Hah. I had to run off and see what I'd commented with, if anything. I keep running into people who had that reaction to the Vanyel trilogy too. I loved those books and her work in general when I was 13, but I had the exact opposite reaction in terms of gay themes. Her books always made me feel like she had a creepy fascination with beautiful, suffering gay men, but lesbians weren't worth writing about except as token cameo characters whose yucky sexuality we don't have to look too closely at. Ditto most female characters in general, though with more exceptions. It destroyed my ability to take her books as actually pro-gay or pro-woman. (And this was at the height of my love for her too.) Then again, the same could be said of many of the authors I liked at that age. (Poppy Z. Brite's early work was so, so much worse.)