In message 030f01c0a831$f2edaba0$8cae01a3@1.174.140.stx.ox.ac.uk, Fiona Moore nydersdyner@yahoo.co.uk writes
I wasn't the one talking in terms of right *or* wrong. I was pointing out that one side has hard, onscreen evidence to back up their position, whereas all the other side has is "a bit of a feeling," and the fact that nothing occurs to directly contradict that feeling (Look, what would it take to convince you? Blake saying "you may have heard of me, my name's Blake and I'm a heterosexual?" Travis saying "His name... *was* Blake, and by the way he was straight?" Avon saying "I've located Blake on Gauda Prime, and he's still straight?"Good grief.)
Which assertion is causing much of the disagreement. You keep saying "we all know...", when we *don't* all know. Had I been asked, before I ever heard of slash, what Blake's sexuality was, I would have said, "probably gay", based on the very same scenes that you keep citing as evidence of his interest in Jenna. When I look at those scenes, I see a man who likes a women, but has no sexual interest in her.
Your evidence is *not* hard, because it can be interpreted very differently, and by someone who is not trying to support a slash view. I'm a recent convert to slash (ironically, the first time I ever encountered the concept was in Horizon's call for stories that said "no slash"), and I have a very clear memory of my reaction on encountering the notion that Blake and Avon might be having it off. "Blake, yes, I think he's probably gay anyway given his complete disinterest in the women he meets, but Avon likes the ladies too much."