thought your parents were okay with you, you know, coming out,' Simon said, leaning around Isabelle to look at Alec, who was - as he often was - scowling, and pushing his floppy dark hair out of his eyes. Aside from the occasional exchange, Simon had never talked to Alec much. He wasn't an easy person to get to know. But, Simon admitted to himself, his own recent estrangement from his mother made him more curious about Alec's answer than he would have been otherwise.

"My mother seems to have accepted it," Alec said. "But my father - no, not really. Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay."

Simon felt Isabelle tense next to him. "Turned you gay?" She sounded incredulous. "Alec, you didn't tell me that."

"I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider," said Simon.

Magnus snorted; Isabelle looked confused. "I've read Magnus's stash of comics," said Alec, "so I actually know what you're talking about" A small smile played around his mouth. "So would that give me the proportional gayness of a spider?"

"Only if it was a really gay spider," said Magnus, and he yelled as Alec punched him in the arm. "Ow, okay, never mind."

--City of Lost Souls

In which every person that thinks it is okay to write Alec as straight is Robert Lightwood.

Okay, so we are going to talk about this excerpt for a second.

First: let us address the first bolded section. Isabelle clearly expresses that all of the boys (this includes Alec) are gay (this also includes Alec). And then in the underlined part she corrects herself and says that Simon is, in fact, not gay (you might wonder why I bring this particular line up, but it will be important later in this book).

This line from our beloved Lady Lightwood quite literally states the fact that they are gay.

Then, in the next bolded line, Magnus clarifies that he is not entirely gay. He is bisexual (this is also important for a later part in this book). He, therefore, is not entirely gay.

Notice that Alec does not deny Isabelle calling him gay (that's probably because he is).

Now in the next bolded part, Simon addresses Alec's coming out. This is a thing that any person of any sexuality other than hetero goes through, but it still tells you that he is not straight.

Now this next bold line really gets to me. "'he asked me what I thought had turned me gay.'" What? Turned him gay? That's not a thing. You don't get turned gay. That's the way you are born. Alec Lightwood may very well be a fictional character, but he is still just as gay as someone that is real. People are born the way that they are just as much as we are born with brown or blonde hair or blue or green eyes. It is a part of them.

If somebody wrote about me and described me as a blonde and blue-eyed beauty, I would think they are a little insane considering that's not at all what I look like. If somebody said that I was somebody who enjoyed sports, it would be ridiculous because I hate sports. And if somebody described me as straight, I would laugh, because it is only fifty percent true.

But for Alec it isn't. He is not bisexual in any way, shape, or form just as much as he is not blond or green-eyed. It would really be appreciated if people would stop portraying him as someone who is attracted to girls, because it is both ridiculous and untrue.

The rest of the lines I have bolded just emphasize how gay he is. He's really, really gay, people. Respect that.

Also, can we start telling people that Alec has the proportional gayness of a spider?