What is your worlds stance on lgbtq folks?

[Randommf]

In my world, its meant to mirror the medieval world, so broadly its mostly frowned upon or even criminal. Our continents exist here, so christianity, islam, judaism do aswell, all three are world religions although due to the size of the world none of them make up more than 7% of the world religion.

 

[pmmg]

Well. My world does not have a stance, and its not an issue i am exploring. But it would not likely have won a lot of appeal in any mainstream culture if i were.

I would hesitate to add that religion is not the only force that would work against it, plenty of cultures not affiliated found it strange and frowned upon.

Much like our own world, i am sure it exists, that some cultures are more open to it than others, and various cultures compete. But i dont think it would have won mass appeal in any (featured) dominate culture in my world.

 

[casval]

One of the projects I'm working on is also based on a late medieval/early modern England, so there's institutional homophobia in the laws - and more traditional people are very opposed to it, while others are more 'well as long as you keep it to yourself'-types. Not much in the way of acceptance, even the people who are LGBTQ+ do not necessarily accept it about themselves or in others.

The story's protagonist is a lesbian, so while the injustice she is opposing in the main plot is enclosure (the privatization of previously common land, like pastures), I wanted to include a general sense that she grew up constantly having to advocate for herself.

 

[skip.knox]

My world is also alt-medieval. Because I posit the survival of the Roman Empire as well as of polytheism, there's no legal prohibition. At least among humans.

Dwarves, elves, ogres, giants, pixies, sprites, orcs, trolls ... I haven't addressed the matter for those people. The whole matter of jurisdiction is fiendishly complicated in Altearth.

So, my world doesn't have a stance. It has a whole bunch of stances, which vary by place and time and even by circumstances because, as it turns out, dwarves and elves and the rest are almost as inconsistent as humans.

 

[spidercrabb4]

I have three gay characters. One is a major antagonist, and the other two are background characters. In my world, people simply don’t judge it. At most, if someone mentions that they’re gay, people might find it mildly interesting because it’s less common than being straight.

My world has a medieval fantasy time setting, but it’s pretty different in almost every other way.

 

[ThinkerX]

The main nation of my main world is puritanical - divorces are hard to get, though nobles of both sexes often have affairs. Gays and lesbians are technically illegal. Still, I do have one prominent lesbian character. (A high-ranking noblewoman and war hero.)

Outside of that nation, matters are far less rigid.

 

[Mad Swede]

Well, in my setting there is nothing in the law covering LGBTQ+people or acts. So technically these things aren't illegal. That doesn't mean these things are always seen as socially acceptable. There are a number of LGBTQ+ people in my stories and, as in real life, their degree of openess varies depending on where they live, what they do and on the level of trust in their relationships with other people.

 

[Insolent Lad]

When more than a few of the gods are LGBTQ+ (or the equivalent in their setting), humans are likely to be accepting of it. This hasn't prevented a few intolerant sects and societies from developing but they tend to be outside the mainstream. And the elves, of course, are a bit notorious (whether deserved or not) for having sex with anyone.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Depends on the series. In our Urban Fantasy series, the Books of Binding, Seahaven is about 160 miles from Seattle. It's a pretty granola town, similar vibe as Seattle but with a much higher homicide rate. All three of our current MMC's are bi, two rabbits are a rabbit-specific sort of trans called a hutchjack. Breeding jacks are violent, highly territorial, and to be kept out of scent from each other, so they can't live in the communal hutch. Hutchjacks are far less territorial, but laying a rude finger on one of their buns and they have a kick that can put a grown human male through a wall.

In the Epic Fantasy series we're bringing out next, The Blades of Glass, there are five empires mobilizing for a world war, and dozens of different populations, all with cultures and faiths that see Queer through a kaleidoscope of consequences.

 

[ThrillhoBaggins]

I guess it sorta depends. I use a multiverse, so, technically, every sort of stance imaginable exists.

 

[Karlin]

I've run into this issue with my current work, a time travel story involving Michelangelo. "Everybody knows" that he was gay, but in reaity many of us want him to be gay. It's not that clear that he was. Not to mention that it is very problematic projecting modern ideas of sexuality on 16th century Catholic Italy. What does it even mean to say "so and so was gay" when he lived in 1550?

 

[Orc Knight]

It exists, some nations embrace it as just normal and sometimes even divine and some less so. But it's fairly normal and not really remarked upon. I also don't stick to general European style fantasy.

 

[Malik]

My world is extremely sex-positive. The year is made up of 4, 104-day months, and everything is tied to the lunar calendar, as on Earth: tides, crops, reproductive cycles. The reason this is important is that women still have the same biologically fertile window of only a few days, so everybody screws everybody nonstop just to keep the population going. This has developed into a society where literally anything goes and nobody cares who's doing what to whom as long as everyone involved is a consenting adult. Sex to them is like asking someone to go for a run or go to the gym with you. It's a way to blow off steam and kill an otherwise dull afternoon.

 

[Filifjonken]

Mine has no bigotry against the LGBTQ+. I saw no reason to include it, and I didn't feel like it either.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

I've run into this issue with my current work, a time travel story involving Michelangelo. "Everybody knows" that he was gay, but in reaity many of us want him to be gay. It's not that clear that he was. Not to mention that it is very problematic projecting modern ideas of sexuality on 16th century Catholic Italy. What does it even mean to say "so and so was gay" when he lived in 1550?

I know you know the answer to this, Karlin, but I'm going to explain for the rest of the class. For the wealthy and the landed and the male few would object to who a male is penetrating, as long as family responsibilities are met. Note the caveat. The men who got in trouble were the ones catching instead of pitching, nearly exclusively. Michelangelo was a known patron of boys wanting to learn from him. Not all of them were artists, but most were. It was understood that these boys would step up to the pitch when they became too old for patronage. The ones who didn't were persecuted, prosecuted, and executed in a variety of imaginative ways.

Women were a bit different. Also, as long as she was keeping up with expectations no one looked too closely at a favorite maid or best friend.

 

[ThrillhoBaggins]

Sometimes it would play out the way it actually did and other times there would have been no backlash against it. I really like messing with the historical timeline like that.