User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Freed is gay....no, I'm serious./@comment-4047931-20120618143040/@comment-3403804-20130303235537

I got bored and decided to mention something here, according to how he's being portrayed - Bob is most likely a transvestite. This means, that he considers himself to be both female and male at once, depending on how he's dressed. When Bob flirts with Gray and Natsu, he's probably doing it as a woman, at least if he's truly a transvestite, if this is the case - he wouldn't qualify as gay, or even bisexual because he loves men like a woman, and not as another man. Basically, Bob is a unique case in that he can self-identify both as a man and a woman; although it seems he prefer the latter.

As for Hiro trying to appeal to his gay fanbase, perhaps, I'm flattered that he includes gay characters in his works, it makes it more three-dimensional and interesting to me, although as a gay man, I would naturaly have preferred Laxus over Freed. Please Hiro-sama, make that happen.