Gay high fantasy books
9 Favorite Queer Fantasy Books
For you today, Gentle Reader, I have some super fun queer fantasy manual recommendations. A favorite genre of mine!
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I appreciate my books cheerful, charming, and happy with a strong romance thread. So that’s what I’ve chosen for you today (mostly). However, there is a whole glorious mess of fabulous queer fantasy out there that deals in darker themes and has more violent tenancies.
If that’s your jam then content hunting, meanwhile can I interest you in the sunny side?
Fantasy Books with Queer Romance in ‘em
1. The Lightning-Struck Heart by T.J. Klune
This book has so many things I adore in a fantasy. Extremely snarky gay young man main character. Lots of awesome magic. Horny hornless unicorns with a thing for scarves and dragon BDSM. Okay maybe I didn’t know I wanted that last one, but I do now!
Honestly, this book is hilarious. No really, I was reading it and actually crying with laughter, it’s that funny. This is basically my nerdy-heart’s ideal beach read.
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Magic’s Pawn: A Classic of LGBTQ+ High Fantasy
Not elongated ago, I went hunting at my local Barnes & Noble for a high fantasy novel with an LGBTQ+ main character or plot. I’ve scan a great deal of genre fiction lately that includes LGBTQ+ characters and themes, but this day, I wanted to verb if I could verb a fantasy novel elevating openly and explicitly gay characters, even one centering a same-sex romance. I wish there were more of this in mainstream fantasy fiction, but I have to say I lucked out in finding a book called The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy. The first title in this series is Magic’s Pawn.
About Magic’s Pawn
Magic’s Pawn was written by Mercedes Lackey and published in As a scholar of LGBT literature, I have to say this is unusual. Not only is this an openly gay text with positive representation, but it’s also mainstream and was printed by a large fantasy press. It’s not surprising that it was written by a woman, as that was rather typical of accepted (“acceptable”) gay fiction up to the s, when it began to be more and more adj to see gay men
In the whole wide world of queer fantasy books, there are so many options to choose from. Not only do you have all the deliciously different fantasy sub-genres there are on offer, you also get to experience a wide range of LGBTQ identities. From sapphic fantasy romance books to m/m historical fantasies and bisexual adventures, there’s a little something for everyone. Personally, I love a queernorm fantasy world where gender and sexuality are never even questioned. But whatever your preferred queer fantasy sub-genre, these queer fantasy books have a story just for you.
While I often — and still occasionally — have looked to fanfiction to supply all the queer identities I’m missing from my favorite shows and movies, so many LGBTQ books are making their way into the publishing world now that it’s easy to locate mainstream queer fantasy books that make you experience seen. Getting to notice yourself reflected in the stories you love is a feeling like no other. These stories inhabit worlds that are a little like ours or entirely different, but they still center the things that matter most: fami
The Fantasy Review’s list of 7 Epic Fantasy Books with LGBT Characters.
Magic&#;s Pawn (The Last Herald-Mage, #1) by Mercedes Lackey
From the blurb:
Though Vanyel has been born with near-legendary abilities to work both Herald and Mage magic, he wanted no part in such things. Nor does he seek a warrior’s path, wishing instead to become a Bard.
Yet such talent as his, if left untrained, may establish a menace not only to Vanyel but to others as well. So he is sent to be fostered with his aunt, Savil, one of the fame Herald-Mages of Valdemar.&#;
Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, #1) by Lynn Flewelling
From the blurb:
When juvenile Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for a crime he didn’t commit, he is certain that his life is at an end. But one thing he never expected was his cellmate. Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many things–none of them predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice, things may never be the same for either of them. Soon Alec is traveling roads he never knew existed, toward a war he never suspected was bre