About Gale's romantic motivations:

Originally Posted by DiscountCanadian
If I may provide a counter, instead of not telling Tav about his condition because he thought Tav wouldn't sleep with him if they knew, what if Gale told Tav after because he felt he could finally open up and or trust them with that information?

I'm not quite sure what you mean here - he tells Tav exactly why he didn't open up before their night together, and it wasn't because of trust. Are you saying he's lying, or is this a 'What if?' rewrite of his motivations?

Note that he's perfectly willing to trust a non-romanced (or ex-romanced, if you deny him sexy times) Tav without sleeping with them.