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Originally Posted by Sirtel
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.
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There are gay/lesbian publishing houses, that do quite well, and have been in business for years and the writers are gay/lesbians.
What I find somewhat annoying is as you are reading the book, you start noticing that EVERYONE is a lesbian, and you can count the number of straight people on one hand!
I mean I get that you want to read about something that you think represents you, but come on that is just not realistic. For me, it's all about balance.