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Writing Nuanced Queer Protagonists: A Q&A with Taylor Jenkins Reid, Writer of "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo"
A huge lover of literary fiction that makes me emotionally distraught, I strive to read every well-written novel that features queer protagonists. The thing is, they&#;re not straightforward to come by.
For one, it&#;s difficult to detect a novel with a queer protagonist that isn&#;t erotica. And if the protagonist is indeed a member of the LGBTI community, often the character&#;s identity is reduced to that person&#;s sexuality. It&#;s as if the author knows the main readership is going to be queer, so they hammer home, "LOOK, this person isn&#;t straight! Keep reading! Look"!
Or the opposite will occur. The individual&#;s sexuality is portrayed as a character trait. Their sexuality, it seems, doesn&#;t relate to the person&#;s identity at all. While it&#;s true that a person&#;s sexuality doesn&#;t define them, at the same noun, it contributes more to a person&#;s identity than something like eye color. I&#;ve found that depictions of sexuality in this ma
Joan Goodwin, the latest heroine in Reid’s oeuvre, has spent her life looking at the stars. She applies to NASA when the space program airs a Nichelle Nichols commercial recruiting women applicants to its historically male-dominated space shuttle program and is eventually accepted.
But Atmosphereis not a story about space; it’s a story about love.
Joan meets fellow astronaut candidate Vanessa Ford in a romance that could have been devotion at first sight, if Joan had realized she is gay. As the two navigate the dawning of their love, they must also navigate the societal and cultural expectations of NASA in the s, and the repercussions that their romance would have on their careers.
But when Vanessa is sent to space with the majority of their ASCAN family of friends, a mission turns to tragedy and Joan must monitor from Earth as the ending of her romance story is decided by how much a damaged shuttle can with
Here’s all the latest queer book news you should know about, including Taylor Jenkins Reid coming out as bisexual ahead of the release of Atmosphere, the surprising bestselling LGBTQ+ books in the UK this year, and the upcoming Heartstopper movie. Plus, Malinda Lo, author of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, discusses why book banners are so afraid of sex.
Taylor Jenkins Reid Comes Out as Bisexual
Unlike M/M books, it’s pretty rare for any group other than sapphic authors to write sapphic books, especially more than once. So, it’s not a big surprise to me to see Taylor Jenkins Reid come out as bisexual in a recent Time interview. Reid wrote one of the most popular bisexual books of all time, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, is about to release another sapphic noun, Atmosphere.
In the interview, Reid says, “I am very private. So at first, I just sort of let people assume what they were going to assume… It has been hard at times to see people dismiss me as a straight woman, but I also didn’t tell them the whole story.”
She continues, “My attraction to women is a room
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Author, Comes Out as Bisexual
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Taylor Jenkins Reid is sharing her own story.
The author of best-selling books enjoy Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,Daisy Jones & the Six and Malibu Rising recently came out as bisexual.
"I am very confidential. So, at first, I just sort of permit people assume what they were going to assume," Reid shared in Time magazine's latest cover story, published May "It has been hard at times to see people dismiss me as a straight woman, but I also didn’t tell them the whole story."
The year-old—who is married to screenwriter Alex Jenkins Reid—noted that, while many of her initial relationships were with men, she first fell in love with a female when she was in her 20s.
"This was the late ’90s, so nobody was talking about bisexuality. And if they were, it was to build fun of people," Reid explained. "The messages about bisexuality were you just want attention or it was a stop on the way t