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Still, as an adult, whenever I've brought this up with my straight (and generally gay-friendly) buddies, they without exception deny ever having had similar experiences.
So, to better place my own sexual development in context, I'd like to know how common it is for young boys to experiment with each other. homosexuality at that age.
That friendship eventually waned and only a couple of years later I began experimenting again with another buddy of mine, this time pretty much going ‘all the way’. The Homo Sapiens Agenda and The Miseducation of Cameron Post have been turned into blockbuster films, and just about every YA agent out there has “own-voices LGBTQ+ stories” on their manuscript wish list.
However, don’t make the mistake of thinking there’s anything close to a surplus of these stories!
In both cases, it was my friend that made the first 'move'. This page is home to all the LGBTQ+ stories submitted to our Reedsy short fiction contest, whether as part of a related prompt or simply to tell an LGBTQ+ story that touches readers’ hearts and minds.
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Because while it’s true that LGBTQ+ creators have long been part of the literary scene (Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Patricia Highsmith, Truman Capote, and countless more), it’s only recently that they’ve been able to acknowledge their identities without fear of persecution... It was relatively innocent, involving nothing more than mutual masturbation.
Since I had fooled around with friends throughout my early adolescence and since I had never been the one to initiate things, I guess I just assumed everyone else had found themselves in similar circumstances when they were young. Particularly those who grow up to identify as straight.
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Click on the previews to read each one, and remember to “like” and comment on your favorites, as well “follow” the authors you love.Trailblazing authors like David Levithan and Sarah Waters proved that readers were hungry for LGBTQ+ fiction and representation, and since the early aughties, this trend has only been on the rise.
In fact, I had absolutely no concept of hetero- vs. It was with a friend (also male and around the same age) and went on for two or three years. Not only do many incredible LGBTQ+ stories remain as-yet untold, but when you think about it, there are hardly any of them in the mainstream when compared to straight, cis narratives — which is why it’s such good news that this trend doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.
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Now, as an adult, I primarily identify as gay, and I feel strongly that having those experiences during my formative years helped shape my sexual identity.
Probably as a result of my own experiences, I have long assumed that it was common for boys to experiment sexually with each other. Bestselling novels like Simon vs.
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Over the past fifteen years or so, LGBTQ+ and queer fiction has veritably exploded — what we might call a long-overdue reckoning after many years of literary scarcity. and even more recently that their stories have become accepted fare for mainstream fiction.
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Did you ever experiment?
June 2, 2007 11:57 PM Subscribe
I (male) had my first gay experience when I was around 12 years old.
I never associated what we did with the idea of ‘gay’.