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Review: Forrest House – E.M. Hamill

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Forrest House - E.M. Hamill

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Scott Universal Buy Link | Amazon About The Book Blood is Stronger Than Magic Ander Forrest renounced blood magic to become a nurse-healer in his rural hometown, far from the drama of wizardry and espionage his sister Kate craved. When Kate goes missing in action, Ander finds himself the legal guardian of her gifted twins and receives a cryptic warning from Kate’s husband to protect them before he, too, disappears. Six months later, his former lover crash lands in the kids’ bedroom via a spell only Ander’s sister could have cast. Druid Cai Piper doesn’t … Read more

Review: Forrest House – E.M. Hamill

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Forrest House - E.M. Hamill

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Rari Universal Buy Link | Amazon About The Book Blood is Stronger Than Magic Ander Forrest renounced blood magic to become a nurse-healer in his rural hometown, far from the drama of wizardry and espionage his sister Kate craved. When Kate goes missing in action, Ander finds himself the legal guardian of her gifted twins and receives a cryptic warning from Kate’s husband to protect them before he, too, disappears. Six months later, his former lover crash lands in the kids’ bedroom via a spell only Ander’s sister could have cast. Druid Cai Piper doesn’t … Read more

New Release: Twisted Two: Return to Travianna – J.S. Frankel

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Twisted Two: Return to Travianna - J.S. Frankel

QSFer J.S. Frankel has a new queer LitRPG fantasy book out (gender swap): Twisted Two: Return to Travianna. Battling digital monsters was easy. Surviving an egomaniacal gamer is the real challenge for Angella and Sharon, two former humans trapped in a digital world where losing means everything. For five years, Angella and Sharon have lived quietly inside a digital world, safe from the bodies and lives they left behind.That safety is shattered when someone on the outside decides that they’re no longer meant to be hidden. Pulled back into the physical world and forced into a game they don’t control, … Read more

New Release: Hexes of Bronze – K.L. Noone

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Hexes of Bronze - K.L. Noone

QSFer K.L. Noone has a new queer fantasy romance book out, Aric and Emrys book 4: Hexes of Bronze. Swordsman Aric and his half-fairy partner Emrys need to lie low for a while. They’ve been attracting attention, and not just from very human kings and merchants — Em’s powerful fairy-lord father is looking for his lost heir. So Aric and Em have taken some time off from heroic adventures to visit Aric’s brother Berd, an architect who’s helping build the brand-new king’s city of Ambrosium. But the construction seems cursed. Collapsing walls, accidents, spoiled provisions — there’s dark magic at … Read more

New Release: Quill and Still – Aaron Sofaer

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Quill and Still - Aaron Sofaer

QSFer Aaron Sofaer has a new Queer LitRPG Fantasy book out (Ace, Agender, Aro, Bi, Demi, Gay, Gender Fluid, Lesbian, Non-Binary, Poly, Trans MTF): Quill & Still. Sophie Nadash once yearned to understand life and chemistry. Now a disillusioned scientist approaching middle age, she yearns to set aside pipettes and polymerase forever. A chance encounter with the Goddess Artemis sets her on the path to becoming the Alchemist for the rural Shemmai village of Kibosh, where the rat race gives way to peace and the quiet life. Freed from the hustle of Earth, she can relax, make friends, and rediscover … Read more

Review: Dalí – E.M. Hamill

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Dalí - E.M. Hamill

Genre: Sci-Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Genderfluid, Genderqueer, Non-Binary, Intersex Reviewer: Rari Get It On Amazon | Series Box Set About The Book Dalí Tamareia has everything—a young family and a promising career as an Ambassador in the Sol Fed Diplomatic Corps. Dalí’s path as a peacemaker seems clear, but when their loved ones are killed in a terrorist attack, grief sends the genderfluid changeling into a spiral of self-destruction. Fragile Sol Fed balances on the brink of war with a plundering alien race. Their skills with galactic relations are desperately needed to broker a protective alliance, but in mourning, Dalí no longer cares, … Read more

Defining Genderqueer

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Many genderqueer people have different explanations of what the term means to them. But, in the general sense, genderqueer is a gender identity that falls outside the categories of male and female. Some may define it as their gender belonging somewhere in the middle of the gender binary, while others are beyond the binary completely. The origins of the word “genderqueer” are unclear, although it is believed to have been used as early as the 1980s during the rise of queer zine culture. Back then, queer writers and activists were challenging the notions of gender and wanted a term that … Read more

Hollywood Fail: No Trans Characters in Major Films in Four Years

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There hasn’t been a single trans or non-binary character in a major Hollywood film for four years, proving Hollywood still has a long way to go towards LGBT+ representation. LGBT+ media advocacy organisation GLAAD released its ninth annual Studio Responsibility Index Thursday (15 July), which tracks the representation of queer characters released by eight major Hollywood studios in 2020. The study found that there were no trans or non-binary characters represented in any of the 44 films released by the eight largest film studios. According to GLAAD, this is the fourth year in a row that trans and non-binary characters … Read more

FOR WRITERS: Celebrating Our Trans, Gender Fluid, Non-Binary and Genderqueer Authors

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: It’s the Transgender Day of Visibility, and while I think every day should be, I’d like to take the chance to ask our trans, NB, gender fluid and genderqueer authors to stand up and tell us who they are, what they write, and share links to their work. :) Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: https://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: https://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

ANNOUNCEMENT: Iron & Brass – Chris Fain

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Iron & Brass - Chris Fain

QSFer Chris Fain has a new queer dark urban fantasy/horror book out (gay, gender fluid, genderqueer): Iron & Brass. Ramona Stone is a retired boxer and cancer survivor barely getting by in a faded Rust-Belt town—until she unwittingly frees a jinni from a thrift-store teapot. Now her cat has the power of speech, an ultra-powerful being is bunking on her couch…and her snow-locked community is set to become a battleground between our reality and a magic netherworld beyond. For the shapeshifting cannibal ghul Ashera has vowed to pursue Izi al-Samoon from the frozen vales of urban West Virginia to the … Read more