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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
When 90%+ of fiction about gay males is written by nice, married suburban moms spinning out fantasies without really understanding the world they write about, it is a problem.
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It's what their readers want to read. And 90+ % of their readers are straight women. I don't think anyone is stopping real LGBT people from writing and publishing (though I may well be wrong). It's just that those straight women (who are, after all, the majority of romance readers) don't find their stuff as attractive. Like it or not, but the majority of both writers and readers are straight people with pretty conventional preferences.
Edit to add: I've read several novels about gay men written by actual gay men. Some of them were very good. But those works are few and far between. I guess there just aren't enough gay male writers to compete with thousands of those suburban moms.