The Outer Alliance

As a member of the Outer Alliance, I advocate for queer speculative fiction and those who create, publish and support it, whatever their sexual orientation and gender identity. I make sure this is reflected in my actions and my work.

So, I just joined today (and immediately gmail went t.u.! 🙂 ), being a queer-identified, label-juggling pan-sexual alt-gendered person with a very long history of concern and activism for queer issues. The vampires in The Vampires of New England series are all pan-sexual–it’s part of their nature. In my forthcoming novel, The Longer the Fall, several human characters are bisexual and a major supporting character is a lesbian. I write about complex characters whose sexuality is just one part of who they are, and I don’t tend to write fiction in order to make a point. But I would find it a challenge to write a militant hetero or flaming homophobe sympathetically.