I would also be thrilled by your essay on queer identity/community and historicals. I like historical novels, I like (with many picky caveats) m/m romance, and yet the combination of the two - arrgh.
I've been reading Richard Stevenson's Donald Strachey mysteries, and the first couple straddle the arrival of AIDS into the American gay community (in writing - the first came out in 1981- as well as setting), and I found them fascinating in terms of cultural shift, and how the characters do, or don't adapt. I can't think of the last "historical" m/m I got that from.
(also, I'm not sure if you got my last pm - if not, the important points are a) two b) okayish and c) !!!! ).
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Date: 2013-10-09 08:17 am (UTC)I've been reading Richard Stevenson's Donald Strachey mysteries, and the first couple straddle the arrival of AIDS into the American gay community (in writing - the first came out in 1981- as well as setting), and I found them fascinating in terms of cultural shift, and how the characters do, or don't adapt. I can't think of the last "historical" m/m I got that from.
(also, I'm not sure if you got my last pm - if not, the important points are a) two b) okayish and c) !!!! ).