Talk:Alison Bechdel

message: She's on List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual people - but is she lesbian, bisexual, or maybe even straight?
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by MyRedDice (talk • contribs).
:She is most assuredly a lesbian. Good heavens. (If you need more specific proof than, well, her entire oeuvre, check out The Indelible Alison Bechdel.) - Montrealais
::The article makes no mention of her sexuality. Although she is listed in several lesbian categories, this is very unclear for a casual reader who may not be familiar with Bechdel.--ZayZayEM 07:02, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it does say that she married her partner Amy Rubin.  Not many guys named Amy.  That said, where do you think it would be appropriate to say this explicitly? —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 15:46, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They would have to be so casual as to only read every fifth word. -- 98.108.203.177 (talk) 03:51, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Lesbian?

message: Since this bit of information has apparently become an issue, we need to answer a few questions: (1) what is it's source?  For example, is it common knowledge that AB freely makes known in interviews? (2) How relevant is it to the article? (3) Do other entries list a writer's (or artist's) partner?  --Galliaz 11:35, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Since marriage history is a normal part of biography, I added Ms. Bechdel's.  I was surprised that I couldn't find a wikipedia article about the San Francisco weddings to link to, incidently.  At least there is a gay marriage link.  --Jaibe 01:06, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Ah.  In a recent Guardian article AB says she recently lost her long-term partner.  That may account for the thrashing in on this page last July.  Marriage histories are often documented in Wikipedia (see Richard Dawkins) and I think the fact the two of them were married in the SF event is still an interesting bit of history.  But I'm not sure how to handle this more recent bit of news.  Maintaining an up-to-date relationship history seems morbid and invasive.  On the other hand, she documented her marriage on her blog and credited Rubin in many of her books, and she has now publicly documented the end of the relationship. --Jaibe 20:09, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's certainly a delicate issue, I agree.  Just for the record, I thought I'd provide a link to the 10.16.06 Guardian article.  --Galliaz 20:47, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

text: This is AB's comment about relationships from the Guardian article: " 'I am quite distanced on my own life, she concedes. 'I fit the life in around the work. I don't really have a life apart from my work. I have no kids, no partner. I actually just broke up with my partner of 13 years, partly because all I do is sit in my basement, drawing.' "  Just to clarify the nature and context of her statement.--Galliaz 12:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I read the linked article.  I think that as long as we cite things properly, it should be OK to mention this briefly.  If this were a notable heterosexual cartoonist, who was saying "I have no kids, no wife.  I actually just divorced my wife of 13 years, partly because all I do is sit in the basement, drawing", would we be debating whether or not to include the information?  I understand the desire not to be invasive, but it's not like we'd be revealing anything AB hasn't revealed herself. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 21:13, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: actually I'd feel exactly the same way about discussing anyone's current relationship issues.  Just because they were mentioned once in the press doesn't make them encyclopedia material -- I certainly have regretted things I've apparently said that I've read in the press.  An encyclopedia article shouldn't be a soap opera I don't think.  I agree that the Rubin relationship and marriage are significant enough to be mentioned in a bio page, but I think there should probably be a "cooling off period" around major relationship events before they get written up in any detail.  I think we should leave this part of the article as it is now and come back to it in a couple years.  Or maybe in the current mention of Amy Rubin replace "long-term" with "partner since 1992".  But I'd rather leave out the "then partner"-type business until there is more water under the bridge.--Jaibe 20:00, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info on AB's partner 

message: Ha!  I thought from the history / change notice someone had bio-ed Alison's cat, but no, it was fixing a category.    By the way, some more obsessive fan than me should make pages for all the books besides Fun Home... --Jaibe 20:43, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  cat, books 

message: As part of the MacArthur Grant announcement, the Foundation released three photos of her under a Wikipedia Commons compatible license.  I uploaded the first to WikiCommons at File:Bechdel 2014 hi-res-download 3 2.jpg, all three can be found near the bottom of .   FYI, --j⚛e deckertalk 00:22, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
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message: Should she be added to the category of "people with obsessive-compulsive-disorder"? Her book Fun Home mentions it with some depth (though it's a less prominent point than what the book is most known for). 136.63.0.206 (talk) 02:09, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  OCD category