The title character, Greer MacManus, experiences much of the same scenarios I personally experienced from the Prologue, in which she has her first homosexual encounter while just a child, through her realization that she is not straight and all of the implications that come with it. Queer Greer is the account of a teen who moves to a new school in a new state with her family and starts to fall for two people – one male and the other female. I longed for a character that experienced what I was experiencing.īy the time I graduated, I still had not found the literature I sought so, what did I do? I decided to write it myself. Books had always been not only a way to escape reality – which can be harsh for anyone grappling with that proverbial “closet” and when to come out of it – but also a way to learn about myself. As a lifelong reader, this was very troubling to me. When I was coming to terms with my own bisexuality back in college, almost a decade ago, I had nothing to turn to in the form of literature. Where the heck are all the bisexual novels and how is one supposed to find them? If you perform a Google search for “bisexual fiction,” believe it or not, you are redirected to a search for “lesbian fiction” instead. One title among hundreds is still not very reassuring. The one title on that first page of Amazon books regarding bisexuality that might suffice is Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu – a title that is more interview-based than literary. I don’t know about you, but those aforementioned terms wouldn’t make me feel more secure. In fact, some of the terms used to describe the titles on the first page are “gang bang,” “strap-on,” “group sex,” “hot tales” and “seduction.” Imagine happening upon these books as a teen, slowly coming to terms with your own bisexuality, and in search of a book that explains that you are normal and everything you are feeling is natural. If you type “bisexual” into, the first hits that are returned are blatantly erotica.
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