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My favorite kind of anti blog post is when they’re like, “If you really wanted representation, you’d pick Sam to be the bi one.” Mainly because I’m like, “No, no, you don’t understand. This isn’t an either-or situation. I want to interpret all of them as queer without people telling me it’s ~enough~.” 

Queer Sam? Heck yeah. Queer Charlie. Queer Dean. Queer Jody. Queer Donna. Queer Crowley. Queer Rowena. Queer Hannah. Queer Mary. Queer Bobby. Queer Ellen. (Holy shit. Queer Ellen. Jesus.) Queer Kevin. Queer Benny. Queer recurring characters. Queer characters that only show up in one episode. ~Flaunt~ the possibility of queerness in everyone’s face, until heteronormativity ain’t a thing anymore. (The thing that’s truly maddening is most of these characters have never said a damn word about their sexuality, but they’re all assumed to be straight.)

*Oprah voice* And you get a queer headcanon! And you get a queer headcanon! Everybody gets a queer headcanoooooon!

ABSOLUTELY.
All the characters are potentially queer, basically. The only difference is that a heavy weight of subtext within the show happens to be on Dean, so he is our best bet for a character to be made CANONICALLY queer, & provide real representation, so it makes sense to focus efforts there. This is no way takes away from the ability of others to see more characters as queer.

That argument is NerdBoy Gatekeepers all over the place, trying to show how much superior to the Fake Geek Girls they are.

So much this! Queer anyone! Queer everyone! (Hey, straight people have no compunctions against claiming anyone and everyone as straight, so turn-about is fair play!) There’s literally no compelling reason to assume that any given character is straight, once you remove the presumption that straight is the default.

Claiming they’d support a different character being queer often reeks of “you can only have characters I don’t care so much about,” or worse, “I only support queer representation as an abstract concept – not as an actual reality.”

The idea that if we “really cared about representation” we’d have no preference at all as to which characters were queer rests on several grossly heteronormative presumptions:

1. That it’s either/or (as this post already addresses)
2. That straight people have automatic ownership of all characters, and thus it’s entirely their call whether or not to toss us the occasional crumb (i.e. they inherently deserve everything, we inherently deserve nothing, so we’d better be damn grateful cause it’s pure generosity to give us anything at all)
3. That it’s simply unthinkable that there might be any subtext specifically around Dean – straight fans who don’t see it are automatically right, queer fans who do are automatically delusional (which is homophobic as fuck)
4. That sexuality (though really just queer sexuality) is an arbitrary label, an inconsequential afterthought, not an integral part of who a person is. That it’s so superficial and irrelevant that it makes absolutely no difference which character it’s slapped onto. (Curiously, this is the exact opposite of the constant claim that a particular character can’t be queer, cause they don’t fit some narrow stereotype.)

We don’t want Dean to be “made” queer – we want acknowledgment that he’s already queer (insofar as a fictional character “has” any implicit traits – but that’s a tangential matter of literary theory and the relationship between subtext and main text). Could other characters also be queer? Well duh! But what the hell does that have to do with Dean being queer? Two different peoples’ orientations are two completely distinct entities. Would they argue that my cousin can’t be queer, because I am? Queerness is not a finite resource! There’s more than enough queerness to go around!