LGBT Wrimos!

(Forgive me if I glossed over a thread for you guys. If I did, please point me in the right direction!)

Any openly queer writers out there? Anybody writing an LGBTQ-interest novel? Wanna discuss good queer-friendly publishers?

I'm FTM Trans, highly genderqueer, pansexual, polyfidelitous. (which is my way of saying, no matter what flavor of queer you bring to the table, I'm the last person who'd ever judge you!) My novel is occult/spiritual fantasy. While not the central focus of the story, a major cornerstone of the plot is a hijra/two-spirit sort of tribe, and the main character is gay, but that is of little consequence to the plot.

what are your life experiences and interests adding to your novel?

Hi, I'm Rachelle. This is my first Nano, though I've wanted to participate for years. I'm gay (I use that as my catch-all adjective, like 'queer' is what most people use), pretty much open about myself. I've written one novel that's lesbian-themed, and I've been working on a second one. My Nano story isn't going to be queer-themed. I have wanted to write a YA book about an FTM transman who starts his transition during his junior year of college at an all-female college (which, actually, after this idea came to me, one of my friends from the single-sex college I went to did begin his transition because he wanted to graduate as male), but I haven't had time to do the research.

I'm Jezaret. I'm bisexual and bigender and I've been kicking around the idea of (one day) writing a book with a bigender protagonist since the term isn't too widely known - that I've seen at least.

LGBT themes seem to find their way into most of my work, even if it's just in the background.

I'm Amber, gender-non-committal and into girls. What's up? My novel is about the apocalypse and girls who fall in love over the phone.

I'm Rizy and I'm pansexual, little bit genderqueer and polyamourous, and I'm writing about lesbians, vampires, and werewolves.

I'm Cate. Plain old boring girl who's into girls... or lesbian. I'm writing a time-travelling sci-fi with a couple of lesbian characters... or otherwise queer and a gay male couple in it. The future is a bit post apocalyptic and robots are ruling the world and have outlawed heterosexuality

Queer teen writer, will mainly be hanging out in the Teen LGBTQ etc thread (The Rainbow Coven), but came over here to say hi, and might pop in and out over the year!

Name's Kit, and I'm queer as hell, when it comes to both gender and sexuality! Assigned female at birth, attracted to women, gender kind of wobbles between varying degrees of female and male. I also have polyamorous tendencies. ;)

I love playing with this sort of thing with my fiction... I always have at least a couple characters that aren't heterosexual, and I want to eventually write some trans* characters, too. This year I'm probably going to be doing some form of fanfiction (Batman, centered on his Rogues Gallery) which will undoubtedly include at least mention of male/female, male/male, and female/female relationships. All of them. B)

Rin here! FAAB, twin-spirit (or bigendered; I'm a bit iffy on the terms), and something of a five on the Kinsey. Lovely to see so many queers hanging out here!

I have to remind myself to include heteros in my writing lately, X3 This year I'm probably going to be writing about Greek gods coming down to earth and living as mortals (thank gods for the adopt-a-plot thread!) and it's told from Artemis' point of view- so lesbians galore! And I've always been convinced Apollo was bi and a Drag Queen, so that'll be in there at some point.

Hi. I'm Sam, Genderfluid, panromantic asexual. I'm writing a novel where both my MMC's are gay, and in a strange sort of open relationship. It's Erotic Lit Fic.

Evening everyone! I'm Matt, 23, from the midwest and I'm an openly gay man :3

This is my first official Wrimo, though I knew about it years ago when I bought Baty's book after High School- I've completed two stories with varying success in the 30-day format, so now I'm going to try and make it official. I've been on the fence about my story/genre these past few days, and as of now I'm going to be writing an urban fantasy young adult piece this year (emphasis on the adult part- post High School chars) with four chars, one of whom is gay and in the closet.

Hi everyone. I'm a bi girl, though my brain generally thinks I'm male. Just to complicate matters I'm married to a - very understanding - het guy, so it pretty much puts me in no-mans-land as far as socialising goes. If anyone still wants to talk to me please feel free. It can get pretty lonely out here...

As far as NaNo goes, my ideas are pretty sketchy at the moment. I've no idea whether my two MC's are going to be just friends or romantically involved at this point though, so we'll see how it turns out.

Hello.

Another "boring" lesbian here. And yes, I think I really am pretty boring. :-)

My novel will be about vampires....definitely with lesbian protagonists. Not sure what else. I can't decide whether I want to lay it out pre-Nano....or if I want to write by the seat of my pants starting the 1st.

I'm straight but my characters aren't. My stories aren't really LGBTQ etc though - they just have characters that are in them. My detectives I am writing this time are in a civil partnership and kind of on honeymoon.

I'm a biromantic asexual woman and my characters are a naive, awkward young man and a self-medicating, alcoholic, vampire hunter who are stuck on a cruise ship that's slowly be consumed by vampires. And yes, these two characters end up falling in love - or at least become really attached and dependent - during the course of this story.

It's really not heavy on the romance though; while there's a few scenes that are more tender and a sexual scene early in the story, this definitely falls into the horror genre. Which is why I don't think it's appropriate for either Storm Moon Press or Torquere Press and those were the two I was really eyeballing as for as publication goes.

Y'all are awesome! Glad to see so much diversity here. I'm so excited for November and all the awesome stuff y'all are going to churn out.

Let's not get into gender, but I am a panromantic possibly-asexual (possibly just really picky and easily bored) person. I have a subtextual gay romance in my novel this year, though it'll never be overtly stated. It's like...I always read these books where I see how two men or women could theoretically be romantically involved and always wondered if it was intentional. Well for me, all that subtext will have been completely intentional. :)

I'm a genderqueer biromantic homosexual female reporting, hello hello! My my, it's lovely to see all these radiant shades of a rainbow here :)

My story will be a horror story with a protagonist who happens to be MtF, and an antagonist who is pretty much an androgyn or even genderqueer male. LGBTQAI-issues won't be so much on the surface, but I just wanted some other LGBTQA-representation than just L, G and B in my novel. There'll be the G-part, most likely, because... I just like me some manlovin'.

Not too many people here yet. Where is everyone? :)

Hiya. I'm .. uh .. a transmasculine genderqueer homoromantic (flexible) asexual. I usually just say "gay man" to keep it simple, though.

I haven't decided exactly HOW queer my novel this year will be, but so far I know that there will be some girl-girl lovings and messing with gender roles.

I'm 23 and FtM, non-op for medical reasons and married to a non-op MtF. I write books about gay male couples, although not always, and not this year. Very pleased to meet other people who don't fit in/have found themselves saddled with a necessarily complicated approach to these categories!