Blog Writing Queer Characters LRR, March 10, 2020February 8, 2025 By Samuel Bastille Picture yourself reading a fantastic love story between two people — queer people — and really enjoying it. The story is rich, the characters are complex and you’re really enjoying yourself! Now, as you turn to the next page, imagine you stumble upon something a little less… Continue Reading
Ten Fantastic Examples of Queer Person-of-Color Literature LRR, February 12, 2014February 8, 2025 In my experience as a student of the public school system, English literature departments seldom offer texts in the curriculum that deviate from a white, middle-to-upper class, Eurocentric (and very often male) voice. Students like me are taught authors like Shakespeare and Dickens, Steinbeck and Fitzgerald and Faulkner. The poets… Continue Reading