Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies/Peer review/Homosexuality in speculative fiction
Homosexuality in speculative fiction edit
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This passed GA a little while back, with a thorough review by a SF-knowledgable reviewer.
I've since done some expanding and more citing. Before submitting for FA (or probably A class first) i need some input from someone from the LGBT side of things. Would be good to know if i missed any gay classics etc that should be mentioned here (all the examples given have secondary sources saying something more than that they exist and were popular), and if the writing should be changed. Eg. I used LGBT as a synonym for gay, but this article doesn't discuss transgenderism, only transexualism (if i have the difference right!) in the context of the resulting sexuality, and i used gay to include lesbian etc.
Also please let me know if there are genre literary terms that cannot be understood by general readers.
And any other improvments of course! Many thanksYobmod (talk) 10:15, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- Maybe take another bash at the summary for yaoi? (We've recently rewritten the lead there.) Also, an easily-sourced example of yuri SF is Simoun (anime). -Malkinann (talk) 04:30, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
- Also, you'll need to standardise the reference formatting. ({{Citation}}, Harvard, etc...) -Malkinann (talk) 11:28, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks for rewriting the Yaoi/Yuri part! The referencing is a known job to do - i'm waiting until i've exhausted the sources, then will do it all in one go :). Are you reviewing the whole article or just the section you are expert on? (So other reviewwers know whether they should join in)15:52, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
- I've been mainly focussing on yaoi and yuri, as that's what I know most about, but I'll have a look through the whole article. There was no such thing as lesbianism in the 1920s and 30s? -Malkinann (talk) 19:45, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
- According to the sources, not in genre fiction "During this period, lesbians were almost entirely unrepresented as either heroes or villains.[20]". I will add Herland (novel) to the proto-SF, and Orlando (novel), but is nothing for the pulp section in the sources (nb: Women and gays were both marginalised then, so lesbians got double excluded.)
- I've been mainly focussing on yaoi and yuri, as that's what I know most about, but I'll have a look through the whole article. There was no such thing as lesbianism in the 1920s and 30s? -Malkinann (talk) 19:45, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks for rewriting the Yaoi/Yuri part! The referencing is a known job to do - i'm waiting until i've exhausted the sources, then will do it all in one go :). Are you reviewing the whole article or just the section you are expert on? (So other reviewwers know whether they should join in)15:52, 27 October 2008 (UTC)