Comment Re:Torn (Score 1) 470
Reading that excerpt, I am left with the impression that he just didn't have time for meaningful relationships, he devoted himself to his work instead. Nowhere does it actually say that he is gay, though you can read that into what he says. There is a section that says:
And those who are cut off from it by their own desires, by those twists and bends that turn them in another way-like you, Bean, so determined are you that no more children will be born with your defect, and that there will be no children orphaned by your death- those who are cut off because they think they want to be cut off, they are still hungry for it, hungrier than ever, especially if they deny it. It makes them angry, bitter, sad, and they don't know why, or if they know, they can't bear to face the knowledge.
He is specifically coming out and saying that Bean's desires are twisted into not having children, not that Bean is gay or that Anton is gay. Anton threw himself into his work rather than trying to find someone to marry, there are many people who do that.
Frankly, it is a book of its time. Shadow puppets was published in 2002, they gay marriage debate wasn't really an issue back then, most homosexual people were just looking for acceptance of them as they are at that point in time.