Gay lycanthropy
Tony Santorella ~ Bored Queer Werewolf
Synopsis
Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about with his friends Nik and Darby. He’s been struggling to manage his transition to adulthood almost as much as his monthly transitions to a werewolf.
Really, he is not fantastic at the whole werewolf thing, and his recent murderous slip-ups have caught the attention of Tyler, a Millennial were-mentor determined to take the mythological world by storm. Tyler has got a arrange, and weirdly his self-help punditry actually encourages Brian to shape up and to stop accidently marking out guys who ghosted him on Grindr as potential monthly victims.
But as Brian gets closer to Tyler’s pack, and alienated from Nik and Darby, he realises that Tyler’s expansion plans are much more nefarious than a little lupine enlightenment…
Review
A little book with a huge message.
Bored Gay Werewolf is – shockingly – about a bored, male lover werewolf, but it’s so much more than its title. It’s also about self-acceptance, found family and being your authentic self.
Brian is fed up, stuck and single. He also happens to be a w
As far as I can tell, Marie de France wrote the first queer werewolf story in history. Little is known about the 12th century, Normandy-born English writer, but she did marker a series of 12 short passionate lais, Anglo-Norman passion tales with fantastical elements. Among stories about cheating kings, horny knights, slutty beauties, polygamist noblewomen, sex and murder is the tale of Bisclavret, the lycanthropic love of the king.
The lais starts with a happily married Breton knight. He and his wife treasure each other, but she worries when he disappears into the woods for days at a time, returning “happy and gay.” What double life does he lead? Does he have another lover?
She prods and pries, and the nobleman fears how she’ll react if he tells her, before he finally relents. The nobleman explains that he is “bisclavret”— the writer compares this term to the Norman lore of the “garwolf,” a savage beast that, “eats men, wreaks havoc, does no good / Living and roaming in the deep wood.”
A man lost to his primal urges, forsaking his wife and disappearing into the woods, you say? The erotic connotations are palpable . . .
No doub
Mel Mystery is the host of the Discovering the Male Mysteries podcast for gay and bisexual Pagan men. Topics discussed on the show have included gay and bisexual deities, gay clone culture, mentorship, gay men who are over the traditional same-sex attracted scene, gay and bi men’s rites of corridor, rainbows, unicorns, and lgbtq+ werewolves. Mel is in the process of turning some of his present material and research into books – notably his continuing research into werewolves, as well as homosexual and bi men’s rites of passage. Mel also dabbles in photography, and while most of his photography falls into the male beefcake genre, he has done some sets related to mythology and folklore and hopes to do more of these sets in the future.
Mel spent his college years in the early 1990s as an activist in his college’s gay and lesbian student union. He was instrumental in making many positive changes on his campus for the LGBT cause. At one point his life was even threatened and his car was vandalized. At this time, he also served on the board of his local LGBT pride organization which organized summer and winter self-acceptance festivals. After graduating, Mel briefly canvassed for the Human Rights Campaign and also volunte
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Brian, an aimless slacker in his twenties, has been struggling to handle his transition to adulthood almost as much as his monthly transitions to a werewolf. Really, he’s not great at the whole werewolf thing, and his recent murderous snaccidents have got his finest friends Nik and Darby suspicious, and caught the attention of Tyler, a hot were-entrepreneur with a start-up idea for the mythological wellness market.
Tyler wants Brian to be part of his vision, but as Brian gets closer to Tyler and drifts away from Nik and Darby, he realises that Tyler’s plans are much more nefarious than a little lupine enlightenment. To save the world from another rich boy-boss, Brian’s going to need his friends, a steampunk crossbow, and to learn how to be comfortable in his own, shaggy, werewolf pelt…
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Readers love Bored Male lover Werewolf
‘Feels like Buffy meets Euphoria’
‘With a title prefer Bored Gay Werewolf, you bet I’m gonna wanna read it’
‘Sarcastic and hilarious’
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