I didn’t grow up getting to see queer women in text, and while that’s improving, I find myself really wishing that there were some old ladies on the lgbtq+ spectrum in literally ANY of the books I’m reading. No offense heteros- some of my best friends are straight- but I’m tired of homogenously non-homosexual grandmas, crones, aunties, matriarchs, and spinsters.
I don’t want a May-December romance story, and I don’t want to read a lackluster book just to scratch this particular itch. Aside from that, I’d be curious to hear suggestions from any genre. I’d really like to find this in fiction, but if you have a great non-fiction recommendation, throw it at me. It doesn’t matter if the elderly gays are main characters or not, or if they are in a relationship, I just want them to exist.
(I know that there are plenty of older women in lit who *could be read* as queer, but I’ve been reading all manner of characters as queer my whole life, and I would specifically like recommendations with characters who are canonically lgbtq+.)
Cheers!
by 5000gayspiders
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A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo – a companion book to Last Night at the Telegraph Club which took place in the ’50s, and the queer women in the book did grow up and enter old age by the time the second book takes place.
Tales of the city by Armistead Maupin might work. If features an old trans lady (spoiler: >! Anna Madrigal is revealed to be trans at some point in series, I can’t remember when!<). It also features several bisexual or lesbian characters but I think they were younger!