Queer Love Interests of Color and the White Gaze
5 min readNov 4, 2019
The recent trend of writing LGBTQ+ love interests of color might be more harmful than you’d think.
LGBTQ+ stories have historically been (primarily) white tales. While the presence of queer characters of color has increased from “next to none” to “well there’s definitely more than two” in recent years, LGBTQ+ characters of color still cannot hold a torch to the prevalence and…
