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2017 LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge
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dalex
Posted 2017-03-05 7:43 PM (#15418 - in reply to #15417)
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Jain
Posted 2017-04-23 2:09 PM (#15597 - in reply to #14880)
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Here are some more names for your list. In the interests of not spending all day on this post, I'm not documenting my sources, but all info was taken from author bios, Wikipedia, authors' personal websites or blogs, and interviews. Let me know if you have questions/concerns about the presence of any name(s), and I'll dig up the relevant links.

Lisa A. Barnett
Susan Jane Bigelow
William S. Burroughs
Michael Chabon
Becky Chambers
Arthur C. Clarke
Douglas Clegg
Bruce Coville
Sarah Diemer
Thomas M. Disch
Candas Jane Dorsey
Hal Duncan
Jane Fletcher
E. M. Forster (He wrote a few SFF short stories.)
David Gerrold
Ginn Hale
Kameron Hurley
Tove Jansson
Roz Kaveney
Jacqueline Koyanagi
Larissa Lai
Yoon Ha Lee
Elizabeth A. Lynn
Seanan McGuire
Gregory Maguire
Laurie J. Marks
Susan R. Matthews
Mark Merlis
Mary Anne Mohanraj
Sunny Moraine
Patrick Ness
Ricardo Pinto
Rachel Pollack
Christopher Rice
Lev A. C. Rosen
Joanna Russ
Lawrence Schimel
William Sleator
Charles Stross
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Virginia Woolf
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Jain
Posted 2017-04-23 2:21 PM (#15598 - in reply to #14880)
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Also, could someone please share sources for N. K. Jemisin and Catherynne M. Valente? I've heard rumors regarding both of them, but despite searching diligently on my own, I haven't been able to find official confirmation anywhere that they're LGBTQ.
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Rhondak101
Posted 2017-05-01 3:19 PM (#15647 - in reply to #15339)
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Sable Aradia - 2017-02-20 2:46 PM Okay, here's the list so far: https://dianemorrison.wordpress.com/diversity-in-sff/

 You can add Lisa A. Barnett to your list (per her wiki article)

 Also Catherynne M. Valente's name is misspelled on your list.

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Sable Aradia
Posted 2017-05-05 10:15 PM (#15675 - in reply to #15417)
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Weesam - 2017-03-05 3:22 PM

Yoon Ha Lee is a Trans Man. Easy enough to find articles where he talks about being trans.


Perfect Weesam, thanks!
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Sable Aradia
Posted 2017-05-06 1:54 AM (#15676 - in reply to #15597)
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Jain - 2017-04-23 12:09 PM

Here are some more names for your list. In the interests of not spending all day on this post, I'm not documenting my sources, but all info was taken from author bios, Wikipedia, authors' personal websites or blogs, and interviews. Let me know if you have questions/concerns about the presence of any name(s), and I'll dig up the relevant links.

Lisa A. Barnett
Susan Jane Bigelow
William S. Burroughs
Michael Chabon
Becky Chambers
Arthur C. Clarke
Douglas Clegg
Bruce Coville
Sarah Diemer
Thomas M. Disch
Candas Jane Dorsey
Hal Duncan
Jane Fletcher
E. M. Forster (He wrote a few SFF short stories.)
David Gerrold
Ginn Hale
Kameron Hurley
Tove Jansson
Roz Kaveney
Jacqueline Koyanagi
Larissa Lai
Yoon Ha Lee
Elizabeth A. Lynn
Seanan McGuire
Gregory Maguire
Laurie J. Marks
Susan R. Matthews
Mark Merlis
Mary Anne Mohanraj
Sunny Moraine
Patrick Ness
Ricardo Pinto
Rachel Pollack
Christopher Rice
Lev A. C. Rosen
Joanna Russ
Lawrence Schimel
William Sleator
Charles Stross
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Virginia Woolf


I appreciate your desire not to want to spend all day on the post, but if you don't document, that means I have to. Which I'm fine with, but it's going to take time. Don't expect these updates to appear any time soon, is all I'm saying. But thank you for pointing me in the right direction!
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Sable Aradia
Posted 2017-05-06 1:58 AM (#15677 - in reply to #15598)
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Jain - 2017-04-23 12:21 PM

Also, could someone please share sources for N. K. Jemisin and Catherynne M. Valente? I've heard rumors regarding both of them, but despite searching diligently on my own, I haven't been able to find official confirmation anywhere that they're LGBTQ.


