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.
A lot of stereotyp around gay people make to stori wrten by straight thors–the token gay iend, for example.
WHY ARE SO MANY GAY ROMANCE NOVELS WRTEN BY STRAIGHT WOMEN?
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.
HOW TO WRE LGBTQIA+ CHARACTERS: GAY MEN
“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. 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. This happens a lot fanfictn – characters who are tablished by the actual work as beg straight sudnly havg a revelatn and realizg how horrible the oppose sex is and beg gay – or even takg a character’s genr exprsn and nng amok wh , cidg that they’re “really” trans.