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Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Document Type
Panel Discussion
Event Website
https://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-53.htm
Start Date
2-8-2024 2:30 PM
End Date
2-8-2024 3:20 PM
Description
This panel was inspired by several things coming together. An awareness of Eleanor Arnason’s pioneering work in including LGBTQ+ characters in her novels, such as To the Resurrection Station, and some of her Lydia Duluth stories, and particularly in Ring of Swords and the other Hwarhath Stories, where this focus is a major theme. Then, there were the increasing number of books taking up these themes on the long and short lists for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, mirroring the changes that have occurred over the past few decades, so that early in our history these themes were not generally present, but this year nearly all of the finalists on all three lists feature LGBTQ+ characters and/or themes, sometimes incidentally, and sometimes as a major focus of the book. Our panelists include an earlier explorer in an MFA finalist from a couple of decades ago, and at least one author of a current MFA finalist.
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Current LGBTQ+ Aspects in SF&F
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This panel was inspired by several things coming together. An awareness of Eleanor Arnason’s pioneering work in including LGBTQ+ characters in her novels, such as To the Resurrection Station, and some of her Lydia Duluth stories, and particularly in Ring of Swords and the other Hwarhath Stories, where this focus is a major theme. Then, there were the increasing number of books taking up these themes on the long and short lists for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, mirroring the changes that have occurred over the past few decades, so that early in our history these themes were not generally present, but this year nearly all of the finalists on all three lists feature LGBTQ+ characters and/or themes, sometimes incidentally, and sometimes as a major focus of the book. Our panelists include an earlier explorer in an MFA finalist from a couple of decades ago, and at least one author of a current MFA finalist.
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythcon/mc53/schedule/2
