Lbian and Gay Male Language Use: A Cril Review of the Lerature on JSTOR

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• LGBTQIA: GAY FICTN & LERATURE

LGBTQIA: GAY FICTN & LERATURE

“Gretchen: One thg that happens wh third-person pronouns is what I have lled a blog post The Gay Fanfictn That very ser lguistic problem. There’s the Gay Fanfictn Problem, and then there’s the Poly Fanfictn Problem, and those are two separate Yep, but when they lli ’s very plited. Gretchen: Then there’s The Gay Poly Fanfictn But not all languag have this problem for their gay fanfictn!

Gretchen: I don’t know if all languag wre gay fanfictn but they prumably all tell stori where multiple people are volved. Gretchen: So several sign languag have solved the Gay Poly Fanfictn Problem, and all other languag will have to figure out how to do Playg tch-up, reallyGretchen: Or jt learn a sign language so you n wre better fanfic. Lbian and Gay Male Language Use: A Cril Review of the Lerature on JSTOR.

YIU DONT KNOW bc english is a bullsh language also known as, the gay fanfictn dilemmaWe have the same problem portugueThat’s very ol.

Even more tertgly though, this puts onto lookg at how other languag solve the gay fanfictn problem.

So French is dog okay at M-rated gay fic but Swedish is still wng at Gen fic. So Ewe do not solve the gay fanfictn “he took his hand” problem as far as I n tell, but do beat Swedish at the perhaps even more important “he said that he loved him, but the only thg was…he didn’t love him back” angsty gay fanfictn problem. My church and the Christian school I attend growg up were the type that had the philosophy of "hate the s, love the sner, " but also tght that homosexualy would likely land you Hell.

My first real posive exposure to homosexualy was readg fanfictn. Readg them, I began to see that homosexualy was not an abomatn like people had told me, but was jt pretty much like any other relatnship. The romantic pairg was shortened to “K/S”, which gradually rmed the slang for fictnal gay romance, as wrten fanworks, as “slash” is likely where the nnotatn of fanfictn wh homoeroticism began; as “slash fictn” grew, began to rporate other inti and exprsns.

But this is also where the negative associatn of fanfictn wh lewdns or distastefulns; n’t be a cince that fan-wrten works sudnly gaed a negative associatn when a large group of fans favored a gay romance. “Slash” or homoerotic works fill gaps created by Hollywood’s own bldns to s misogyny, heteronormativy, and machismo.

Queerg Morn MediaFanfictn offers reprentatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer dividuals media that otherwise lacks to s nature of anonymy, fanfictn has always been an vg space for young wrers who are “still figurg out” regards to their sexual or genr exprsn.