Author Stt Swenson giv his sight on how to wre Gay men for our How To Wre LGBTQIA+ Characters article seri.
Contents:
- BEYOND THE CLOSET: WRG GAY CHARACTERS
- WHY ARE SO MANY GAY ROMANCE NOVELS WRTEN BY STRAIGHT WOMEN?
- HOW TO WRE LGBTQIA+ CHARACTERS: GAY MEN
BEYOND THE CLOSET: WRG GAY CHARACTERS
Common perceptns about the gays & some reali wrers n e to enhance the characters wag to bt out of wrg closets. * straight authors writing gay characters *
I sometim refer to LGBT+ as gay this post.
WHY ARE SO MANY GAY ROMANCE NOVELS WRTEN BY STRAIGHT WOMEN?
A lot of stereotyp around gay people make to stori wrten by straight thors–the token gay iend, for example. Instead, I want to pot you to several articl wrten by LGBT+ people who generoly offer their perspective on wrg gay characters. Fally, tumblr’s miss turdle has a brilliant pilatn of rourc for wrg LGBT+ characters wh articl rangg om “How to wre gay characters mastream fictn” to “Wrg lbians when you’re not a lbian.
“If you’re wrg queer characters you need to have an awarens the text of the social climate, even if the story is not ‘about’ homophobia or transphobia or their attendant vlence. Troop, a gay protagonist, the edor jt naturally assumed the thor was gay as well.
HOW TO WRE LGBTQIA+ CHARACTERS: GAY MEN
By assumg he was gay, Burt’s edor ma an unrstandable mistake, bee why, after all, would a straight man want to create a gay protagonist?
An olr gay man did, as I had had many olr gay men take an tert me and my life my 20s. Forcg gay relatnships on otherwise straight characters.