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fandomsecrets2018-12-15 04:26 pm
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(Anonymous) 2018-12-16 04:02 am (UTC)(link)It's that I'm not going to find a lot of protagonists like me, or if I do they're gonna go through suffering porn. Because that's what it's like to be gay. Worse, you rarely if ever end up wit original works that are starring gays that aren't romances! I don't want to just be relegated to romances, bitch!
I'm just not about getting invested in shit I was forced to read all through high school and junior high. I'm tired of straight male protags.
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I read a lot of urban fantasy that is fairly diverse. The current one I'm reading is a likely het romance (the main character is a girl that I'm pretty sure is going to end up with a guy later in the series, but it wont likely be in the first book as I've almost finished it), but her best friend who is on the adventure with her is a gay guy. The series I read before that has three interconnected series. One starring a guy, two with leading girls. There is not much romance at all, and while the three leads appear straight, there are lesbian and gay supporting characters, as well as a gender non-conforming one.
Granted I'm reading through Kindle Unlimited, which is pretty much self-published, not mainstream, but it is out there. At least in urban fantasy. That might not be a genre of choice for you, though.
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(Anonymous) 2018-12-16 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)You know there are more books than the ones you were forced to read in high school, right? I'm gay as well, and in the past year alone have read great books with gay characters, ace characters, bi characters, trans characters, not to mention characters of color and disabled characters in lead roles/as protagonists. And the stories, while romance has admittedly played a part, have been about heist and piracy and assassins and giant monsters and aliens (I'm a sucker for genre fiction and always will be)
Not all fiction is Catcher in the Rye, thank god
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(And as an aside, I had to read Catcher in the Rye twice for school. I despised it both times. So I appreciate that part of your comment too!)
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(Anonymous) 2018-12-16 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)Edge of the Abyss and its sequel, The Abyss Surrounds Us: Bisexual Chinese monster-trainer gets kidnapped by post-apocalyptic pirates to train a monster for them.
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet: optimistic found-family space opera with actually interesting alien races
Not nearly as well-written as the above but unique enough to be interesting and enjoyable were Mask of Shadows (about a vengeful genderfluid assassin-in-training) and Our Bloody Pearl (about vaguely-steampunk pirates helping an asexual agender bloodthirsty siren with PTSD and a debilitating spinal injury)
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Turns out Fingersmith and Mask of Shadows are at the library walking distance from where I live. And The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is on kindle unlimited. The Abyss ones are also available at a near-ish library. Our bloody pearl is going to be the only difficult one to access.
Thanks so much for the recs! I look forward to trying them out.