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I've always enjoyed novels with gay male characters. I admire the women and men who write homoerotic fiction because it mostly is a labor of love done without expectation of reward. We often don't expect to get published, let alone find an audience. Many of us are self-published, and write for the love of writing, and how can you not admire that? Why homoerotic fiction? Why are some heterosexual women like me fans of fiction about gay men? I can only speak for myself here at Obsidianbookshelf.com as I put some percentages on it: Fifty-percent: I find homoerotic fiction fun to read. Straight guys often fantasize about two women together, so why shouldn't straight gals fantasize about two men together? Thirty percent: Homoerotic fiction gives me an alternative to reading about male-female relationships. The fiction of love, sex, and desire is deeply compelling. But when it involves men and women, I find a lot of it tedious, depending upon how pronounced the battle of the sexes is. Plus (and I hesitate to admit this, but ...) reading about women, and especially writing about women, bores me: after all, I am one, so where's the mystery? Twenty percent: the outsider quality that comes with some gay male fiction fascinates me. Historically, gay men have been a persecuted minority outside of mainstream society. This brings out tensions, viewpoints, and dangers that don't exist in traditional fiction about the relationships between men and women. |
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