I got started writing GLBT stories in the 1980s, before I had written anything sexually explicit (too shy!). I “came out” by going to the local gay bar in 1982, and then noticed that I couldn’t find much lesbian fiction – and not much for/about gay men that didn’t look porny (descriptions of sex, very light on plot and characterization). I wrote 10 lesbian stories which were published between hot-pink covers as a book named Secrets of the Invisible World (after the title story) in 1988 by a one-woman press that went out of business by 1990.
Meanwhile, I got some positive reviews in small lesbian-feminist journals, and several friends told me they wanted more sex in my fiction! At the Third International Feminist Book Fair in Montreal in 1988, I saw some calls-for-submissions for lesbian erotica (a very controversial genre during the Feminist Sex Wars) and thought I would try it. The novelty hasn’t worn off yet.

Your book, Obsession, sonds very interesting. What got you interested in writing GBLT stories?

Thanks for being here.

Raine D.