Haru washes his hands and hangs up and comes back over to the couch where he left Lucien and hugs him. "Uh, this would actually work better if we were not wearing shirts, I don't know if you're comfortable with that. A lot of esper partners just have sex, I don't with June but that's only partly because I'm gay."

Oh he is back and hugging maybe he doesn't hate Lucien after all. 

"... I'm confused, what does you being gay have to do with us hugging or sex?"

"......do you know what 'gay' means."

"I mean I thought it meant like, happy and care free?"

"Ah, well, it used to but nowadays mostly means homosexual."

"Huh."

.....

"Just checking, is this somehow my fault."

"No, and also it's sort of rude to construe being gay as a thing that is bad such that it'd warrant the term 'fault'."

"I am um. Not particularly trying to do that? It was very inconvenient to be in my time is that no longer true?"

"It is no longer particularly inconvenient. We can get married and stuff, at least hereabouts."

".... That is odd and I am also confused about it. Also I am now wondering if the important difference is that society got the chance to evolve without me around to make it worse but probably that isn't true I think?"

"The important difference from what? We don't have an example of a 2034 in which you lived out your life sans time travel."

"I suppose without that we can't be sure that prejudice against same-sex attracted people is my fault, yeah."

"Well, there isn't much of it these days, at least not in Canada." The information is now there if Lucien wants to have sex and if he doesn't Haru's not going to press the point.

"... Both my parents were same-sex attracted. I'm um, not used to mentioning this but given that they are both dead and it's okay for them to be that now I figured it would be okay."

"Yes, that's fine."

"Um - I'm confused about how I feel about us hugging - I'm attracted to woman."

"Some people like both. The hugs can be platonic, that's totally fine."

"Like both?"

"Gay usually means exclusively homosexual, but some people are bisexual."

"...Huh. I didn't know that was an option."

"Well, good news. Or neutral news, whatever."

"This maybe recontextualizes a lot of things."

"Oh?"