I am all for dark, complicated, erotic queer stories being written even though they are typically not my thing (but sometimes they are!), but I wish I could find more of the light, conflictless, "pure cinnamon roll" queer SFF that people sometimes talk about as contrast too?
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I think that's the sweet spot for me too but contemp feels weird to me when it elides the difficulties that can come with being queer here/now- not necessarily like in a bullying and forced outing way, more the daily lower-key internal aspects of anxiety, exhaustion, frustration?
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I get a strange sense of dislocation reading characters my age (early 30s) in the US that don't seem to have the anti-same-sex-marriage crusades of the Bush years as a reference point during their adolescence, or the sense that our progress since then is precious but precarious
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