HBO - Game of Thrones SPOILERS INSIDE. you have been warned

[Jakensama]

I know some people want to believe it is HBO pushing a cultural agenda, but GRRM specifically stated he was gay and the books are replete with references. So either GRRM is a big fat liar and pulled it out of his ass (see what I did there), or they were always gay..

Although after a google it seems a lot of the more obvious comments were in Book 3 when Loras was a bigger character.

http://www.angelfire.com/ma4/mlarchives/...renly.html

Lots of quotes there, probably spoilers if you haven't finished SOS yet.

"Renly is “gay in the books, too,” says George R.R. Martin, the author of the bestselling novels. But online chatter suggests that not every reader picked that fact up.

“I never meant to make it a mystery,” Martin says. “I like to handle things subtly. I couldn’t ever actually say, ‘such-and-such is gay,’ because, as I’m sure you know, the word wasn’t invented until the 60s. And I’m talking medieval times, and I’m not going to say, ‘so-and-so is gay.’ But I thought it was pretty clear in context

.” "

http://www.afterelton.com/tv/2011/01/gay...rge-martin

It makes sense to be more obvious in the show as being subtle doesn't work and there are some things with margery that will be pertinent in the seasons to come..