Actually, there is a mention in the first book (which I just finished rereading) of a man with a male daemon. Same-sex daemons are described as rare, but it doesn't specify whether these people are gay. However, a friend of mine met Philip Pullman at a book signing and asked him if that was the case. He said, "Well, it would appear that way."

:)

Check out my daemon!

It means that I'm "modest, spontaneous, responsible, inquisitive, and dependable."

I'm not sure about gay people and daemons -- I read the first two books in the trilogy ages ago (I still have good intentions about reading the third one) -- maybe lesbians have gay male daemons and vice versa?

I love "His dark materials" - even though it's a children's book there are many layers and parallels. Seemingly more so than in any Harry Potter (no offense).

And I was about to post about same sex daemons, but Megan beat me to it :) Wow, a friend of mine also met Philip at a book signing, recently. 

My daemon's Philoteus.

_ _ _ _ _

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." (Dr. Seuss)

Then again, what about bisexual folks? Would my daemon have to be some sort of hermaphroditic creature? Because that would be strange...

I agree that this trilogy is remarkably deep for a children's series, especially the last book. (I admit, I got choked up at the end.)

Rather than fixating on gender one could try energies (as in "yin-yang" principle); some people are more "feminin", others more "masculin"... and, well, one needs the other to balance things out, eh? 

_ _ _ _ _

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." (Dr. Seuss)

My Daemon is Pereus , a Lion Daemon . it means i'm responsible, modest , solitary , dependable , softly spoken.

Comme disait Jeanne D'Arc : " tu verras de quel bois je me chauffe " ;)

I took that quiz a while ago and it said my daemon was female, and since I'm an FTM trans guy I wondered if my daemon got a sex change too or if it was born female? I guess if my soul was male and my daemon was the representation of my soul and it was female all along, then that would make sense. But it amuses me to think of my daemon (I got a wolf) getting a sex change!

Haha, thinking way too much.

Olin

Means I'm responsible, assertive, solitary, shy and proud.

I had fun reading these books and I think this is the best casting EVER as far as Ms. Coulter is concerned! If I had to pick anyone in the world, I'd have chosen her as well!

As for the gay/lesbian daemon... well, I'd agree with the same gender thing only... as far as the steriotype goes... shouldn't gay's have 'too much' female hormones (aka a female daemon) and lesbians a male daemon for their overabundancy of male hormones?

Now I'm al confused... meh!

Anyways, daemon!

 Oh and that site (and the movie) looks beautiful! I think I'm actually gonna go see this :D

Who you gonna be if you can't be yourself,
you can't get it from t.v., you can't force it on
anybody else.-- Ani Difranco

There's a question about the same sex daemons on the FAQ of the fansite, but Philip Pullman doesn't give a clear answer.  http://www.bridgetothestars.net/index.php?p=FAQ#3

recently read "his dark materials" for a children's lit class and loved them. they totally lend themselves to a movie version.

and with nic kidman as mrs. coulter? you CANNOT go wrong!

I wouldn't call the books on a whole, childrens at all.

They delve to great depths that children cannot understand.

I look very much forward to the film, i'm glad that Nicole Kidman will be playing Mrs Coulter, she is just like the woman I pictured as I read.

I'm disappointed that they felt the need to change the title though, to suit the americans perhaps. I just hope that the basis of the films doesn't get ripped to shreds when it comes to questioning the Church >.>

I predicted these books would be turned into a movie when I first read them, four years ago. Nicole Kidman makes an amazing Mrs. Coutler.

I'm excited, but people tend to butcher books when they are made into movies, so I'm a little nervous as well. I hope this move turns out well.

he's a male tiger...

and I am modest, flexible, dependable, assertive and competitve

my daemon is a gibbon :(  There are lots of cool daemons and I got a monkey. I hate monkeys

Raccoons are clever and inquisitive, not to mention pretty bad-ass looking.

It bothers me that they're pronouncing daemon as "demon," and it will probably annoy me throughout the movie. Daemon is Greek for little god, like a small spirit, and is pronounced die-mone, almost like diamond. Pronouncing it demon is just going to get some fundamentalists up in arms about how the books/movies teach satanism and worship of devils or some such, when that's not the point at all. So I don't think that the comments about daemons are necessarily accurate, because the word is not meant to be read as impious at all (although I haven't read HDM yet, so I may be mistaken; but I think if the author intended to give the spirits a sinister edge, he would have just written "demon").

By the way, my soul is apparently Cleon the crow. Ca-caw.

---------------------

"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."

- Sigmund Freud