Hi there! Are they both on my list already? If so, the links I have included all take you to a website that specifically mentions a piece of information that, for the purposes of anyone doing a little casual research to the best of their ability (and not an academic documentation for a thesis,) proves their membership in our colourful community. Some take you to personal websites, some to Wikipedia entries mentioning personal details, and so forth.
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Sable Aradia
Posted 2017-05-06 2:05 AM (#15678 - in reply to #15647)
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Rhondak101 - 2017-05-01 1:19 PM

Sable Aradia - 2017-02-20 2:46 PM Okay, here's the list so far: https://dianemorrison.wordpress.com/diversity-in-sff/

You can add Lisa A. Barnett to your list (per her wiki article)

Also Catherynne M. Valente's name is misspelled on your list.



Thanks! Updating!
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Sable Aradia
Posted 2017-05-06 2:40 AM (#15679 - in reply to #14880)
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Added: Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Chabon, Lisa A. Barnett, David Gerrold, Yoon Ha Lee, Elizabeth A. Lynn, Gregory Maguire, Laurie J. Marks, Ricardo Pinto, Charles Stross, and Viriginia Woolf, largely because those names stood out to me (because I've either read something they've written or they're on my TBR list). Will continue to work at this as I can! Thanks to everyone who's helped so far! Please keep 'em coming! (I must admit, I'm pretty delighted to be counting Arthur C. Clarke in our number!)
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Jain
Posted 2017-05-06 9:21 AM (#15686 - in reply to #14880)
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Sable Aradia - 2017-05-06 2:58 AM

If so, the links I have included all take you to a website that specifically mentions a piece of information that, for the purposes of anyone doing a little casual research to the best of their ability (and not an academic documentation for a thesis,) proves their membership in our colourful community.


I read both of the Wikipedia articles you linked to, and unless I'm missing something, neither of them says anything about Jemisin's or Valente's sexuality. Both of those authors have written (award-winning) works featuring LGBT characters, but I'm not seeing any indication that they're LGBT themselves.

Edited by Jain 2017-05-06 9:28 AM
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dalex
Posted 2017-09-06 3:31 AM (#16246 - in reply to #14880)
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I have completed the LGBTQ challenge!  Here are the books I read, including my rating and how the book qualifies for the challenge.

·         The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden 5 (character)

·         City of Circles by Jess Richards 5 (author)

·         Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan 5 (character)

·         The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison 4 (character)

·         The Red Tree by Caitlin Kiernan 4 (character, maybe author)

·         Los Nefilim by T. Frohock 4 (character)

·         The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan 3 (character)

·         Dreams of Shreds & Tatters by Amanda Downum 3 (character)

·         The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne 3 (character)

·         Smoketown by Tenea Johnson 3 (character, maybe author)

·         The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan 3 (author)

·         Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi 2 (character)

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spoltz
Posted 2017-09-11 6:20 PM (#16257 - in reply to #14880)
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Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA		Nice list dalex! Sorry to hear the Oyeyemi book was only 2 stars. I really like her work, but I haven't read Opposite House yet.
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Sable Aradia
Posted 2017-10-03 12:25 PM (#16326 - in reply to #14880)
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I am way behind on my reading challenges due to a hard year of writing like a crazy woman, so I've pared back to the ones I started, and if they happen to overlap, great! So I'll be trying to finish 9 books for the LGBTQ challenge. Which gives me more to read next year! Just finished The Book of Skulls, which might seem an unusual choice but one of the four main characters is gay/bisexual with a preference for men, and this is important to plot and character. It's a little jarring to read about attitudes in the early 70s. Ned, the character in question, *thinks* of himself as a pervert and a degenerate, which is, of course, the message that the world was giving us at the time. On the other hand, Silverberg displays an understanding that is ahead of his time, in that being gay is not a choice, nor a defect of character, and that it has nothing to do with your upbringing. Worth checking out.
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Sable Aradia
Posted 2017-10-03 1:25 PM (#16327 - in reply to #14880)
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FYI, I'm doing the Virtual Fantasy Con this year, and one of the panels I'm hosting will be Gender Issues in Fantasy. You can find the link for the event here if you'd care to check it out: https://www.facebook.com/events/1892593844326373/. Event starts on the 15th of October.
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