The main character in Ender’s Game exterminates a race of aliens called “buggers” who presented an existential threat to humanity.
The primary dictionary definition of “buggers” happens “sodomites” (Merriam-Webster). Card sees homosexuality as presenting an existential threat to civilization and writes things such as that openly homosexual people “cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens”.
Card is a very careful writer, and his choice of names is no mere coincidence. You really cannot separate the artist from the art in this case.
