{"id":15389,"date":"2012-08-04T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2012\/08\/04\/gay-books-are-awful\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:14","slug":"gay-books-are-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2012\/08\/04\/gay-books-are-awful\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay books are awful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I get into that, my books are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/search\/search.html?q=hamish+macdonald\">now available<\/a> on Kobo devices!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1302\/gay-books-are-awful0.jpg.webp\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>So, the other day I was searching for a good gay novel, thinking I&#8217;d like to see what&#8217;s out there. Surely I&#8217;m not the only person writing fiction which features incidentally gay characters in the middle of a plot that isn&#8217;t about that.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I found (which I hesitate to even post here because it ventures so close to p*rn):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1302\/gay-books-are-awful1.jpg.webp\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This makes me feel I have a duty to put something better out there. If that sounds snobby, so be it. I don&#8217;t care, because all that stuff above is not fiction, is not literature, it&#8217;s verbal pornography for wanking over. Sex-fantasy stories, the same coming-out story told over and over by people who are too old to be lingering over those images and should have something more to say by now, &#8216;forbidden love&#8217; wish-fulfillment&#8221;&brvbar;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying it should be censored, but if that&#8217;s the best we can imagine for ourselves, that breaks my heart.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Surely there&#8217;s better work out there, but you can&#8217;t find it for the vast sea of naked torsos.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I get into that, my books are now available on Kobo devices! So, the other day I was searching for a good gay novel, thinking I&#8217;d like to see what&#8217;s out there. Surely I&#8217;m not the only person writing fiction which features incidentally gay characters in the middle of a plot that isn&#8217;t about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}