lilacsigil: John Byrne art of Destiny and Mystique, caption "Destined" (destiny mystique)
lilacsigil ([personal profile] lilacsigil) wrote in [personal profile] kindkit 2014-12-04 09:53 am (UTC)

the result is canons that give a lot more room for relationships between male characters to be deep and complex and for subtext to flourish

Yes, I think that (with the exception of most queer authors) this is often a better place for me than actual text. And, like you, I agree that there's a genre issue here, too: the kind of texts I like are often very much lacking in open queerness.

Every single queer text I found was a treasure, with the result that I have a lingering affection for certain things whose portrayal of queer characters is not really all that good.


I remember this stage! I read a lot of Marion Zimmer Bradley anthologies. And books about the Beatles that included Brian Epstein and sometimes a bit of John Lennon/Stuart Sutcliffe. And some really homoerotic early Star Trek novels.

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