I was wondering if there's any appetite anymore for queer tragedies as it seems (going by what i've read on the internet, so not a comprehensive study lol) that people are strongly against them.
Of course the whole "bury your gays" thing was so overdone back when us queerios were widely loathed and weren't allowed a happy ending, at least in mainstream media that it's a trope. But i'm curious how fully it's swung the other way?
Older stories also portrayed LGBTQ+ people as laughable parodies or evil predators or tragic cardboard cut-outs, which of course (most) authors now wouldn't do. Stories written with modern common sense show LGBTQ+ people realistically but are readers shunning doomed love/tragedy/they all die type stories nonetheless?
Personally i love a good, complicated, grown-up, well-written tragedy – for some reason i deliberately read stuff to get my heart ripped to shreds (must be internalised queerphobia right?) or at the very least an ambiguous ending but am i in a sick and twisted minority or do other people kind of dislike HEA's?
(Disclaimer: i don't only read tragedies. I like my books like i like my sandwiches: varied and interesting and slightly out of date.)
by SneakyCorvidBastard