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Selling Books with GLBTQ Characters

Why can't you sell your "gay" book into the mainstream? Here are some thoughts on it.

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[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Argh, annoying fallacies about bisexuals time. I keep worrying about getting that one from the other side. Both the hero's partners in the story know what he's like -- in fact they end up conferring over what to buy him for his birthday -- but there's still the possibility that someone will say he deceived the woman when he started seeing her. Even though she was the one who did all the chasing *and* the one that decided they were better as friends after an incident that had nothing to do with any current third party.

My other worry about the mainstream is whether my vague references to the age of consent situation in 1988 and the way Section 28 hung over everyone in education will confuse people who weren't involved in either reform campaign.