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This just in: You don’t have to be a member of the LGBTQ+ community yourself to enjoy a book with a queer narrative. There are more stories than ever featuring gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, or queer characters, and if you’re looking for a read that reflects your own experience or...
“higher” education meant “elevating” one's mind with the aid of either a reefer or a bong, along with ample amounts of alcohol. Years later, destiny lured Mr. Thele to Austin, Texas, where he currently lives vicariously through characters he congers up in twisted far-fetched fictional...
While gay & lesbian fiction crossed many genres, LGBT+ fiction refers to novels that include characters who don’t identify themselves as straight or heterosexual. If you’re searching for a relatable trans, lesbian, gay, or bisexual character, check out this section for non-heteronormative titles...
we have lost the sense of imminent danger that the novel portrays. To really understand the characters and their actions, we need to appreciate that in the world of the story, what is at stake is not just the existence of the United States as a constitutional democracy, but the very fate...
“We were all treating [No Way Home] as the end of a franchise…I think if we were lucky enough to dive into these characters again, you’d be seeing a very different version. It would no longer be theHomecomingtrilogy.” He then went on to say that if they did move on with the...
I know where the story is, generally, going and the main threads that the characters will follow. One of the first things I need to figure out before writing a book is how the two main characters’ emotional issues will intertwine and fit with the rest of the outer story. Once I ...
heat, and diversity of transgender and genderqueer sexualities. The power of seeing and being seen is a central theme in the anthology; it’s not simply about passing or not passing (an idea often explored with transgender characters), but about being acknowledged and desired in a sexual conte...
But the book is still cute and light and frothy, following the paces of a foody romance, with an LGBT+ spin. I did like that this one felt Queer in incredibly inclusive ways (I think the only cis/het characters were Syd’s parents); I felt like (as an outsider) that the whole rai...
‘are there LGBT characters?’ and ‘is there a person of colour as a central character?’. In the end, I made it a catalogue of just books by women, because that’s an axe I’ve got to grind with the science fiction & fantasy community: hardly anyone ever recommends me books by ...