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Game of Thrones Star Maisie Williams ‘Excited’ to Portray a Queer Superhero

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Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams has said she is “excited” to play a queer superhero in love in upcoming X-Men spinoff The New Mutants. The film will feature a relationship between superheroes Rahne Sinclair (Williams) and Danielle Moonstar, played by Blu Hunt. Speaking on a panel at Comic Con @ Home, Williams spoke of the importance of representing same-sex love on-screen. “It was really wonderful to be able to see a relationship look like this,” Williams said. Full Story From Pink News

Tomb Raider Comic Writer Tried to Make Lara Croft Explicitly Queer

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Lara Croft

The creator of a Tomb Raider comic tried “so hard” to make Lara Croft explicitly queer – but a planned kiss somehow became just a hug instead. Tomb Raider: Inferno co-writer Jackson Lanzing revealed the abandoned plot point on Twitter, but declined to explain why Lara Croft’s queerness ended up on the scrap heap. Queer fans of the video games have pined for a romance between Lara and her best friend Sam for years, while many believe their relationship is a classic example of queercoding. But the romance has never become canon – even though comic book writers tried to … Read more

REVIEW: Merchants of Milan – Edale Lane

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Merchants of Milan

Genre: Historical, Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: FF/Lesbian Reviewer: Devon Get It On Amazon About The Book Three powerful merchants, two independent women in love, one masked vigilante.  Love blooms between Florentina and Maddie, but Florentina’s role as the vigilante Night Flyer could lead to her death and Maddie’s broken heart. Florentina, set on revenge for her father’s murder, creates an alter-ego known as the Night Flyer. Madelena, whose husband was also murdered, hires Florentina as a tutor for her children and love blossoms between them. However, Florentina’s vendetta is fraught with danger, and surprising developments threaten both women’s lives.  The … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Hemispheres – Mark Everglade

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Hemispheres - Mark Everglade

QSFer Mark Everglade has a new lesbian/non-binary cyberpunk book out: “Hemispheres.” Light is currency. Light is big business on Evig Natt, where it’s always dark and fireflies are the only legal source of light. They’re also used as currency, leaving the impoverished to live in the shadows of the wealthy.  Severum Rivenshear is hired to stop the Kontractor, Thalassa, a woman speeding the planet’s rotation to bring light to rich and poor alike, until his beliefs shatter while witnessing the abuses of power. In a time of war, they must bring balance to the hemispheres, even if Severum must betray … Read more

Velma Was a Lesbian in Original 2002 Scooby Doo Script

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Filmmaker James Gunn has revealed that he was blocked from depicting Velma as a lesbian in the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo film. The film’s writer and director spilled the tea about behind-the-scenes wrangling over the camp classic, which starred Linda Cardellini as Velma Dinkley. Responding to a fan who urged him to “make our live-action lesbian Velma dreams come true”, Gunn revealed he had depicted the character as gay in his original script. Full Story from Pink News

Late Pokémon Writer Believed Pokémon Professor Ivy was a Lesbian

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Brock has remained a constant in the Pokémon anime series as one of Ash Ketchum’s travel companions, but one of the hit anime show’s writers has hinted at a possible LGBT+ plot twist about his life. The 15-year-old Pokémon breeder and former Pewter Gym Leader is known for many things. Cooking food. An intense fascination with rocks with arms. Singing disturbingly intense love songs towards police officers and healthcare workers. But in a book penned by one of the original screenwriters of the Orange Islands chapter of the first series, Takeshi Shudo, believed that Professor Ivy was a lesbian. Full … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: 990066 – R. Cane

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QSFer R. Cane has a new lesbian social sci fi book out: “990066.” Novella: 990066. Strange times after a sickness leaves everyone mostly indoors, living lives of limited movement. Barely on the edge of adulthood when it started, a young woman lives, learns in the only way she can figure – vicariously – through her customer shopping lists. Imagining their lives, meals, sussing details from what they buy, and don’t, getting lost in their lives to help get through being so restricted in her own. Until reality storms fantasy and she is faced with some very real choices in a … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: A Touch of Ice – Nita Round

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A Touch of Ice - Nita Round

QSFer Nita Round has a new queer steampunk fantasy out, The Towers of the Earth Book 4: “A Touch of Ice.” To have a future, they must face their past. Magda, Ascara and Lucinda must draw upon the strength of their trinity to seek out the truths of the past that hold the key to their future. They travel north, to Magda’s place of birth amongst the Oceanics. For Magda, this is an unwelcoming place, a reminder that she was banished and dealt a cruel fate. Named Stoner and landlocked, for an Oceanic this is a dishonour and a fate … Read more

ANOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: The Harbinger – Mary Eicher

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Mary Eicher has a new FF paranormal book out, Artemis book one: “The Harbinger.” In a picturesque California town, the deafening sound of bells brings dozens of people to their knees. Three days later a horrific accident claims their lives. Among the dead is the twin brother of Artemis Andronikos, a beautiful attorney, who abandons the ill-fated vacation and returns home to grieve. Her mourning is interrupted by Lucy Breem a reporter who suspects a connection between the strange bell sound and subsequent deaths. Disturbed by the possibility that the phenomenon had presaged her brother’s death, Artemis agrees to join … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Duality – Chloe Spencer

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Duality - Chloe Spencer

QSFer Chloe Spencer has a new bi/lesbian sci fi/paranormal/fantasy book out: “Duality.” A dead-end job, a slob for a boyfriend, and neglectful friends: this is Kat Wallace’s life. Ever since her best friend got married, Kat has been struggling to find happiness. All that changes when she meets Melody Adebayo, a field agent with the mysterious transdimensional company Clockwork & Associates. Melody’s job is to send the consciousness of others to a scarier dimension in order to make them kinder and more grateful for their lives, which, in theory, will influence them to do good. But when Kat is sent … Read more