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Do gay protagonists exist? ( Web Comics and Novels AND MUSIC help )
Drswords
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I've been on a hunt for novels and web comics with gay lead characters. I know thats probably a pretty stupid thing to look for.
Everywhere else ive asked has brought up the question "Why do you care if the protagonist is gay?" And honestly i guess i shouldn't. But i've only come across 2 web comics and one novel trilogy with a gay lead character.
So, if its not an incredibly stupid question to ask....
Do you know of any novels or web comics with lead characters who are gay males?
( All i know of is Khaos Komic by Tab Klimpton, Honeydew Syndrome which is already completed, and the novels Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise, and Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey. )
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Im also looking for GLBT themed music. I know there are a lot of songs ambiguous enough to work for all sexualities... but i for once would like to hear a song about love between two gay men.
Everywhere else ive asked has brought up the question "Why do you care if the protagonist is gay?" And honestly i guess i shouldn't. But i've only come across 2 web comics and one novel trilogy with a gay lead character.
So, if its not an incredibly stupid question to ask....
Do you know of any novels or web comics with lead characters who are gay males?
( All i know of is Khaos Komic by Tab Klimpton, Honeydew Syndrome which is already completed, and the novels Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise, and Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey. )
EDIT:
Im also looking for GLBT themed music. I know there are a lot of songs ambiguous enough to work for all sexualities... but i for once would like to hear a song about love between two gay men.
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Thats where ive run into a major snag. I live in West Texas for one. And for two, the only bookshop wth a GLBT section ( Hastings ) only carries self help books and romance novels. Frankly im not looking for romantic fluff and smut.
I must say im very interested in this Nightrunner series. It sounds much like the Last Herald Mage Trilogy, where the character happens to be gay, but that isnt the central plot point.
There was Boy Meets Boy that was succeeded by Friendly Hostility but both are done and pretty old.
Christopher Rice (Anne Rice's son) has a number of books that tend to be featuring gay leads. I've only read A Density of Souls, but it was pretty good. The sequel to Wicked, Son of a Witch features a character which happens to be gay.
There are also an endless number of "Coming Out" novels if you want something that's a little more about actually being gay. There was one I read about high-school football players that I can't remember now but googling "gay football novel" has shown me that there are many such stories.
John Crowley's Beasts also has a gay protagonist, IIRC.
Can't think of much else.
(Edit: Oh, sorry you said gay MALES.)
(Double Edit: Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley is pretty gay.)
Honestly im looking for anything that isnt a romance novel or erotica book.
Its really despicable that Hastings doesnt carry anything but pretty heavy handed smut, or really cheesy romance novels. Also their selection is about 9/10ths lesbian 1/10th gay male.
Ill look into Christopher Rice. Ill also look at the webcomics.
I went ahead and orderd the Nightrunner series. Sounds fantastic.
Im also looking at getting Sacrament.
I mean honeslty i have no problem with coming out stories and the like, its just the whole coming out thing gets depressing and old.
Something i never can seem to find is a book about a gay man's daily life. Not the coming out or anytbing. Just like a "Day in the life of" kinda book. I love those kind of stories, and i have yet to find one with a gay character.
Something ive been repeatedly told over and over by so called friends, and people ive sought advice from elsewhere, is that i shouldnt be bothered by straight protagonists. And im not per se... but i cant relate to straight romantic relationships AT all. I dont understand or have anything in common with the whole seductive lady thing. I mean i appreciate the relationships in books like The Dresden Files, but i dont relate to it.
And its probably pretty asinine that i need to have a gay characrter to relate to, but i grew up without any gay role models whatsoever. The first time i saw a gay character on tv was Will and Grace, and that was horrible. I didnt discover Queer As Folk until i was in my twenties, and even it is sorta.... extreme. Im not a club junkie, and i dont go around looking for guys to "screw" so i dont realy understand the mindsets of the characters.
I guess im rambling.
Sorry. I mean i dont been to be excluding... its just that im not a lesbian... Sorry... I know that kinda comes off assholish, and i know the whole GLBT thing is about community or whatever, but i dont live in a community. I dont have any gay friends anymore, and i dont know any lesbians.. so i dont quite get the whole "we are a community" thing. Maybe if i lived in san fransicso.
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Is there a university in your town with a GLBT centre? They may have a library for you to borrow from or be able to recommend somewhere to get gay fiction that's not just grocery store level smut.
Well there were no GLBT groups or anything at Angelo State when i went. Dont know if that has changed.
I acutally dont know of a GLBT anything in town. No local PFLAG chapter, no Gay and Lesbian Alliance. Nothing.
I havent actually looked at the Public Library in a long time, but seeing as its West Texas, i doubt they would carry many books with Gay leads.
it has homosexuality and bisexuality in it, and exploring finding out how the characters actually feel without it being a smutty romance novel.
also, it is completely normal to want more protagonists you can relate to in romantic matters. the problem i have run across with gay males in fantasy type novels is that the writer very often makes them so damn tragic. dead lover type of thing. why can't there be more books where the lead/important characters just like men? doesn't have to be a focus, a problem or a driving force.
hopefully we'll see more novels like that published in the future.
Yea, as much as i enjoyed The Last Herald Mage Trilogy, it was extremely tragic. I cried probably twice during each novel. ( that makes me sound like such a pansy )
Oh man. Just reading the description for this... This sounds like a real winner! ^_^
Im actually overjoyed right now. Im finding so many good books thanks to all of you!
It's seriously one of my favorite books of all time--you'll love it.
Is Wonder Boys the novel the movie is based off of? Cause i love that movie. ( Its where i knew Tobey Maguire from ... )
Sarah Dreyer writes a lot of mediocre detective-type novels
the main character's name is Stoner Mctavish if you want to even try to understand that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Dreher
Yes, it is!
Kavalier and Clay is one of my all time favorites, and definitely deserving of the Pulitzer. Most definitely worth a read!
Well for my needs.. yes. Feel free to post any GLBT novels you reccomend here though. I mean, why not help everyone while helping me, ya know?
I just started reading this (only read one Chabon book before)...
It. is. AWESOME.
Renee Montoya/The Question and Kate Kane/Batwoman are both some of the main characters in the 52 comic series, and in The Question: Five Books of Blood and Final Crisis: Revelations
edit: whoops those are girls not boys, sorry
Yeah, I think just about any geek that is kind of literary would enjoy this.
I'm scouring my memory for any other books I've read with a gay male protagonist that wasn't "just gay fiction" but I'm coming up a blank. S'too bad, I loved the first three Nightrunner books so hard, and I'd love to see that done in other genres. Just "hey, so the main character's gay, now let's get on with the story."
there are lots of books with gay protagonists.
Jeannette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (lesbian in England's bible belt)
Allison Bechdel, Dykes to Watch Out For (a comic strip collected into books; I found it addictive)
Everything by Samuel Delany (Deviant Age sci fi)
William S. Burroughs stuff
Edmund White stuff
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Ever.
The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan (not that great a book though)
The Last Rune series by Mark Anthony
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Also a fine novel generally.
Compared to his Science Fiction work I was disappointed with his first work of Fantasy.