Gay Menyaio and the false narrative of escapism

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[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I once heard someone say 'Love, Simon (both the book and the movie) is gay fiction for a straight audience'. Even if the author wasn't bisexual, she still wouldn't get the details right simply because she's a woman attracted to women and men, and in no way a man.

Edit: Turns out Adam Silvera wrote a book together with Becky Albertalli. I wonder how that turned out.

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I’ve always found Becky Albertalli’s work off-putting. Love Simon is probably her most tolerable one.

Yeah, they’ve done a collab. I haven’t read it and not going too, not even Mr. Silvera could save it I think, lol.

I’m way more into lesbian stories by female authors these days (Girls of Paper and Fire and Crier’s War were stunningly good, like re-read level good) but if I’m going to pick up a book about gay male romance it’s gotta be written by a gay man. Not interested in what women regardless of sexual orientation imagine that world to be like, lol.