- YA books with with queer characters in the background that help round out the world
It's the teensiest bit subtextual, but as subtle as a brick to the head-- The So You Want to Be a Wizard series has the wizarding mentors, Tom and Carl,to Our Heroes, Nita, Darine and Kit.
They live together and they are "two tall, good looking men, one with a mustache, one without; Carl a native New Yorker and Tom an unrepentant Californian. They had all the things their neighbors had -- mortgages and phone bills and pets and occasional fights. They mowed the lawn and went to work like everyone else (at least Carl did; Tom worked at home)."
Later one is talking to one of the young wizards about being 'out' (as a Wizard): "Being out in the open," Tom said, "causes even more problems than 'passing'... as you'll have noticed. But the truth works best."
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Date: 2010-09-05 03:12 pm (UTC)It's the teensiest bit subtextual, but as subtle as a brick to the head-- The So You Want to Be a Wizard series has the wizarding mentors, Tom and Carl,to Our Heroes, Nita, Darine and Kit.
They live together and they are "two tall, good looking men, one with a mustache, one without; Carl a native New Yorker and Tom an unrepentant Californian. They had all the things their neighbors had -- mortgages and phone bills and pets and occasional fights. They mowed the lawn and went to work like everyone else (at least Carl did; Tom worked at home)."
Later one is talking to one of the young wizards about being 'out' (as a Wizard): "Being out in the open," Tom said, "causes even more problems than 'passing'... as you'll have noticed. But the truth works best."