What sort of lesbian stories would you like to see?

submitted by writerlylesbian from (self.Lesbians)

So I think we all know that the type and quality of lesbian stories available to us is less than stellar in our current world. What sort of stories would you like to see, if we could have anything/everything we wanted?

I'm working on a few stories myself currently.

Fantasy Novel - reworks some elements from various myths and fairy tales, but isn't a straight re-telling. Has a strong romance core because I love my lesbian romances, especially when there is fantasy and magic involved.

Dark Fantasy Novel - has darker themes than Fantasy Novel #1. I actually started Dark Fantasy Novel all the way back in 2010, because I felt like I could see a lot of lesbian culture and feminist culture slipping away before my eyes. So I wrote a fantasy novel that explored that happening in a fictional world. Pretty dark for most of the book because it's basically about women losing everything, but has a hopeful thread running through it and ends on a hopeful note. I'm planning a sequel to this one at some point.

If S Class Yuri Met the Roaring 20s - So this one is pretty much a romance/drama that follows several different lesbian couples who all met in school, and have since all graduated and have to deal with various life/relationship challenges in a society that still is somewhat homophobic. It pretty much takes the basis of a lot of S Class-Type Yuri (girls having relationships in school but then growing out of it) and tries to re-imagine it into something semi-realistic, if there really was a society that was fine with girls 'experimenting' with each other, but being against serious relationships between women later on. Fictionalised setting, but it's pretty much based on 1920s England.

What sorts of stories would everyone else like there to be for us?

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[–]Virgee 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Love your ideas!

Another story I'd like to read is a lesbian heist story. Never found one.

And in general, I'm usually looking for any lesbian stories that aren't about coming out. (not that coming out stories aren't important, I'm just tired of reading them...)

[–]writerlylesbian[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A lesbian heist story would be awesome. I agree on the coming out stories. There are so many more stories that should be told.

[–]IamWomanHearMeRoar 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You might like D.E.B.S. It’s funny too :)

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    [–]writerlylesbian[S] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

    That's fantastic! Best of luck with finding a publisher.

    [–]lmaonope333 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    that's so cool! can you post an update when it gets published? I would love to read books about true lesbians

    [–]lxit09 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I love the sound of the dark fantasy! I'd love a dark fantasy novel where there are lesbain protagonists and there's conflict but none of the conflict is caused by their sexuality. There's no coming out. Just lesbians living their dark fantasy lives.

    [–]writerlylesbian[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    The first fantasy novel on my list is pretty much that. The world/themes are not that dark and heavy as I wanted it to be a more accessible and lighter read. But the main source of conflict is over a vow one of the characters has made that binds her to do this particular thing, and she'll die if she doesn't accomplish it.

    [–]VioletRemi 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    I'd love Sci-Fi story about two brave lesbian space-pirates. Society there can be strict dictatorship with birth control, where parents can kill gay children out of fear being executed or put in prison (like modern China). And our couple is one unit of diverse pirate fleet who are fighting for freedom and trying to make living. It should be more focused on personal stuff and their relationship, while whole world storytelling is just happening around.

    [–]writerlylesbian[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    lesbian space pirates sound awesome. As does space pirate fleet of rebels/resistance fighters. I didn't mention it on my list, but I am actually working on a sci fi story with lesbians.

    Also, I haven't read it yet (only got my copy of the book a week or so ago, it was hard to get due to all the shipping disruptions) but there's a sci fi novel called The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley which I've heard is a sci fi lesbian novel set in a female-only society. I've read some of Hurley's other novels, and I thought there were some things she did well, other things she did not so well (And she's not a lesbian author from what I can tell) but I am definitely interested in reading Stars Are Legion.

    [–]VioletRemi 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Sounds interesting, maybe I will check when I have time, thanks!

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      [–]writerlylesbian[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

      Have you ever read the Kate Martinelli books by Laurie R. King? She's a het woman author, but the Kate Martinelli books are about a lesbian homicide detective in San Francisco. Also some of Val McDermid's books have lesbian protagonists (she's a Scottish lesbian crime writer).

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        [–]writerlylesbian[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        the Lindsay Gordon series by Val McDermid has a lesbian protagonist (had to check the name, as there are several different series and I get them mixed up). About a lesbian journalist who keeps getting embroiled in murder. They're older books from the 80s, but I enjoy them. Not least because the books very much portray a saner time when lesbians were lesbians and knew what a lesbian was.

        [–]al-Amira 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        I'd love something along the lines of The LA Quartet (The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, The Big Nowhere). So I guess crime/noir, oh... in actual print rather than ebook formats. I know it exists, but it's either very difficult to find in physical copies (from the lesbian pulp fiction time) or it's in ebook formats.

        [–]candiedDagon 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

        I'd love to read some gothic horror or spooky mystery novel that just happens to have lesbians in it.

        [–]writerlylesbian[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

        the 'dark fantasy' novel I mentioned above actually has ghosts and a lot of Gothic themes. I'm a big fan of the Gothic, even wrote a mini-thesis on the subject years ago for one of my courses at uni.

        [–]candiedDagon 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

        Awesome, I wrote a long paper in uni on gothic vampire novels and their historical/cultural context. Some of the topics I covered were historical cases where corpses were buried alive, real life vampire superstitions, and scientific challenges to religion causing increasing anxiety about death... Such a fun paper to research! What was your thesis about?

        [–]writerlylesbian[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        Gothic horror influences in Australian Tasmanian fiction. I also looked at how Gothic traditions influenced some of the ways Tasmania was viewed and written about historically. (Tasmania had some of Australia's most brutal and notorious convict colonies, as well as being a tiny island at the literal end of the populated world, so no wonder it used to get written about as a Gothic horror land).