Gay Male Protagonist
The gay male protagonist. Bane of mainstream literature. But things are better now™. *sigh* LGBT literature is still very much- actually hold that thought. The existence of that term alone shows the problem: that LGBT literature is a separate thing from straight literature. We rarely have fantasy, mystery or sci-fi whose main character happens to be gay, we have gay fiction which happens to have a fantasy, mystery or sci-fi setting, rarely. Mostly it's just romance. Written by women. *sigh* It's
I just want to point out that there doesn’t have a to be a specific plot reason for a character to have a certain sexuality. People aren’t gay because something happened in their life, people are gay because that’s just them. So while there may not be a “reason” for a character to be gay, there’s no reason for them not to be either.
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