IN-PERSON: Gay Romantic Lerature Retreat – Prime Timers St. Louis

Contents:

• AMANDA MWISSEN AT GRL 2023 - GAY ROMANCE LERATURE RETREAT
• HAPPY GAY ROMANCE LERATURE RETREAT WEEKEND!
• THE IN AND OUTS OF NARRATG A GAY ROMANCE AUDBOOK
• IN-PERSON: GAY ROMANTIC LERATURE RETREAT
• GAY ROMANCE LERATURE RETREAT
• TAG ARCHIV: GAY ROMANCE LERARY RETREAT
• GAY ROMANCE: EROTIC?

AMANDA MWISSEN AT GRL 2023 - GAY ROMANCE LERATURE RETREAT

The GayRomL Retreat (GRL Retreat) is the mt-attend event for all who enjoy craftg, readg, and publishg LGBT romance.

For the first time ever, I will be attendg the GRL (Gay Romance Lerature) Retreat! Gay Erotic Stori.

HAPPY GAY ROMANCE LERATURE RETREAT WEEKEND!

Son of the Arch Demon Releasg 10/15/23GRL 2023 - Gay Romance Lerature Retreat. GRL (Gay Romance L Retreat) is gog on Kansas Cy, MO this week and while I uldn’t make , I know a lot of awome people who are gog to be there. As a wrer of gay mystery and gay romance, I’ve been a part of this rise, and today I’m terviewg three narrators of gay fictn about their experience this segment.

My guts are multi-award wners Joel Llie and Greg Tremblay, both wners of the Goodreads Rear’s Choice award for Bt Narrator M/M Romance, and the narrator of my Have Body, Will Guard gay adventure-romance seri, Stan Jenson, a lifelong profsnal actor.

For Greg, about 40-50% of those books are gay, while for Joel about two-thirds of those books feature gay protagonists.

THE IN AND OUTS OF NARRATG A GAY ROMANCE AUDBOOK

He was my first choice to narrate Mahu, the first of my gay mystery seri, bee of the multu of island voic. The unique challenge for narrators gay fictn is that there are often two male protagonists who need distct voic. Almost all of my big breaks om publishers have e first the form of somethg wh gay ntent.

“It was sarstic, actn-filled, steamy, and sweet…and allowed me to show immediately that I wasn’t gog to be locked to a sgle ia of what the “GAY CHARACTER” sounds like. Stan agre, “When I began, I mostly went for history or tnal books bee I have an announcer’s voice, but eventually dawned on me that I would have an edge performg gay fictn. Plenty of actors all fields succsfully play gay characters, but much as our gaydar n seek out kdred souls on the street, I thk the gay ear n hear a gay voice.

Gay Romantic Lerature Retreat. GayRomL is an annual retreat that brgs together the people who create and celebrate LGBT romance for a one-of-a-kd, mt-attend gatherg of dynamic, rmal, and diverse fun.

IN-PERSON: GAY ROMANTIC LERATURE RETREAT

Gay romance, which has often gone by the name Male/Male (M/M) due to s fan fictn origs (Brooks et. While the stori have a wi range of sexual ntact clud, some people today expect gay romanc to be more erotic than their heterosexual unterparts (Sue). This post will trace the history of erotic stori that preced gay romance, and the eroticizatn of the gay subgenre sce s ceptn.

To unrstand the emergence and eroticizatn of gay romance recent years, is important to trace mastream publishg’s portrayal of gay romantic relatnships through the years. While the gay romance subgenre wasn’t troduced mastream publishg until 2009 (Whalen 4), gay relatnships have been portrayed published works sce the 1950s and ‘60s.

It also clud materials wh lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer (LGBTQ) ntent of any kd (Bronski 679). Draft boards began screeng for homosexuals to expede discharg for soldiers spected of sodomy (Ben). Durg WWII, soldiers dishonorably discharged for homosexualy were dumped to big port ci (Stryker 11).

GAY ROMANCE LERATURE RETREAT

One wrer for the popular magaze Rollg Stone suggts they did so to avoid social ostracizatn back home, leadg to “large and visible gay muni [ plac like] San Francis, Los Angel, and New York” (Ben). It was at this time that some queer characters fictn began to bee somewhat visible (Hugh 626), but mastream romance was still years away om acceptg gay romantic relatnships. Supreme Court lgs to change the longstandg censorship laws (“Gay Amerin Pulps”).

Followg the legal victori, thors began producg a type of novels known as queer pulp fictn (“Gay Amerin Pulps”). The cheaply produced novels picted gay or lbian relatnships (Bronski 677).

The vast majory of the books had tragic endgs for homosexual characters (Bibler 127), and any of the novels featurg ‘bisexual’ characters end wh them beg a heterosexual relatnship or ath (Stryker 32). It was also a wdow for the general populatn to view gay relatnships, and what they saw was highly erotic (Micham). While Universy of Missouri associate profsor Elisa Glick not that this “goln age” of queer pulps was mostly lbian (Glick 124), Universy of Arizona profsor San Stryker not this era was one of bisexual them rather than beg explicly gay (Stryker 45).

TAG ARCHIV: GAY ROMANCE LERARY RETREAT

This also cid wh a substantial crease novels alg explicly wh gay sire stead of lbian (Stryker 107). The gay pulps were often more sexually explic than their lbian unterparts (Micham), monstratg how gay male relatnships were eroticzed before the gay romance subgenre was troduced.

The ‘70s and ‘80s brought the publitn of queer lerature, novels foced on the queer experience, outsi of gay pulps. The Stonewall Book Awards regnizg “exceptnal mer releatg to the gay/lbian/bisexual/transgenr experience” gave s first award 1971 (“Stonewall Book Awards”), and Lambda Lerary Awards followed su years later 1989 (“A Brief History of Lambda Lerary”). This era also brought the first happy endgs for gay upl.

M Forter’s (1879-1970) novel Mrice, posthumoly published by Hodr Arnold 1971, tapulted the gay romantic experience to the popular sphere (Brook 45), only a year before The Flame and the Flower, published by Avon 1972, opened the romance genre to explic sex (Faircloth).

GAY ROMANCE: EROTIC?

In fact, gay wrers the ‘70s stggled to pict their own relatnships.

If they spent too much time their lerary works on sex, they rerced existg notns that homosexuals were obssed wh sex (Bergman 181). When they left homosexual sex unreprented, they implied that was shameful (Bergman 181). Newspapers foced on the gay sex stead of the lerary ntent of gay fictn (Hugh 627), and the majory of gay fictn the ‘70s still picted men wh lots of partners (Hugh 635).