Of course there are exceptions to this such as Robin Hobb, who is amazing, but you look at the vast majority of female fantasy/sci-fi authors and in their book descriptions they always need to include romance, queer, LGBT component. It almost feels like a crutch to sell more books. I have nothing against queer/lgbt IRL, but when trying to find new books to read, it’s like the default assumption is female authors have this in their books.
You go down the GR list of top fantasy/sci-fi books and click into each one that has a tag of queer/lgbt and chances are the author is female (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7677.LGBTQ_Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy). Why?
For example from recent popular books:
The Bone Shard Daughter – Andrea Stewart
A Memory Called Empire – Arkady Martine (unnecessarily sexually explicit scene in book 2 btw – doesn’t add anything to the plot. why? pandering to sell more books?)
She Who Became the Sun – Shelley Parker-Chan
The Priory of the Orange Tree – Samantha Shannon
The Fifth Season – N.K. Jemisin
The Atlas Six – Olivie Blake
If We Were Villains – M.L. Rio
A Gathering of Shadows – V.E. Schwab (didn’t have it in book 1, but she couldn’t help it and had to put it in book 2)
by PM_ME_UR_PUPPER_PLZ