LGBTQ Novels/Characters

I am writing a historical romance/LGBTQ fiction novel. My three main characters are gay. George enlists into the Army to fight in WWII and while he is away his boyfriend Harry passes away. Years later George is at an anti-war rally and meets Jack who is drafted to Vietnam. That's the short & sweet of it.

most of my cast are gay or bi men.
why? because I'm lazy and power struggles in a story are easier of people with the same gender. Also I know more of the fanbase of gay romance than lesbian romance.
Also, gay vampires are hot ;)

I'm writing an alphabet soup book: it's YA-SF-LGBT. ;)

The main character is a transgender teen. She's one of 20 defiant* kids who are kidnapped onto an illegal deep-space boot camp.

*Failing to conform to parental expectations. This includes 1 lesbian, 2 gay kids, 3 bi kids, and 3 trans kids. But it also includes kids who fail to conform to gender expectations, who are considered to be "dabbling in Satanism," or who are dating the wrong people.

I wasn't intending it, but the main character if the fanfic series I'm working on has turned out to be gay, or perhaps bi... he's so far shown attraction to two different men, but I don't think he's looking at gender so much as general personality traits, and the ones he's attracted to tend to turn up slightly more frequently in males. Strong, violent, confident... He's pretty much decided he's gay at the moment -- though I've half a mind to throw him in with a tough, badass female character of the aforementioned personality type, just to mess with his head. (I do so love tormenting my characters, hehe.)

My main character is a transsexual lesbian girl. And there is also her future girlfriend. It probably will be more queer characters, I'm not finished with all the planning yet!

My 2009 Nanowrimo novel was a lesvian historical novel.. and is published! _Beloved Pilgrim_ about a woman who chooses to go to the Crusade of 1101 as a man. My profile picture is the cover of the book.

For 2011 I am doing something quite different, an M/M historical romance set in the 1850s-60s on and near the Mississippi River. Frankie deramus, a riverboat gambler, will find his true lovve, then lose him, then bam, the Civil War will make reunion impossible until the end.

Fascinating to ve researching everything from the battles of the Civil War, railroad development, and what terms people used to refer to gay men at the time.

Really looking forward to it. A story based on the main character has been accepted by Wilde oats Magazine www.wildeoats.com for the December issue!

Nan Hawthorne
www.nanhawthorne.com

Mine's probably going to be a fanfic, but it will have QUILTBAG characters.

Actually, even if I end up writing something entirely different than what I think I might, I can guarantee QUILTBAG characters. Because practically everything I write has one, even if I'm the only one who knows that zie is because I never explicitly said it. Yeah. XD

I'm writing lesbian YA paranormal wherein my two OFCs bake cupcakes and face demonic horrors together.

I've been planning for a while. Can't wait until I actually get to write it.

I'm so glad to find this section. The book I'm planning is called "The Ghost of George Boleyn." At least one author has speculated that George Boleyn, the brother of the infamous Anne Boleyn, was gay or bisexual. In my story, he is gay and develops a relationship with Nick, an American tourist who can see him. Nick is deeply unhappy with his current relationship and appreciates the comfort and sympathy he receives from George. But does George truly love Nick as he claims, or is he simply trying to find a way to steal Nick's body so that he can resume the life that was so brutally snatched away from him? And will Nick's lover, Adrian, get his head out of the sand in time to realize that his lover is serious danger?

(Good questions, by the way. I haven't decided either of them yet.) It will be fun to figure things out as I go along...I think.

I'm writing a sci-fi queer romance this year. In the past i've written YA lesbian romance so this is different for me... slightly... Almost all of my characters are in some way same sex attracted, some more so than others. There is time travel in my story which involves a post apocalyptic society where being gay is the norm rather than the exception as a matter of survival.

