Bart and Chris by Amy Crook

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More from RT Booklovers: Day 2! GLBT “Post-Gay”? Marketing Series, and Bonus Content

Here are my recaps of a few more panels: Post-Gay, Marketing Series, and Bonus/Free Content.

POST-GAY: When Characters Just Happen to be Gay
This was a powerhouse panel of fantastic queerfolk including:
HelenKay Dimon, filmmaker JC Calciano, Radclyffe, JA Rock, LA Witt, and Reesa Herberth, and moderated by Sarah Frantz Lyons.

The discussion had depth and pith, and I can’t really recapture the whole ebb and flow of it since I only wrote down a few notes and choice quotes, but the essential internal conflict the community as a whole seems to be struggling with is how to continue to represent queer characters and queer lives within this mainstream literary form without necessarily hewing to either the expected stereotypes and well-trod coming-out and/or tragic arcs, or making their queerness the central aspect of their story. Is it possible to have stories and novels where the characters just “happen to be queer”?

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