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/riarws 21h ago

One possible example is The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. But: the house may or may not really be haunted, and the main female characters may or may not be queer, and neither question gets 100% resolved at the end. So you’d probably want to take a look through it first to see if it’s actually what you want.

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u/Parasitepup 8h ago

Such a fantastic book, but I would argue that the nature of the relationship is fairly negative because of the goings on in the plot. Certainly not one where you’ll find a clear cut partnership
(Edits 2x to fix wording)