By: Emerson

I’ve never been to NYCC but I experienced more homophobia than usual at DragonCon this year. I got shot down at an Arthurian adaptations/medieval literature panel when I was talking about Tennyson and homoeroticism in Idylls of the King. The main panelist totally dismissed it like I didn’t know what I was talking about (hello I have a degree in literature and wrote a bunch of papers on this, I just don’t have my bibliography on hand at all times) and then some old white dude in a utilikilt took the mic to bluster emotionally about how men in combat have a deep friendship connection that civilians just can’t understand and it’s NOT GAY YOU GUYS -_- I can’t decide if I’m never going back to the high fantasy track again, or if I’m going to go back on purpose and rub my little gay hands all over their stuff.

Thanks for posting some of the good stuff from NYCC. I wish we had more exclusively queer programming at DCon, but they cut the LGBT track a few years ago so it’s all kind of haphazard now.

Also, I want that Alan Turing t-shirt.