why can't i find any good gay lit w/o the abuse, underage characters, heavy trauma, and messed up shit? can anyone recommend smth?

the symposium

Do you mind if there's a murder? Like what kind of plot are you hoping for with no conflict?

ways and means by daniel leffert? it's about gay finance bros or something, sounds comfy but it might be communist bullshit i doubt anyone can write about finance without serving "finance bad" slop for normoids still i plan to read it eventually maybe

>>24564333
He wants a wholesome story about fags which doesn't exist because being a fag has nothing to do with love.

>>24564204 (OP)
Ask reddit faggot

>>24564204 (OP)
Letting gays tell a story and being surprised when it's a tragedy is like teaching blacks how to make movies and being shocked they all made martial arts and action films. It's pretty much impossible to avoid.
Nightwood is a great book but doesn't entirely meet your criteria; The City and the Pillar is both closer and further. Good luck anon, wish I could be more helpful.

>implying the trauma and underage abuse isn’t what makes people gay in the first place
Colm Toibin might do you, or Edmund White

the starless sea

>>24564435
OP is not going to read Nightwood, his brain would explode with problematic language
If you're going to rec him lesbian books, The Price of Salt is the happy lesbian novel. Just don't read almost anything else by the author OP

>>24564204 (OP)
I don't do gay lit.
The closest I ever came? Lesbian romance with a revenge plot. But I admit, I know zero about lesbians, I just straight made that shit all up. Doubt I'll do much with that smut experiment, but who knows.
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I introduced a gay female character in my one series, but I treated her different than most. She's a recurring character across a couple books. I'm sure any actual gay person would whine I'm not treating my female gay character "correctly", whatever in the hell that even means.
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But I gave her what I felt was life and soul. A prominent place among the characters of the book she first appears in. I don't "worship" her being a dyke in any way at all. Its just, she's gay because she was raped when she was young? And that's that. And when the male MPs all get together, to solve a big real life case for one of their own back in the real world... they bring her in. She's that one female MP that all the male MPs didn't mind being around, having her for backup. I made her into something of a heavy, actually. I literally treat her as one of the guys, and she has certain skills that the team need. The fact I get drama and mileage and interesting dialog out of her? Is another plus.
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I mean, I'm actively writing, because I don't want woke writing. So, I'm making non-woke genre slop fiction. And even I like having her as one of the main characters, she's kind of rounds things out.
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What I didn't do with my gay female character. No wonder woman syndrome. WhIle she is fairly tall and athletic, and a trained fighter because of being an MP for six years... she's most dangerous because even with all that, she needs to go for her gun quick, and ventilate a violent perp. She knows she can't go toe to toe with an aggressive male chimping out on adrenaline. I made her realistic, I felt.

>>24564204 (OP)
>why can't I find a book about drugs without all the drug stuff?

Do you like VN's OP? Read Jack in a Castle and Better Half by Nemlei. They are the gay life affirming love stories you're looking for. Ignore the rest from the replies in this thread, is pure projection.

>>24564352
Straight men say shit like this like they don’t despise women as a class

It's how they asexually reproduce

>>24564204 (OP)
There’s probably a bunch on asstr.

>>24564204 (OP)
Homosexuality stems from a rejection of God and, by extension, truth and beauty. Why do you think 1 in 2 homosexual men have molested a child?

>>24564204 (OP)
AO3 should have the WAFF cottage core gay stories you're looking for.

>>24566336
>Why do you think 1 in 2 homosexual men have molested a child?
you can't possibly believe this

>>24564204 (OP)
>about to recommend Memoirs of Hadrian
>remember Antinous was 14 when he met Hadrian
It's still a really good book desu, consider checking it out.