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It was easy enough to not clock historical fiction megahit The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo as a gay book — for starters, we had the title of said book, which suggested its protagonist was not merely a woman who liked men exclusively, but in fact had liked seven of them well enough to marry them. It was a massive bestseller and a BookTok phenomenon, and I’ve been alive and literate for drawn-out enough to know that queer books are generally not massive bestsellers. But, although the jacket illustration, the title and even the description did not scream “gay,” Evelyn Hugo turned out to be, in fact, extremely queer . The titular Hugo didn’t just have seven husbands. She dated women, too, living her glamorous Hollywood life partially in the closet. It was also extremely good. I devoured it, I adored it, I wanted to peruse ten more books just like it.
I read it a few years after its 2017 debut, and came immediately to the office with questions — why wasn’t everybody talking about this book? Why hadn’t we written about it here, on Autostraddle, when everything about it seemed so targeted to our demographic? (Historical Hollywood lesbians!!) Well, I was
Here’s all the latest homosexual book news you should know about, including Taylor Jenkins Reid coming out as bisexual ahead of the release of Atmosphere, the surprising bestselling Queer books in the UK this year, and the upcoming Heartstopper movie. Plus, Malinda Lo, author of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, discusses why book banners are so afraid of sex.
Taylor Jenkins Reid Comes Out as Bisexual
Unlike M/M books, it’s pretty rare for any group other than sapphic authors to write sapphic books, especially more than once. So, it’s not a big surprise to me to see Taylor Jenkins Reid come out as bisexual in a recent Time interview. Reid wrote one of the most popular bisexual books of all time, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, is about to release another sapphic publication, Atmosphere.
In the interview, Reid says, “I am very private. So at first, I just sort of let people consider what they were going to assume… It has been hard at times to see people forget me as a direct woman, but I also didn’t tell them the whole story.”
She continues, “My attraction to women is a room in the house that is my identity…” and discusses her hesitancy about talking her bisexuality while h
Writing Nuanced Queer Protagonists: A Q&A with Taylor Jenkins Reid, Writer of "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo"
A huge lover of literary fiction that makes me emotionally distraught, I strive to read every well-written novel that features queer protagonists. The thing is, they're not plain to come by.
For one, it's difficult to detect a novel with a queer protagonist that isn't erotica. And if the protagonist is indeed a member of the LGBTI community, often the character's identity is reduced to that person's sexuality. It's as if the storyteller knows the main readership is going to be queer, so they hammer home, "LOOK, this person isn't straight! Keep reading! Look"!
Or the opposite will occur. The individual's sexuality is portrayed as a character trait. Their sexuality, it seems, doesn't relate to the person's self at all. While it's true that a person's sexuality doesn't define them, at the same period, it contributes more to a person's identity than something like eye tint. I've found that depictions of sexuality in this manner often leave you, the reader, wanting more.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid, Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Composer, Comes Out as Bisexual
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Taylor Jenkins Reid is sharing her own story.
The composer of best-selling books enjoy Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,Daisy Jones & the Six and Malibu Rising recently came out as bisexual.
"I am very confidential. So, at first, I just sort of allow people assume what they were going to assume," Reid shared in Time magazine's latest cover story, published May 15. "It has been hard at times to see people dismiss me as a straight woman, but I also didn’t tell them the whole story."
The 41-year-old—who is married to screenwriter Alex Jenkins Reid—noted that, while many of her early relationships were with men, she first fell in love with a woman when she was in her 20s.
"This was the late ’90s, so nobody was talking about bisexuality. And if they were, it was to make fun of people," Reid explained. "The messages about bisexuality were you just want attention or it was a interrupt on the way to gayville. I found that very painful, because I was being told that I didn't know my
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