An article (published in Dec. 09)by Megan Rose Gedris, who for the past 7 years has been writing and drawing comics with LGBT themes ( Read more... )

Post by gay blogger sparkindarkness.

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I ran across, in my internet browsing, someone who was frustrated by all the self-justification from straight women writing M/M fiction (all of it? personally I’ve seen very little self-justification - and a whole lot more appropriation without a second thought ( Read more... )

Author KZ Snow guest-blogs on Clare London's livejournal.

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Teapot tempests keep cropping up over straight women writing GLBT fiction -- and on such a regular basis, many female authors feel forced repeatedly to justify their involvement in the genre. Although I don't share the impulse (so keep in mind this is not a "why I write about gay ( Read more... )

Author E.N. Holland guest-blogs on ReviewsbyJessewave.

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I was reading a book recently and Character A and Character B were about to tumble into bed for the first time. The author used the word “lover” to describe the relationship of one man to the other. It pulled me completely out of the story-how could they be lovers? They had not yet ( Read more... )

The article is written by Dru Pagliassotti.

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For one thing, the new popularity of the male/male romance genre in the U.S. certainly wouldn’t be possible if it weren’t for the groundbreaking efforts of gay male romances, by which I mean m/m romances written by and primarily for gay men. Gay male romances have become increasingly mainstream ( Read more... )

Quote from the website ( Read more... )

Reviewer Mrs. Giggles blogs in reaction to the comments on the LA Weekly article on straight women writing gay romance.

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I feel that we all heading down that slippery slope when we arrogantly assume that non-GLBT women automatically understand the fight of the GLBT people for equal rights or that we are entitled to be bonded to GLBT people ( Read more... )

An(other) article, this time from LA Weekly discusses why straight women write and read gay romance. Title of the article: Man on Man: The New Gay Romance ... written by and for straight women.

Excerpt: In many ways the growing popularity of gay romance represents nothing less than a tectonic shift in a culture that says women don’t (and ( Read more... )

Author William Maltese blogged about his take on gay fiction written for women and gay fiction written for men. He also touches upon the differences in the perspectives of female and male writers and the use of male pseudonyms by female writers.

I have been noticing something, over the last few years, which causes me, at this time, to make comment ( Read more... )

sparkindarkness blogged about his thoughts on the m/m genre. The post is a couple of days old, but too interesting and relevant not to link it here.

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BUT, I am unwilling to throw away the whole category of m/m altogether. I as I said some authors of m/m write extremely good stories with gay characters. [...] I also do not buy into the idea that straight ( Read more... )