*dives in*

In case anyone hasn't seen it, I really liked this brief interview with Greg Rucka, in which he says his intention was definintely to bury the "Bury your gays' trope:

It was also important to me, very early on, to make it clear that there weren’t ‘conditions’ that had to be fulfilled to have this immortality. You didn’t have to be a straight white guy. That was basically it. The team needed to represent a breadth and depth of diversity. I just didn’t want anybody coming away from the audience, or coming away from the book, going "Ah, so it’s a reward for this kind of behavior.”