GenresFiction
LGBTQ+
Queer lives at the centre of the story.
LGBTQ+ fiction puts queer lives at the centre, not in a subplot that exists to teach a straight character a lesson. That can mean romance, family, history, horror, or a quiet novel about work and friendship. The range is as wide as fiction itself. What the category shares is that the queer characters are not visitors in the story, and the reader is not assumed to need them translated into someone else's terms.
Coming out can be part of a book, and it doesn't have to be the whole book. Plenty of readers are looking for stories in which queer people simply get on with love, danger, ambition, or grief. Write the specificity. Community, language, sex, family rejection, family welcome, and legal reality all change with time and place, and getting that right matters more than a speech about tolerance. Joy is allowed. So is difficulty. Neither one is more authentic than the other.
The kinds of book inside it
Romance
The love story is the point, and the obstacles should come from these people's lives rather than from a generic disapproval wheeled in for tension.
Literary
Voice and interior life lead, and queer experience is examined with the same patience literary fiction gives any other life.
Young adult
Teenagers deserve stories that take their identity seriously without making the book a warning leaflet or a tragedy by default.
Historical
The period's dangers and pleasures both need research, because a queer past was not only a closet and not only a secret party either.
Speculative
Fantasy or science fiction can make room for lives the present doesn't, and it can also talk about the present by changing the furniture.
When you want a first sketch, Storywell can draft a story summary in this vein. You are still the one who writes the book. Compose an idea.