<p>Whether a book is 'gay' or 'straight' don't bother me - but do seem to be an issue for heterosexual books edors.</p>
Contents:
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- WHY ARE SO MANY GAY ROMANCE NOVELS WRTEN BY STRAIGHT WOMEN?
- WHY DON'T STRAIGHT PEOPLE READ GAY BOOKS?
- WHAT WOMEN WANT: GAY MALE ROMANCE NOVELS
- 21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW
- 60 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS THAT ARE THE BT THE GENRE: THE ULTIMATE GUI
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
When I started workg as a book reviewer 2009, gay romance was explodg as a popular romance genre. (Technilly what I’m talkg about is lled “male/male romance”; “gay romance” is wrten by gay men for gay men, may not foc on a romantic relatnship, and don’t guarantee a happily-ever-after.
WHY ARE SO MANY GAY ROMANCE NOVELS WRTEN BY STRAIGHT WOMEN?
But outsi the dtry, the distctns are elid, and most people thk of all male-male romance novels as “gay.
The first time I noticed this, I flipped the book over my hands, back and forth, lookg at the ultra-gay ver art, and then the thor’s photo on the back.
WHY DON'T STRAIGHT PEOPLE READ GAY BOOKS?
Bee they’ve been told so by a culture that has long treated gay men as a ntered, fetishized object of cursy.
WHAT WOMEN WANT: GAY MALE ROMANCE NOVELS
Everywhere, the media giv the gay-bt-iend dynamic: straight women treatg cis gay men like pets. In this dynamic, which I see enacted gay romance novels, the tth of the man’s queerns is erased, bee the character is gay only the ways the straight woman thor n image. The characters, who are labeled as gay, are only fantasi — -straight women’s fantasi, shared wh an dience of straight women.
21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW
When a straight woman cis to “reem” the gay narrative by makg her ma characters mastream-hot, cisgenred, able-bodied guys, and “giv them” a happy endg, she is not makg progrs.
60 GAY ROMANCE NOVELS THAT ARE THE BT THE GENRE: THE ULTIMATE GUI
My cricism of straight women -optg gay bodi for their own pleasure is based on the belief that no person n ethilly e other people, pecially margalized people, to benef themselv. Claimg that gay romance wrten by straight women is somehow “LGBTQ reprentatn, ” only mak thgs worse. Straight women seem to feel entled to wre gay characters bee they thk homosexualy is simply an herent sire to attract and please a man.
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
Ripti Publishg produced the lovely and subtle Hopels Romantic, about a gay man who falls love wh a trans girl. The gems are the fulfillment of what gay romance n be: LGBTQ thors, wrg about LGBTQ characters, for an dience of all kds of rears, cludg straight women. I suggt that a greater diversy of thors might enlarge the mastream’s unrstandg of what means to be gay.