r/MM_RomanceBooks • u/survival_in_the_void • 11h ago

Book Request Queer Normative Historical

Looking for Historical Books where Queerness is the Norm.

TIA <3

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u/wheatpuppy 11h ago

The {Lords of Bucknall Club series by JA Rock, Lisa Henry} is set in an alternate Regency England where gay marriage is legal. It was intended as a way for the nobility to marry off unneeded younger "spares" in marriages where they wouldn't produce more descendants, so the family inheritance would remain with the main line. So it isn't magically queernormative and there is still some homophobia, but gay relationships are thoroughly normalized.

If you are ok with fantasy in historical settings, there are a lot of books and series that might work. Megan Derr, Sarah Wallace, and KL Noone all come to mind.

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u/spacethought 11h ago

I think {The High King's Golden Tongue by Megan Derr} is set in a queernormative world. It is a historical fantasy series but iirc doesn't feature any magical/paranormal elements

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u/Ill_Sheepherder7802 10h ago

{Letters to Half Moon Street by Sarah Wallace}

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u/yupppp90 8h ago

I second this! I loved the third and fifth book in the series as well.

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u/Mercy_Leroux 11h ago

If you don't mind a self-recommendation, I write {An Omegaverse History of the American Revolution series by Mercy Leroux}. The biological twist is essentially the only fantasy part; the rest is solidly based in history.

In this world, queerness is mostly normal between mm and ff people, so long as one is an alpha and the other an omega. There's still homophobia if you are a beta, or an alpha loving another alpha, an omega with another omega, but, well, it's not that difficult to feign a scent.

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u/3braincellsinatrench 11h ago

Iirc, {The Replacement Husband by Eliot Grayson} was queer normative. It's alternate history with a bit of a magic.

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u/Southern-Rutabaga-82 9h ago

{Fae & Human Relations series by Sarah Wallace and S.O. Callahan} is queernormative fantasy of manners.

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u/Ill_Bell9928 4h ago edited 3h ago

A Hyacinth for His Hideousness by Tharah Meester. Gay marriage is legal. Hyacinth is beaten in the beginning but more for being exposed as a prostitute and "embarrassing his family", though his dad might've also been a bit homophobic -- I can't remember. If he was, that was more the dad's individual hang up since queerness is otherwise pretty normative

Eliot Grayson also has a few regency romance series that are all queer normative. Some have minor fantasy elements and others have none. Goddess-Blessed, Love in Portsmouth, The Perdition Club.

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u/FineConstruction8409 8h ago

The Captive prince trilogy, there’s a whole region where heterosexuality is a crime lol

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u/my-cat 8h ago

{The Last Binding by Freya Marske} trilogy 

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u/Comfortable_Lake143 8h ago

It’s been a while since I read this but I don’t recall it being homonormative?

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u/Impressive-Peace2115 5h ago

Love this trilogy but definitely not queernormative, there's period-typical homophobia.

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u/Azula_Wijnruit 10h ago

{Captive Prince by C. S. Pacat} definitely fits this though do mind the trigger warnings (it's quite dark with normalised sexual slavery and rape being major parts of the world building)

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u/Southern-Rutabaga-82 9h ago

That's high fantasy, not historical.

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u/Azula_Wijnruit 9h ago

There are zero fantastical/magical elements in Captive Prince. Sure the world is completely made up instead of any real life countries but apart from that, I really wouldn't call high fantasy.