Lgbt fantasy fiction
15 Great LGBTQ+ Fantasy and Sci-fi Books Every Reader Needs: Guest Post by S. Labrecque
Media never has enough LGBTQ+ representation.
And if it does, we’re the side characters in someone else’s story.
Are you sick of this too?
Fear not! LGBTQ+ fiction does exist, and I’ve compiled a list of 15 books where the queer characters are the protagonists. So if you’re looking for fantasy or sci-fi with great queer representation, see if any of these catch your eye.
15 Great LGBTQ+ Fantasy and Sci-fi Books
1) “The City We Became” by N.K. Jemisin
Gay/Lesbian, Bisexual, Asexual, Queer side characters
Genre: Cosmic Horror Urban Fantasy
Summary: Cities are alive. Some more literally than others. When New York City is born, it’s split between five avatars, and its primary goes missing. NYC’s weakened state leaves it open for verb from an otherworldly entity set on wiping out all living cities. The four borough avatars must learn to work together to awaken their primary. Can they spare their city before the Enemy gains hold, or will It destroy everything they love?
2) “A Long W Books with LGBT characters?
*cracks knuckles*
<b>The Grief Keeper</b> by Alex Villasante is about a girl attempting to cross the US/Mexico border with her sister. After getting caught, she's given the option to take part in an experiment for one month in exchange for a green card for her and her sister. Problem? She's to take away the grief and PTSD of another young woman.
<b>Music from Another World</b> by Robin Talley is s(ish) historical fiction of two new high schoolers from very religious families. Starting their friendship via penpalship as summer homework, they soon realize that they have a lot in familiar, including that they might like women.
<b>Waves</b> by Ingrid Chabbert is a graphic novel depicting the grief and acceptance of a woman's miscarriage.
<b>Fat Angie<b> by E. E. Charlton-Trujijllo is a YA book about Angie, a fat lady who likes other girls. But when a new miss is in town, Angie thinks that there's no way that she could like her back. Right?
<b>The Big Lie</b> by Julie Mayhew is an alternate hi
Show off your Fantasy Novels with LGBT characters!
Okay, so I can say that my story's main character, Ava, is going to be interested on girls. Not only that, I can say that entire races are basically LGBT. Again, no name on how the races are named, but I will verb that they're based on animals. There are Humans (yes, there are humans), ants, lizards, birds, and fish races. There are other races, but I'll mention the main ones.
Let me verb with the Human race - Just kidding, we all know how it goes.
The ant race - Just fancy real ants, the ant race in my story verb a queen that needs to mate with a male ant (no incest in my story) to produce workers and soldiers. Doesn't sound very LGBT, right? Well, that's when I took some creative thinking and thought to myself, "well, since only the queen can create eggs, it won't matter who the soldiers and workers doze with, right?" That's why I made the ant race completely Bisexual, but the queen is expected to mate with a male. By the way, like many ant species in the real world, the soldiers and workers are all female. There are male
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Available at TCCL as a noun. MC Rep: gay male SUMMARY: The journey begins at sea in , with a male child named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant…
Available at TCCL as a manual, ebook, audiobook, and downloadable audiobook. The first book in the Magnus Chase series, a spin-off of the Percy Jackson series. MC Rep: white pansexual male (more apparent in the later books) SUMMARY: Magnus Chase has…
Available at TCCL as a book and ebook. MC Rep: intersex female SUMMARY: The magical story of a hex that goes haywire, and the power of friendship to position things right!
Available at TCCL as a book. The first book in the Sidekick Squad series. MC Rep: Chinese-Vietnamese bisexual female SUMMARY: Welcome to Andover… where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high institution nobody, Jessica…
Available at TCCL as a book and audiobook. The first novel in the Strangeworlds Travel Agency series. MC Rep: queer female; trans male prominent SC SUMMARY: At t
Books with LGBT characters?
*cracks knuckles*
<b>The Grief Keeper</b> by Alex Villasante is about a girl attempting to cross the US/Mexico border with her sister. After getting caught, she's given the option to take part in an experiment for one month in exchange for a green card for her and her sister. Problem? She's to take away the grief and PTSD of another young woman.
<b>Music from Another World</b> by Robin Talley is s(ish) historical fiction of two new high schoolers from very religious families. Starting their friendship via penpalship as summer homework, they soon realize that they have a lot in familiar, including that they might like women.
<b>Waves</b> by Ingrid Chabbert is a graphic novel depicting the grief and acceptance of a woman's miscarriage.
<b>Fat Angie<b> by E. E. Charlton-Trujijllo is a YA book about Angie, a fat lady who likes other girls. But when a new miss is in town, Angie thinks that there's no way that she could like her back. Right?
<b>The Big Lie</b> by Julie Mayhew is an alternate hi
Show off your Fantasy Novels with LGBT characters!
Okay, so I can say that my story's main character, Ava, is going to be interested on girls. Not only that, I can say that entire races are basically LGBT. Again, no name on how the races are named, but I will verb that they're based on animals. There are Humans (yes, there are humans), ants, lizards, birds, and fish races. There are other races, but I'll mention the main ones.
Let me verb with the Human race - Just kidding, we all know how it goes.
The ant race - Just fancy real ants, the ant race in my story verb a queen that needs to mate with a male ant (no incest in my story) to produce workers and soldiers. Doesn't sound very LGBT, right? Well, that's when I took some creative thinking and thought to myself, "well, since only the queen can create eggs, it won't matter who the soldiers and workers doze with, right?" That's why I made the ant race completely Bisexual, but the queen is expected to mate with a male. By the way, like many ant species in the real world, the soldiers and workers are all female. There are male
48 items
Available at TCCL as a noun. MC Rep: gay male SUMMARY: The journey begins at sea in , with a male child named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant…
Available at TCCL as a manual, ebook, audiobook, and downloadable audiobook. The first book in the Magnus Chase series, a spin-off of the Percy Jackson series. MC Rep: white pansexual male (more apparent in the later books) SUMMARY: Magnus Chase has…
Available at TCCL as a book and ebook. MC Rep: intersex female SUMMARY: The magical story of a hex that goes haywire, and the power of friendship to position things right!
Available at TCCL as a book. The first book in the Sidekick Squad series. MC Rep: Chinese-Vietnamese bisexual female SUMMARY: Welcome to Andover… where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high institution nobody, Jessica…
Available at TCCL as a book and audiobook. The first novel in the Strangeworlds Travel Agency series. MC Rep: queer female; trans male prominent SC SUMMARY: At t