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GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT: GAY M&MS AND MORE GARLIC
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Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr.
Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc.
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Wh the romance genre, this typilly equat to a heterosexual relatnship, which requir M/M romance thors to adapt tradnal rol of a romantic relatnship om hero/heroe as well as mon mascule stereotyp orr to f homosexual relatnships wh the hero/heroe dynamic (Crisp 335). Acrdg to Thomas Crisp his analysis of gay adolcent fictn, real-world stigma mak difficult for M/M romance to exist outsi of a “utopian” settg, a settg that do not reflect realy but is stead altered to su the story that is beg told. History, and the herent homophobia clud the majory of the world’s history, mak historil and regency subgenr, two of the most popular subgenr acrdg to the RWA, almost impossible wh the realm of M/M romance, barrg an thor’s artistic liberti.
M/M thor Josh Lanyon not this creasg ntrast between M/M romance novels and those earlier, highly-sexualized short stori, which are typilly noted as eher or “gay romantic fictn” or “slashfic. ” He explas, “All M/M fictn is romance fictn, but the stand-out thg about M/M vers gay romantic fictn is that there’s a distct sensibily to M/M fictn. In effect, ’s gay men love and makg love vers gay men fuckg” (Lanyon 18).
The cisn sparked backlash not only for s homophobic implitns, but also for s clash wh RWA’s own fn of romance fictn: “The ma plot centers around dividuals fallg love and stgglg to make the relatnship work” (Romance Wrers of Ameri, “About the Romance Genre” sectn, para. Author Jamie Fsenn propos that gay men stggle to wre the typil style of published M/M romance bee of the promence of trop like strict monogamy and the view of anal sex as the only “real” form of sex, which n ntrary to many same-sex relatnship dynamics (Fsenn, para. The heart of the issue may rt M/M romance’s predomantly female thorship, through which the “wre what you know” mantra rults what is sentially a heterosexual dynamic implanted a homosexual relatnship (Brownworth, para.
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Mastream LGBT advocy has strsed that gay men are no different than straight men, at least terms of the human rights to which they are entled, but M/M fictn is often hampered by a leral terpretatn of this “no different” perspective, rultg romantic dynamics that fall short of addrsg the emotnal and sexual trici that set real-life, same-sex relatnships apart om heterosexual romanc. In fact, gay male and thor of M/M romance, Jamie Fsenn, wrote on his blog, “M/M romance may be about gay men, but isn’t really ours” (Fsenn). Popular them and trop like gay-for-you and monogamo relatnships further crease the divi between the ialized view of same-sex relatnships M/M romance novels and the realy of same-sex relatnships.
This divi has ed many to qutn whether women n wre thentic gay male romance. Whereas some argue that gay mal are the only thentic M/M romance thors, Brownworth par female thors of M/M romance to “male pulp wrers and pornographers [who] wrote about lbians as sexual objects” (Brownworth); th, shiftg the bate om “n women wre gay romance” to “how women wre gay romance” and the sometim herent sexual fetishizatn of gay mal through the novels.