While I was doing some research, looking for an answer for [Are Frog and Toad more than just friends?](https://literature.stackexchange.com/q/1696/115), I found [this article](http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/10/31/15-fictional-characters-who-are-also/) listing 15 fictional characters the author thinks are probably gay. Some of them are widely joked about (Bert and Ernie, Peter Pan), but two characters on the list were deeply mystifying: Old Yeller, and Edmund Pevensie from the *Chronicles of Narnia* series.

Granted, it's been a long time since I read the Narnia books, but I did read them again as an adult, and I can't remember a single thing that would suggest Edmund is gay, particularly if we confine ourselves the *The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe* as the list does. I can't recall any of the four Pevensie children having any kind of sexuality at all, except for some intimations about Susan in *The Horse and His Boy* and *The Last Battle*, so it seems to me we could as well say that Peter was gay and Lucy was a lesbian.

I very much doubt Lewis, as a Christian philosopher in the 1950's, would have written a gay character intentionally, but is there any way to interpret the text that would suggest Edmund is gay? Conversely, is there a way to interpret the text that suggests he's not gay?