Okay, I need help. Since the LGBTQ+ genre came out, I have at least 3 stories with LGBTQ+ themes/content, and the genre that falls under those stories were Fantasy. I am really having a hard time deciding if I should move my stories to LGBTQ+ genre or keep it to Fantasy. What should I do?
My stories mainly focus on the plot, and not the character’s sexuality but it will have a gay romance, for example, this is the plot I have for my published story:
Plot: Cursed for eternity, shocked by his betrothed, he will not stop until he finds a solution to end his curse. What will become of his betrothed? Will he find a cure or love?
I think because the focus isn’t sexuality or coming of age your stories may be better in the fantasy section. I could totally be misinterpreting the genre, but I think the point is probably to center queer stories. If it helps, you could try looking up LGBTQ+ on netflix or something and see what qualifies according to them. Hope this helped
I think LGBTQ+ would be a good tag, or sub-genre, but I’m pretty sure the genre itself is intended to go in depth with people’s identities (like maybe a coming out story for example). Since your story focuses on fantasy elements, I’d keep it in that genre. A story may contain LGBTQ+, but it may not always belong to that label alone. So I think you’re good already
I have been back and forth about this with one of my stories as well, because the MC is asexual, and while that is a significant subplot of the story, it’s not the main drive/plot of the story.
I have talked with a few friends, and I really wish they’d revamp the tagging of stories to make them easier to search (maybe pre-worded keywords) that way, readers can select keywords.
What I see in the LGBTQ+ genre is stories where the MC is exclusively LGBTQ+ (not choose your sexuality) so that LGBTQ+ readers can find these stories easier. If it is only stories that center around sexuality itself, I’m afraid there won’t be a good quantity of stories to fill the genre, and it will be a lot of “coming out” stories. I would enjoy reading more stories, similar to the Queer contest, where it shows LGBTQ+ members in their every day lives, and even perfectly comfortable with their sexuality.
It depends on the main genre.
If there’re too many scenes with romance, you can consider changing the genre to LGBTQ+. If there’s not much romance is just a sub-genre, you can stick with Fantasy.
Yeah, I would say keep it fantasy because the plot doesn’t necessarily revolve around LGBTQ+ themes, even if there are queer main characters
(I’m keeping adventure awaits! under adventure, even though the plot revolves around a relationship between two dudes. But like, the word ‘adventure’ is in the title lol).
I think this genre should be about coming out, the struggles, the romance, anything that revolves around the topic.
I have a story where the main character is in lesbian relationship. But that’s not the main topic, so the story should stay in Thriller genre.
I have a story where main male character can choose his LI gender. And since story doesn’t revolve about Lgbtq, but other problems, it stays in Drama genre.
