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[Grack21]

Speaking of the never ending thread, finally broke down and picked up The Steel Remains. We'll see how that goes,

Northstar is always interesting. You can always immediately tell an authors stance on the whole "gay issue" by how he's written. And I think he only died once.

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You can always immediately tell an authors stance on the whole "gay issue" by how he's written.

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[Grack21]

I mean, you can tell how the author of any comic that has Northstar in feels about gays/gay marriage by the way iin which said writer writes Northstar.

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Oh, I know what you meant, figured there'd be some examples. Sci is greedy like that.

[Grack21]

Well at one point he was retconned to actually be a "fairy". Other examples would require me to look through old marvel comics.

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Grack21, on 24 May 2012 - 03:58 PM, said:

And I think he only died once.

That must be fewer deaths than average!

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Queering SFF - Tiptree aka Alice Sheldon

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Tiptree/Sheldon won every major genre award, some more than once; she is now being inducted, as of 2012, into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. However, the discussion of Tiptree/Sheldon as a queer writer is often glossed over—I was, until reading a letter from her that Joanna Russ reprinted in The Country You Have Never Seen, unaware of her sexuality.

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On a cold October 7th, 1998, just after midnight, in the area of Sherman Hills, east of Laramie, Wyoming, a twenty-one-year-old first-year political sciences student named Matthew Shepard was bound to a split-rail fence, beaten and burned, stripped, pistol-whipped and left for dead. Eighteen hours later, at 6:22 p.m. on Snowy Mountain View Road, a passing cyclist noticed what he, at first, assumed to be a scarecrow. Another scarecrow, a real scarecrow, was later paraded through the streets by students of Colorado State University, on a homecoming float, with a sign hung round its neck saying, I’m gay, and the words, Up My Ass, painted on the back of its shirt, a few miles from the bed in Poudre Valley Hospital where She pard died, on October 12th at 12:53 a.m., never having regained consciousness. On the website www.godhatesfags.com, Reverend Fred Phelps counts the days of Matthew Shepard’s eternity in Hell, beneath an animation of his face among the flames.

Duncan, Hal (2011-08-11). Vellum (The Book of All Hours) (pp. 185-186). Macmillan Publishers UK. Kindle Edition.

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Glitterwolf Magazine looking for submissions, specifically from LGBT individuals:

http://glitterwolfma...lr.com/issuetwo

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TNG Interview: Hal Duncan

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....The sequence is a wild ride through time and alternative universes, weaving Greek and Sumerian mythology with political concerns with stylistic brio that references William Burroughs and James Joyce.

It is also an unabashedly queer book, addressing many of the queer subtexts of those myths.  In addition to being a novelist/short-storywriter, Duncan is also a blogger who address everything from literature to music to politics in an entertaining, occasionally outrageous way.  As you can see below, Duncan is a verbose, charming and delightfully profane subject to interview.

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....the specifics don’t matter, as long as the system of moral dicta demands that you enforce, propagate and defend the system, insists that this is a moral duty. All it takes is one neurotic control freak with an irrational disgust at some arbitrary marker of deviance, and they have an imperative to enforce, propagate and defend this “moral” judgement. They get a reward of self-righteous pride for doing so.

Edited by sciborg2, 25 September 2012 - 12:04 PM.

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Kalbear, on 02 January 2012 - 02:32 AM, said:

I guess...Buffy wasn't exactly bad about LGBT stuff, but it's not something I would say 'go see this for LGBT characters because they're awesome'. I'd do that for something like the Wire, but not Buffy.

I think Whedon did a terrible job with LGBT stuff. Willow is ostensibly straight until she suddenly becomes a lipstick lesbian, which seems to be all Whedon can envision. In fact, female homosexuality is approached far, far more openly than male homosexuality, but then I guess that was the time. Back in the 90s you couldn't swing a rainbow flag without hitting a television lesbian, but TV gay men were all hiding or something.

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Tanith Lee: Channeling Queer Authors (From 2010 so a bit outdated)

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Lee has featured gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters throughout all of her fiction—particularly in her now reissued classic fantasy Flat Earth series, which was partially influenced by Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales. (The first volume, Night’s Master (Taleka) is out; the second volume, Death’s Master, will be out at year’s end).