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NEW RELEASE: Friends For Robots – Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

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Friends For Robots - Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor has a new queer sci fi collection out: Friends for Robots. In this upbeat, positive collection of SFF short stories from Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, author of So You Want to Be A Robot, you’ll find hope, humor, friendship—and of course, robots. Have you heard the one about… …a neural network who wants humans to drink more water? …a person stranded on Mars with only an obsolete robotic toy? …a cyborg caught in a time loop with a frightened ship? …a self-aware mech who doesn’t want to be a weapon anymore? …an AI sent into the deepest part … Read more

MOVIES: Marisa Tomei Begged Marvel to Give Spider-Man’s Aunt May a Girlfriend

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Marisa Tomei - Spider-Man

Spider-Man: No Way Home star Marisa Tomei has said what we’re all thinking: Aunt May should be queer. Tomei’s May has always been the cool aunt, and now, the actor has revealed how she rallied for the character to be given a girlfriend. In the Spider-Man Homecoming trilogy, we meet May some time after losing her husband, Uncle Ben. She begins dating Happy Hogan in the second film, Far From Home, but Tomei feels their on-off relationship is one of convenience. “I really feel that their relationship is more off than on,” she told Geeks of Color. “I think they’re … Read more

NEW RELEASE: Elfed in New York: Intern – Erik Schubach

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Elfed In New York - Erik Schubach

QSFer Erik Schubach has a new FF urban fantasy book out: Elfed in New York: Intern. Nineteen years ago, Evander Laun and Natalia Havashire went on the air throughout the world on almost every news channel simultaneously, to reveal to the human race that Elves walked among us. It is the most-watched historical event in modern times. An aspiring investigative journalist, Killishia Renner, finds out with the rest of the world that she is an Elf unbeknownst to her, when she manifests Elvish physical traits on the air during the Tree Lighting ceremony in Rockerfeller Center in New York. It … Read more

NEW RELEASE: The God Painter – Jessica Pegis

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The God Painter - Jessica Pegis

QSFer Jessica Pegis has a new queer sci-fi book out: The God Painter. In the year 2035, humanity is rescued from a lethal solar flare by seven mysterious beings and transported across the universe to the uninhabited planet Ansar. Earth’s major cities are recreated, and a stunned but thankful humanity mostly carries on with life and society. But is everything as it appears? Just who are the semi-omniscient beings who rescued them? What do they really want? And to what secret place do they retreat every night? With the appearance of the seven, all the old divisions concerning gender, privilege, … Read more

NEW RELEASE: Twenty-Five to Life – R.W.W. Greene

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Twenty-Five to Life

QSFer R.W.W. Greene has a new queer apocalyptic cyberpunk book out: Twenty-Five To Life. Life goes on for the billions left behind after the humanity-saving colony mission to Proxima Centauri leaves Earth orbit … but what’s the point? Julie Riley is two years too young to get out from under her mother’s thumb, and what does it matter? She’s over-educated, under-employed, and kept mostly numb by her pharma emplant. Her best friend, who she’s mostly been interacting with via virtual reality for the past decade, is part of the colony mission to Proxima Centauri. Plus, the world is coming to … Read more

TV: Marvel’s Hawkeye on Disney Plus Introduces New Queer Black Female Character

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Hawkeye - Bombshell

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has welcomed a new queer character in the most low-key way on the new Disney Plus series Hawkeye. In episode four, Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) – aka Hawkeye – tasked his young protégé, Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), with tracking down the trick arrows that he used to fight live-action role-playing (LARP) enthusiasts earlier in the season. Kate encountered off-duty New York Police Department officer Wendy Conrad (Adetinpo Thomas) who is training alongside the LARPers in the park. The young hero eventually enlisted the help of Conrad and others in the guild to help retrieve the missing … Read more

COMIC BOOKS: Wonder Woman Has a Girlfriend in new Series

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Wonder Woman - Dark Knights of Steel

Wonder Woman and Princess Zala are revealed to be in a same-sex relationship in DC’s new medieval, fantasy series “Dark Knights of Steel”. (DC/Dark Knights of Steel #2) Wonder Woman shares a beautiful kiss with her girlfriend, Superman’s sister, in the new comic series Dark Knights of Steel. The DC Comics limited series is set in a fantastical universe that vaguely resembles medieval times. Dark Knights of Steel #2 begins with Lois Lane arriving by ship on Themyscira, the island home of the Amazons, to deliver bad news to Wonder Woman and princess Zala of the House El – the … Read more

NEW RELEASE: Redshift – R.M. Olson

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Redshift - R.M. Olson

QSFer R.M. Olson has a new queer space opera out, Singularity book 1: Redshift. It appears out of nowhere—one moment the sky is empty, the next, there’s a rent in the fabric of space itself. And nothing in the system will ever be the same. In the far reaches of the Rim Mountains, itinerant field-scientist Aran Romeu is searching desperately for the cure to an incurable disease—one that’s slowly killing his best friend. He’s sworn to do whatever it takes to find it. But when the portal opens, and something comes through, he realizes that ‘whatever it takes’ will involve … Read more

NEW RELEASE: The Demon Equilibrium – Cathy Pegau

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The Demon Equilibrium - Cathy Pegau

QSFer Cathy Pegau has a new FF paranormal historical romance out: The Demon Equilibrium. Grace Carter, a “source” of magic, has spent the last nine months searching for Maggie Mulvaney, her “catalyst.” The joy of reuniting with her partner—and her lover—is thwarted by her worst fear: Maggie remembers neither Grace nor their life together in the Order of Saint Teresa, the centuries-old organization that trained them to be the strongest demon-hunting duo in generations. When Maggie and Grace unexpectedly come face-to-face with the demon Horde, they are forced to team up once again. As they begin to piece their lives … Read more

New Disney Text to Speech Voices on TikTok Won’t Say Gay, Lesbian or Queer

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TikTok Disney Voices

Disney fans were delighted when text-to-speech character voices were introduced to TikTok, until they noticed some strange restrictions on LGBT+ terms. The text-to-speech voices, including characters Rocket Racoon (Guardians of the Galaxy), C-3PO (Star Wars) and Stitch (friend of Lilo), were added to TikTok on Disney Plus Day on Friday (12 November). But TikTok users soon noticed that, unlike all other voices on the app, the Disney characters refused to say the words “queer”, “lesbian” and “gay”. If included in the text, the characters will just skip the word, for example when one TikTok user made various voices say “gay … Read more