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Make The Yuletide Gay 2021
What is Make the Yuletide Gay?
While introducing m/m and f/f content into an otherwise cishet canon is one of the many delights that fandom brings into the world, this mini-challenge is made with the purpose of bringing together those who love LGBT+ characters or canon same-gender relationships and who want to write, request, and read works centered around those characters.
What counts as a canon LGBT+ character or canon relationship? For the purposes of this challenge, we rely on the honor system. If your fandom was created in a time period or in a country where coded language/actions were needed we understand that it might not be as explicit and clear-cut as one without those limitations.
Keep in mind that this challenge is geared towards those who are actively interested in canon LGBT+ characters/couples. Including a request that falls more into the headcanon or fanon category may mean that it does not catch the attention of those who are into canon content, and those who prefer fanon will likely not check out this post due to the canon focus, e.g. you may be marketing to the wrong crowd and wasting your time!
(Language copied from the original mini-challenge and reformatted to fit the modern mini-challenge format thanks to YulePorn's example.)
While introducing m/m and f/f content into an otherwise cishet canon is one of the many delights that fandom brings into the world, this mini-challenge is made with the purpose of bringing together those who love LGBT+ characters or canon same-gender relationships and who want to write, request, and read works centered around those characters.
What counts as a canon LGBT+ character or canon relationship? For the purposes of this challenge, we rely on the honor system. If your fandom was created in a time period or in a country where coded language/actions were needed we understand that it might not be as explicit and clear-cut as one without those limitations.
Keep in mind that this challenge is geared towards those who are actively interested in canon LGBT+ characters/couples. Including a request that falls more into the headcanon or fanon category may mean that it does not catch the attention of those who are into canon content, and those who prefer fanon will likely not check out this post due to the canon focus, e.g. you may be marketing to the wrong crowd and wasting your time!
How Do I Participate?
- Leave a comment on this post linking your letter if you are requesting canon LGBT+ characters or a canon same-gender relationship.
- If you don't have a letter, you can still leave prompts here, but make sure to include your AO3 name and requested fandom information.
- Add any optional details you want in the comment -- link to a ship manifesto or fanvids or gifs, give the tl;dr dynamics of your character/requested relationship, whatever.
- When it comes time to upload your works, tag with "Make the Yuletide Gay" on AO3 so interested parties can easily find it.
- Even if your recip didn't explicitly "sign up" to this post, please still tag if you're writing about a canon LGBT+ character or ship!
- There will be a comment thread where you can promo your favorite characters/relationships in the tagset to perhaps signal other people's requests even if you didn't request a canon LGBT+ character or relationship yourself this year. The best thing about Yuletide is the gifts other people can feel like our own!
- Add participation to the app so that anyone browsing will know that you're signed up for this challenge!
- Have fun!
(Language copied from the original mini-challenge and reformatted to fit the modern mini-challenge format thanks to YulePorn's example.)
Re: Canon Recs
The Arden St. Ives trilogy (How to Bang a Billionaire and its sequels) by Alexis Hall is a m/m kinky billionaire romance. Think "50 Shades but make it queer and not awful or creepy".
For Real, also by Alexis Hall, is a BDSM m/m romance. A jaded sub who is sick of the scene meets a young, would-be dom who he just can't resist.
Docile, by K.M. Szpara, is near-future speculative fiction. Debt has been made heritable and debtors' prisons have been reinstituted. To avoid prison, debtors can sell themselves into service contracts as "Dociles". Elisha sells his services as a personal Docile (aka sex slave) to Alex. What follows is a sexy, sometimes disturbing, but fascinatingly layered examination of the meaning of consent and what happens when true consent is impossible. cw: noncon.
The Charioteer, by Mary Renault, is a perennial Yuletide m/m fandom. A soldier in a hospital recovering from his injuries at Dunkirk meets and falls in love with an idealistic conscientious objector, but also stumbles onto the local gay scene where he meets some much more experienced men. This was written shortly after the war so it is very circumspect in its language but rewards close reading.
Seven of the eight K.J. Charles works in the event are queer (almost all m/m, one m/enby, one f/f) historical romances. Charles consistently includes POC rep, trans rep, and an actual engagement with historical events in her work. Band Sinister is a standalone Regency m/m romance with a significant poly (m/m/m) component. The England Series is Edwardian with one f/f and one m/m volume. The Will Darling Adventures is a delicious post-WW I spy romp (m/m with an f/f side couple). The Charm of Magpies series is Victorian m/m fantasy. The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting is a Regency m/m standalone. The Lilywhite Boys series is Victorian with one m/m and one m/f work. The Sins of the Cities series is Victorian melodrama, 2 m/m volumes and one m/enby and includes POC, neurodivergent, and disabled rep among the romantic leads.