Contemporaries have already gotten away with it.:) Suzanne Brockmann has a long-running series about an elite private security firm that had a gay supporting character, who, over the course of several books, falls in love with an actor. While they didn't get their own full-length book, they did get a novella about their wedding.
And last year JR Ward released Lover at Last, a gay vampire romance that hit the bestsellers list. (If you're not familiar with Ward, she writes a vampire series in which the heroes have names like Rhage, Tohrment, Vishous, etc. They are, uh, not my cup of tea.)
I haven't heard of it happening in a historical romance yet, but it's only a matter of time.
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Contemporaries have already gotten away with it.:) Suzanne Brockmann has a long-running series about an elite private security firm that had a gay supporting character, who, over the course of several books, falls in love with an actor. While they didn't get their own full-length book, they did get a novella about their wedding.
And last year JR Ward released Lover at Last, a gay vampire romance that hit the bestsellers list. (If you're not familiar with Ward, she writes a vampire series in which the heroes have names like Rhage, Tohrment, Vishous, etc. They are, uh, not my cup of tea.)
I haven't heard of it happening in a historical romance yet, but it's only a matter of time.