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‘I JT WANT SOMETHG THAT’S GAY AND HAPPY’: L.G.B.T.Q. ROMANCE IS BOOMG
The GayRomL Retreat (GRL Retreat) is the mt-attend event for all who enjoy craftg, readg, and publishg LGBT romance. Thilen for The New York Tim‘I Jt Want Somethg That’s Gay and Happy’: L. Gay characters were once nfed to niche markets, or to peripheral rol and tragic endgs the mastream — a tenncy that spawned the sardonic tchphrase “bury your gays.
“Ctomers will e and say, ‘I jt want somethg that’s gay and happy. I jt need to know that ’s gay and slaps and they’re gog to kiss. “The secret baby is hard to do queer fictn, ” said Jeff Adams, a romance thor and -host of the Big Gay Fictn Podst.
”For many years, dtry executiv say, the assumptn was that if you were readg a book about gay people, you yourself were gay. “There are gog to be people who would never have picked up a gay romance or a lbian romance who may see an ad the subway, ” she said. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn C, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: ‘I Jt Want Somethg That’s Gay And Happy’.