User blog comment:Paul.rea/Teen Wolf News 030514/@comment-24110506-20140306184050/@comment-6383956-20140307013256

What made it awkward was that Jinx hadn't told them anything about his personal life, and all of a sudden they're dealing with an ex boyfriend, with no idea if they're supposed to hate him because they have no idea how that relationship ended. (For instance, Pete's shock at discovering that Jinx was the dumpee not the dumper. Some of it was also that they intentionally drew parallels between Jinx's ex and Pete. And again, we're talking about a single episode -- series-wide Jinx's Buddhism is brought up more regularly, even though the characters totally accept Jinx for who he is.

And you know something, I was a gay teenager and I didn't go to any gay clubs until I was eighteen. Even now, I go a lot of places that aren't gay clubs. (Heck, sometimes I even go to straight clubs.) And yet, I somehow still manage to be a gay person. Danny's interested in computers -- maybe he goes to college computer night classes? Maybe he goes any number of other public places, we really don't know where else he would go because we know so little else about this character.

My point is that Danny's homosexuality is a big deal because it is the primary characteristic he has. Like, yes, no one pretends Lydia is a virgin. Lydia is also ridiculously smart and that gets at least as much attention as her sexuality. Her friendship with Allison is fantastic and we see a lot of it and, yes, they talk about boys but they talk about other things too. And Lydia's friendship with Scott is totally platonic. And, oh, right, she's a banshee. And she's a bit traumatized by having been Peter's tool. Danny and Jackson had, that I can recall, just one one-on-one conversation that his sexuality wasn't brought up in (and that was when Jackson was telling him to run).