Gaylaxicon 2009
Notes on a Panel of Gay Sci Fi Writers:
What Makes it Interesting?
Girls rarely like Fantasy/Sci Fi/Horror
Female Heroes
Violate expectations; transgress. Something about skin?
(Gothic romance)
(good, old) (no sex) Vampires
("abstinence porn")
(cult) Twilight.
Dracula is not hot. Gross! Travel:
It has become the backbone of the eastern Washington economy. At the Ace Hardware in a town of 900 people, over 1,000 people come from all over the world, every day.
"Smut."
Snarky commentary summaries on LiveJournal.
Leatherdale, Clive. The Origins of Dracula: The Background to Bram Stoker's Gothic Masterpiece. Westcliff-on-Sea Essex U.K.: Desert Island Books, 1995.
Takeshi Kaneshiro in Perhaps Love. Gay incest yaoi.
Anime always seems to go places where others fear to tread.
Zombies. Angels, bisexual, sex with. (Milton)
Alexander the Great's Body was encased in honey.
They stilll haven't found it. True Blood.
Vampire listserves of the 1980s.
"Rich is sexy."
"I don't know what that's about"
(note, the author was surprised to find it was popular,
it was hot. Why? Don't know.
Try writing another one.)
Fiction of fandom.
Reader->Writer. Writer->Reader.
(Mostly the Former)
Key to a successful series?
They are predators. I mean, bisexuals.
Nope, predators. Wait!
But where's the identity politics?
Autobiography, BDSM blood fetishists.
The create clans, not sexualized attracting.
Octavia Butler, Fledgling.
Where Community Replaces One True Love.(As opposed to, oh I'll take lots of sex, thank you, but then monogamy.)
Polyamory, and other reasons why Sci-Fi conventions are good places to talk about alternative sex lives.
The demon sadist is able to destroy the body of his masochist, then heal it again.
Did you know that time tavel romance was hilarious?
Strong Women go back in time to meet Strong Men.
Mina Harper was a 'new woman.'
Mr. Darcy, Vampire
Pride and Prejudice and...well, ok.
Throwaway Romance
Classic, Gothic.
You know, Dark Angels. But what the hell, with
Steampunk? I don't get that?
Wait, what? Steampunk is the one thing I get. Let me talk!
No, wait, let him talk.
The press, silly. The commercial vs. ugh, the decline of the
queer , uhm press.
Stylistic conventions, formulae, genre problem
"gay"
auto
sex v. politics
Just give me the sex!
What Makes it Interesting?
Girls rarely like Fantasy/Sci Fi/Horror
Female Heroes
Violate expectations; transgress. Something about skin?
(Gothic romance)
(good, old) (no sex) Vampires
("abstinence porn")
(cult) Twilight.
Dracula is not hot. Gross! Travel:
It has become the backbone of the eastern Washington economy. At the Ace Hardware in a town of 900 people, over 1,000 people come from all over the world, every day.
"Smut."
Snarky commentary summaries on LiveJournal.
Leatherdale, Clive. The Origins of Dracula: The Background to Bram Stoker's Gothic Masterpiece. Westcliff-on-Sea Essex U.K.: Desert Island Books, 1995.
Takeshi Kaneshiro in Perhaps Love. Gay incest yaoi.
Anime always seems to go places where others fear to tread.
Zombies. Angels, bisexual, sex with. (Milton)
Alexander the Great's Body was encased in honey.
They stilll haven't found it. True Blood.
Vampire listserves of the 1980s.
"Rich is sexy."
"I don't know what that's about"
(note, the author was surprised to find it was popular,
it was hot. Why? Don't know.
Try writing another one.)
Fiction of fandom.
Reader->Writer. Writer->Reader.
(Mostly the Former)
Key to a successful series?
- Early on, have a story.
- Then, begin the unending sex scenes.
They are predators. I mean, bisexuals.
Nope, predators. Wait!
But where's the identity politics?
Autobiography, BDSM blood fetishists.
The create clans, not sexualized attracting.
Octavia Butler, Fledgling.
Where Community Replaces One True Love.(As opposed to, oh I'll take lots of sex, thank you, but then monogamy.)
Polyamory, and other reasons why Sci-Fi conventions are good places to talk about alternative sex lives.
The demon sadist is able to destroy the body of his masochist, then heal it again.
Did you know that time tavel romance was hilarious?
Strong Women go back in time to meet Strong Men.
Mina Harper was a 'new woman.'
Mr. Darcy, Vampire
Pride and Prejudice and...well, ok.
Throwaway Romance
Classic, Gothic.
You know, Dark Angels. But what the hell, with
Steampunk? I don't get that?
Wait, what? Steampunk is the one thing I get. Let me talk!
No, wait, let him talk.
The press, silly. The commercial vs. ugh, the decline of the
queer , uhm press.
Stylistic conventions, formulae, genre problem
"gay"
auto
sex v. politics
Just give me the sex!