Outer Alliance Pride Day

[filkertom]

"As a member of the Outer Alliance, I advocate for queer speculative fiction and those who create, publish and support it, whatever their sexual orientation and gender identity. I make sure this is reflected in my actions and my work."

As far as "work", I've got a few songs along the way that count, but the most prominent, I think, is "Two Guys Kissin' (Ruined My Life)".

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[lizziecrowe.livejournal.com]

As a Slash fanfiction writer, I applaud this! And that song is hysterical, for the record.

[iambickilometer.livejournal.com]

I quite enjoyed that song. Read: I could not stop laughing. Top form.

[zellion.livejournal.com]

I've found this to be an interesting site.

http://www.glbtfantasy.com/?section=reviewer&sub=finder

You'll note the standard people are on there, Tanya Huff, Jacqueline Carey, Mercedes Lackey, and Diane Duane. But there are a lot of other books I've never heard of on there. Always looking for more good sf to read.

On that thought, I hope Beth Hilgartner actually finishes the third book in her Bharaghlaf cycle at some point. "An Ambush of Tigers" has been "forthcoming" for the last 5 years or more. (and perhaps we can all come up with a better name for the series, to one I can pronounce...)

[hiddenriver.livejournal.com]

I read Elizabeth A. Lynn's "Chronicles of Tornor" in the mid-80's. I had a number of gay and lesbian friends and these were the first "mainstream" novels I read that treated gay/lesbian relationships as I knew them to be: normal, loving relationships, no more, no less. There was no "after school special" treatment - this was simply a fantasy world without any hang-ups about sexual orientation. Imagine that!

These books set the stage for so many others.

Free Story

[tcgtrf.livejournal.com]

This is a great idea and I'm sorry I hadn't heard about it soon enough to contribute today.

Tell you what I'll do to help celebrate....

I'll send a free .pdf of my gay werewolf short-story, "Deer Hunting with the Prey," to the first ten people who send me a request at trumpinski.books@gmail.com.

Tom Trumpinski

[nightmarewriter.livejournal.com]

When I was in high school, I was profoundly influenced by two books that forever broke my viewing of gender as binary. The first one is Ursula LeGuin's "Lefthand of Darkness", and the second is Marion Zimmer Bradley's "World Wreckers".

In each, a human encounters an alien who is a hermaphrodite, and in the second instance, has a relationship with them and reproduces, even though the male (and putatively straight) human mostly views the alien as also male. I found the protagonist's wrestling with his internal same-sex taboos gripping. Gender as I understood it never seemed quite the same after that.

Looking them up, I've found that World Wreckers has terrible reviews. It's not the best written book, being fairly early in MZB's career, but it wasn't THAT bad. =(

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Thanks, have also posted.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner. Swashbuckling, bitchy drawing room combat -- and there is no distinction made between heterosex and same-sex pairings in either the "Dangerous Liaisons"-style bedroom intrigues of the aristos, or in the scruffy life in the slums.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

My own work? Aside from the slash, you mean?

Well, there's Brother Andrew, the gay nun who works with Mother Theresa in Hell. ("The Little Sisters of Hell" appeared in Space and Time long before Teresa's actual death.)

[warinbear.livejournal.com]

I apologize in advance if this comes across as using your journal to promote someone else's work. I'm not tooting my own horn, though.

My sister has written what she refers to as the world's first lesbian fairytale musical (http://warinbear.livejournal.com/46696.html), which will be going on stage later this month (http://www.somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville/schedule/events.php).

I haven't heard 'Two Guys' yet -- free time? Me? Hah! -- but I was also quite fond of (and amused by) 'Sir Rupert The Swishy.'