People continued to speculate on her sexuality. For example, Samuel R. Delany recalls asking Octavia outright if she was gay. According to Delany, in 1997 they were at a gay club in Atlanta because someone had dropped the two speakers off there. Delany assumed they had chosen that venue because he was openly gay. And then he wondered whether it was because Octavia was queer as well. She replied to his query by shrugging and saying, “Probably.”
