![]() This has been well and truly rectified in recent years as an increasing number of queer creators pour their lives into their books, movies and TV shows, partly as a way of contributing to a much-needed diversity in storytelling, but also to tell the kinds of stories they wish they had been exposed to in their formative years. It meant that as they struggled, and this reviewer is very much counted in that number, struggled to come to grips with their sexuality in a society that consistently told them, in ways big and small, that what they intrinsically were was wrong, perverted and desperately uncommon, there were no cultural touchstones with which to orient themselves, to process what they were feeling and, quite rightly, reach the point where they could accept who they were and what they were feeling as entirely normal. ![]() ![]() Something that LGBTQIA+ people of a certain age accepted, reluctantly it is best to add and with great disappointment, was that, growing up, they were likely to never see people like them reflected in grand and epic love stories on TV, and in movies and books. ![]()
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