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So. The Lambda awards thing. I’m sure I had some questions to rant about, but then I texted
lady_krysis a lot and my steam went away. Something about how I can totally get needing to have a gay literature award for gay writers, but they really changed the rules at absolutely the last moment, from what I understand, and that kind of short notice change must be incredibly frustrating. Mixed in with that is both the assumption that the gay fiction straight people write isn’t good enough, and also that the queer writers who write gay literature apparently need help to win by excluding other writers, regardless of orientation.
And I fully admit that I’m one of the majority in fandom, a white chick, etcetera, etcetera, but I find it extraordinarily offensive for a straight woman to be told to sit in her corner with all the other straight women that write gay romance. Then again, I really don’t identify as straight or gay, and I’m celibate anyway, so I kind of wonder if I even get a side in this argument.
The way I see it, gay romance is gay romance, and like every genre, most of it sucks, regardless of the orientation of the writer. I'm probably missing the point anyway and would like to be educated on this. What does everyone else think about it?
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And I fully admit that I’m one of the majority in fandom, a white chick, etcetera, etcetera, but I find it extraordinarily offensive for a straight woman to be told to sit in her corner with all the other straight women that write gay romance. Then again, I really don’t identify as straight or gay, and I’m celibate anyway, so I kind of wonder if I even get a side in this argument.
The way I see it, gay romance is gay romance, and like every genre, most of it sucks, regardless of the orientation of the writer. I'm probably missing the point anyway and would like to be educated on this. What does everyone else think about it?