I'm writing an urban fantasy YA (ish) novel. The main character is a teenager and he is just starting to experiment with romance and sexuality. He is bisexual, or probably pansexual to be more accurate. He has a brief fling with a girl, and when that doesn't work out, he starts a relationship with a boy. The fantasy culture I created does not view sexuality as a sociopolitical standing, it's just a normal part of your identity, so I'm going to explore how coming of age would be different if any type of sexuality was considered acceptable. It's a more minor part of the plot, but I still consider it important to the "message."

I have NO IDEA where I'm going with my novel...it started off as a joke, but then the idea stuck: THE WERE-DYKE RIDES AT MIDNIGHT. I fully admit to writing it just so I can use that title.

Basically you've got MC Justine Heck, a homeless lesbian werewolf with innate Gaydar: the ability to tell if a queer person within 100 miles is in trouble and the ability to pinpoint their location and track them there. After high school she moves several hundred miles away from home to Seattle to escape her parents (who are more concerned about the "lesbian" part than the "werewolf" one) and takes up a day job as a dishwasher.

And then she becomes a superhero.

She uses her Gaydar to find queer people who need help, uses the Dykemobile ('82 Volvo station wagon and where she sleeps at night) to get around, and if need be she administers justice with her Gay Bar (a crowbar painted in rainbow colors, adorned with sparkles and the word GAY in black block letters.) All goes well for seven years or so, and then through a hilarious turn of events that aren't so hilarious at all she gets roped into being the caretaker for a homeless gay teen named Xandra.

AND THEN PLOT STUFF I HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF YET HAPPENS :|

My two MCs for this year are gay. One's a wayward pirate sorcerer whose mind is stuck in the gutter, if you catch my drift and the other is a snobby prince. I think they're going to fall in love sometime during the book, or might leave that out til later.

My MC considers himself to be bi though I call it more along the lines of gender blindness. He doesn't see the gender of the person, he sees their spirits/souls and that attracts him first. He's a seer/sorcerer and to him bodies are just another layer of clothing.

So, I've got four important characters who are LGBT. The novel itself, though, has got next to nothing to do with LGBT themes.

Those are the books I long to read!

Mine will have a lesbian character at the forefront. It's just a case of plucking an idea from the ever-expanding shelf. Failed miserably last year but triumphed in 2009 so who knows what 2011 holds?

Pretty much everything that I write picks up various LGBTQ themes just because of who I am (bisexual transgender man). This year is no exception, whether I write the novel that I am planning on or my backup novel.

The novel that I'm planning on writing is SF, set a few centuries in the future, and sexuality/gender stuff has mostly stopped being an issue. It's not really a big deal in the story itself that several of the central characters are somewhere in the not-straight part of the sexuality spectrum. I have been sort of trying to figure out how to work a trans character, at least in passing into this story, but it's not entirely cooperating because in the setting, it is such a non-issue that, well, it's a non-issue... I could have trans characters that I wouldn't even know where trans because it just wouldn't come up...


If I go with my fall back (which is one of the sequels to the fantasy novel I wrote last year), my three central characters will be a young (very powerful) shaman who is gay and in a relationship with a channel who also helped with putting the central character of the first novel on the throne who is probably bisexual, and their best friend who is an aesexual and pretty much aegender warrior dedicated to some of the gods in this universe. Basically, this novel in the sequence focuses on the queerest characters from the first novel. :)

Adrien Etienne

My main character is a trans*woman and the antagonist is a very androgynous male who doesn't really fall to the gender binary. But the LGBTQAI-themes aren't that present in other ways.

I'm currently stuck between two plots (one high fantasy, the other modern supernatural/satire), but both feature gay characters- either has the main character, or the main character's brother. I'm currently leaning towards the supernatural/satire one, which features a demon who buys souls for the devil, and happens to be gay himself. I don't want to say too much and jinx myself, but there's a giant heaping of humor on the subject matter itself. Basically the selling and buying of souls has a very capitalistic twist on it.

I was wondering if any writers here have any good creative writing book, sites, et cetera that are pertinent for LGBT writers?

Though my MC is not queer, one of her friends is a transman and closeted; he, sadly, ends up killing himself.