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Originally Posted by hildea
Knowing that I'm a part of that 800 pound gorilla that is straight women reading romance, I try to alleviate this by seeking out, and reviewing, romances written by queer people. (I'm not great at reviewing, but working on it.) In contemporary romance I like Nathan Burgoine, Alexis Hall, and Jack Harbon. In SFF romance, TJ Klune and Tasha Suri. Historical romance: Hm, only E.E. Ottoman springs to mind.
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Me too, to a point. I read a lot of m/m romance and UF and mystery, and didn't realize the outcry until recently on Twitter. I looked through my authors in case as I typically don't pay attention to the author when picking out these books - some seemed straight, some were not, some were female, some male. Most of these are small press or self-published either way, and not many have enough of a following to rival some of the large name authors, no matter if they are straight women who enjoy writing this stuff, LGBT or trans. Reading perspectives from readers and authors on this issue has been interesting.