ext_6835 ([identity profile] tharain.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] alg 2006-03-29 12:27 am (UTC)

Well, in my book, "queer lit" is anything with queer characters.

I'm sorry to cut in on another thread, but this is perhaps a topic I should put up on my LJ (exceptin' I don't have as many writers reading as you do).

What would constitute "Queer Lit"? I tend to think of it as 'Twinkie Lit', where every guy's a 10 and it's all about the endless white party.

I said to a friend who's a writer that I didn't think my thing would be picked up (assuming it's any good) by either mainstream houses or the LBGT houses: not queer enough for the latter (Gay main characters, but it isn't about being gay), and too queer for the former(gay main characters; not much het stuff).

This is part of the reason I'd asked the Genre Question in your posts. Too queer/not queer enough, some fantasy elements (people having abilities they normally don't have)/not enough fantasy (no elves). Based in this world. It's kinda...weird.

But the thing that's always concerned me most: is this queer lit? is it not? what defines that?

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