Theme & Character Lists: Explicitly Homophobic SF

see also: anti-feminist novels

Works: Stories & Novels

• Burgess, Anthony. The Wanting Seed (1962) (homophobic dystopia of a future england in which homosexuality, a force against nature, reigns supreme, causing the dissolution of society)
• Cooper, Edmund. Gender Genocide. New York: Ace Books, 1972. anti-feminist sf
• Janifer, Laurence M. "The Gift" (originally published in Dystopian Visions, edited by Roger Elwood (1975)) (A story about two gay men in a future in which Gay Liberation has succeeded. People are now entranced by the equivalent of a fuck-doll. Lots of rambling paragraphs about gender identification and "introjection," whatever that is. I might be wrong but it seems the fuck doll takes on the opposite sex's gender and somehow it is implied that The Being (the fuck-doll) is terminally confused by this and therefore must kill its homosexual partners. Pretty unpleasant and silly story, actually. -- lq, 6/29/00; i include it as a question more than as a diagnosis -- lq, 6/17/01)
• Kettle, Pamela. The Day of the Women (1969) (lesbian attractions are hinted at, and disparaged, in Britain after the women take over. homophobic.)
• Maine, Charles Eric. Alph (also published as World Without Men) (1958) (a world of perverted sick lesbians may yet be saved by cloning a male. homophobic badly written sf)
• Slesar, Henry. "Ersatz" (first published in Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions, 1967) (a nicely homophobic little tale in which we see how horrible endless war is, because it's destroyed all the good food and all the good fuckable women, leaving good soldiers only hairy-legged transsexuals to fuck - what a nightmare )
• Wood, Bridget. one of those two novels; wasn't primarily about homophobia but the homophobia was striking, unnecessary, and unpleasant -- egregious.

notes

This is SF/F/U/H with a clear homophobic agenda or thrust. This includes numerous "sex war" novels in which a female from an all-female lesbian society encounters a man or men and realizes the "rightness" of heterosex. Two central criteria:

• homophobia must be a central or particularly egregious aspect of the novel; and
• homophobia must be the discernible authorial perspective