I mostly mean in terms of kind of what we deemed to be permissible in reality, I think shifts, and I think queer people are often the people shifting that, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. My hope is that what we consider fantastical now, what we consider to be idyllic or Utopian, is eventually going to just turn into basically a contemporary story, come the future.Īnd I do literally mean hopefully, there’s like dream magic and science fiction, and all these other things, too. So, I love to see the fantasies that we’re writing now, and I love that we sort of extended into horror and all these other genres. But now we’re living in it, and I think that’s fantastic. If you wrote our story and handed that to someone a hundred years ago, it would be a fantasy novel. That is the fantasy in the mind of our ancestors and our elders that we’ve now made real that we’re living within. Things are fantasies until they’re made real by people and you could say the same thing about many queer spaces and queer liberation in general. RL: I think that queer people have an interest in fantasy because it’s really the dominion of people who have been rejected by reality and who’ve had to create their own realities out of things considered to be fantastical to everybody else.

Many of the television shows and the most popular books we all love tend to fall into the fantasy genre. NIO: Queer content and fantasy really seemed to be such a perfect match for each other.

Ryan la sala