Lgbtq short

The Finest LGBTQ+ Short Stories

Over the past fifteen years or so, LGBTQ+ and gay fiction has veritably exploded — what we might call a long-overdue reckoning after many years of literary scarcity. Because while it’s true that Queer creators have long been part of the literary scene (Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Patricia Highsmith, Truman Capote, and countless more), it’s only recently that they’ve been able to acknowledge their identities without fear of persecution and even more recently that their stories have grow accepted fare for mainstream fiction.

Fortunately, times have very much changed. Trailblazing authors like David Levithan and Sarah Waters proved that readers were hungry for LGBTQ+ fiction and inclusion, and since the first aughties, this trend has only been on the rise. Bestselling novels enjoy Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda and The Miseducation of Cameron Post have been turned into blockbuster films, and just about every YA intermediary out there has “own-voices LGBTQ+ stories” on their manuscript wish list.

However, don’t make the mistake of thinking there’s anything proximate to a surplus of these stories! Not only do m

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