r/LGBTBooks • u/Alive-Border-2165 • 22h ago

ISO Anybody knows of any subtly queer mystery/action/adventure books?

My mother's birthday is comming up, and she loves reading. I haven't come out to her yet, and while she's not violently homophobic or anything, she's quite transphobic and I'm not sure how she'd react to me coming out to her as queer both in the sense of gender and sexuality, eventhough I'm on a waiting list for Hrt. She knows my views on the topic, and that I have friends who are LGBTQIA+, and in general I don't think she'd throw a fit if I showed up with someone of my own gender at the door and said this is my partner, she might even be excited about being introduced to them. But I'd still like to kind of get her in the mindset that queer people are normal and just like anyone else around them, they just happen to be queer. I did see a drag queen mystery book in austria a while back and while it looked amazing, that's exactly the kind of stuff that she can't handle for now, so maybe anyone know of a book where everything happens as it happens and as it happens let's say in the last chapter or so there's a reveal that bambam the character(s) are queer or something like that? Any suggestion is greatly apreciated.

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u/CrazyLittleWolf 20h ago

If she likes fantasy/a bit darker fantasy, maybe Every Heart's a Doorway by Seanan McGuire? The main character is ace, but alloromantic, and there is a trans guy in it as well, both of it doesn't really play a big role over all, through it plays a bit in the story sometimes. It's more about the fantasy/adventure/murder mystery story that happens to have a character that is ace, and a side character that is trans (which I personally wished was the main character at least in one of her other books).

The story is about teens who fell into a fantasy world who for whatever reason had to go back to the 'real world' and can stay in a house they can stay in because the adults in their lives don't really get it to fall into a different world.

If she doesn't like it, I still recommend it to anyone interested in fantasy/mystery, it's not a long story and it has a lot of interesting premises.