We simply must understand that the tail is wagging the dog here and all it takes to stop this nonsense in its tracks is to stand up and declare that we are not going to stand for it anymore. It worked when they tried to shut down Chik-Fil-A last year and it worked again when they tried to get Duck Dynasty off the air.
I'm basically a let and live type of guy and it really doesn't concern me what consenting adults do in private, however, I detest the "in your face" attitude that these homosexuals have and their need to prance about in parades and such and allow their sexuality to define who they are. There are millions of heterosexuals who do not go around defining themselves as such. They simply go about their business and define themselves on what they have accomplished in life, not about who they decide to have sex with behind closed doors.
Somehow the world has produced a great body of literature over the past thousand years or so without having to resort to sexually graphic and pornographic content. It's placement in science fiction can only be gratuitous because sexual acts cannot possibly add to a science fiction story - or any other work of fiction. If a person wants to be titillated and sexually aroused through fiction, there's plenty of dime-store novels and magazines in adult bookstores to meet that need.
Concur. But there seems to be a subset of SF writers who apparently feel it necessary to introduce "gayness" throughout their stories. I quit reading Marion Zimmer Bradley's stuff because of it. But I never expected it of Analog, which has forgone graphic sexuality for as long as I have been reading it (forty years, off an on...much more "on" than "off").
The climate change stuff Analog pushes actually makes a bit of sense, as it describes a possible future (no matter how unlikely). The "queerness" is simply gratuitous, and totally unnecessary to pretty much ANY SF storyline.