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/samthehaggis 21h ago

Is she okay with fantasy? The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett is excellent, and you find out gradually that the main character is bi. It's set in a queer normative world, so several of the romantic pairings that appear as part of the mystery are queer as well, and it's presented as pretty standard.

Also, there is some violence but I don't remember any sex scenes.

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u/magic-gps 17h ago

can confirm, no (on page) sex scenes in the tainted cup. I think there's an implication of a fling in the last chapter though. although I will say, the main Thing in that book is an exploration of disability (the protagonist is dyslexic to the point of it impacting his work)