Beyond the LGBTQIA+ stereotypes

Despite the wry and self-deprecating humour, the family drama that unfolds in this book is far from amusing

Over the years, concrete efforts to publish LGBTQIA+ voices have resulted in a vast, res­ourceful body of work that helps people — queer or cishet, someone who is cisgender and heterosexual — understand and relate to experiences unique to queer individuals. One is tempted to call it mainstreaming of queer subculture. But representation within the LGBTQIA+ spectrum is skewed and, therefore, the notion of queer becoming mainstream remains in the realm of wishful thinking.
 

For one, there’s a flood of narratives by gay men for a variety of reasons. For ano­ther, select books and scholarship have un­knowingly created an environment