In message 20010304011223.39010.qmail@web12402.mail.yahoo.com, Fiona Moore nydersdyner@yahoo.co.uk writes
Now there's where I would disagree with you, I'm afraid. There is some evidence for heterosexual relationships/feelings/leanings between some of the principal characters on B7. There is no evidence of homosexual ones for these characters
Regardless of what was intended by those who created the series - if Avon had been played in exactly the same way, but by Pauline rather than Paul, I for one would assume that something was going on between Avon and Blake that involved more than agape or phileo. Nowadays I see it in canon as it was played, although I don't see them as having ever done anything about it. And my conversion to "A/B can be seen in canon" was partly as a result of someone asking me what I'd have thought about certain scenes had Avon been played in exactly the same manner, but by a woman.