Common perceptns about the gays & some reali wrers n e to enhance the characters wag to bt out of wrg closets.
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
* 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.
HOW TO WRE LGBTQIA+ CHARACTERS: GAY MEN
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. 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.