A Warm Love Bytes Welcome to Lynley Wayne who is stopping over at Love Bytes with her Facing Demon’s blog tour!
She is talking about LGBT and offers a giveaway on a backlist title!
Welcome Lynley!
The “B” in LGBT
Anyone who has paid any attention to the news in the last two or three years has heard something about same-sex marriage, equality, or trans rights. What you don’t hear much about is bisexuality. I know more than one person who identifies as bisexual and yet society labels them as either gay or straight, depending on who they are involved with.
Why is that?
In a recent interview, Anna Paquin, who played Sookie Stackhouse on the HBO show True Blood, explains to Larry King about being bisexual. You can find the article and video here. It’s around the 11 minutes mark when he asks, “Are you a non-practicing bisexual?”
Paquin replies, “Well, I mean, I am married to my husband, and we are happy monogamously married.”
“But you were bisexual?” King asks.
“Well, I don’t think it’s a past tense thing… It doesn’t really work like that.”
You may wonder what this has to do with my latest book, Facing Demons. Well, it’s simple really. The character of Seth is bisexual. He’s known from the time he was a teenager that he’s attracted to both males and females. I’ve heard people say things like, “If he’s in a relationship with a man, then he’s gay.” or “I don’t understand why they don’t just come out already.” As Anna Paquin said, “It doesn’t really work like that.” Bisexuality is a real thing. Who you are involved with doesn’t change who you are attracted to. I’m happily married and yet, being married does not prevent me from being attracted to other men. What it does, is it stops me from acting on that attraction. The same goes for bisexuals. If you’re still confused on the subject, then here’s another video that spells it out in pretty clear terms.
Blurb:
At the age of fifteen, Seth Dempsey gave his heart to Cameron Reyes. Three years later, Cam shattered it when he walked away. When Cam blows back into Seth’s life years later, Seth knows he will do whatever it takes to ensure Cam doesn’t slip away again. Even if it means going up against a corrupt DEA agent and a drug cartel.
Cameron Reyes was born on the wrong side of the tracks. He fell in love with Seth, but knew the only way to keep him safe was to leave, no matter how much it hurt. Eleven years later, when his life implodes, he knows the only person he can trust is the boy whose heart he broke all those years ago.
While they fight to stay one step ahead of everyone and clear Cam’s name, can they learn to work together in order to face down the demons of the past and find the happily ever after they have dreamed of?
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Author Bio:
Lynley Wayne is the pen name of a thirty-something female living on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. When not writing, she can usually be found reading and thinking up creative ways to avoid housework. She is married to a very understanding man who doesn’t complain when she spends hours in front of the computer, or talks for hours about whatever story she’s working on, or asks random off the wall questions. He also keeps her fed on those occasions when her muse has taken over and she loses days at a time. Yeah, basically he’s vying for sainthood.
Lynley strongly believes everyone is entitled to their own version of happiness, no matter how it may differ from the norm. She writes characters she wants to read and hopes others like reading about them as much as she enjoyed writing them.
It is her hope that one day society will be able to look past the labels and see the person behind them. That they will realize we are all the same. Until that time comes, she will continue telling stories of a love others may believe is wrong, but she thinks is nothing short of beautiful.
Where you can find Lynley online
On her website: www.lynleywayne.com,
On twitter: www.twitter.com/@LynleyWayne,
Facebook personal page: www.facebook.com/lynley.wayne.1,
Facebook author page: www.facebook.com/LynleyWayne
Giveaway : digital copy backlist choice Lynley Wayne
I’ve read several blog posts and articles about bisexuals and how they are treated. I don’t know why others can’t understand the fact that a person can be attracted to both sexes. Seems like a lot of people have trouble comprehending this.
Attraction is attraction. Love is love. No one else should care.
I didn’t think sexuality and gender would still be so binary for so many people in the 21st century. Great post!
Thank you this book sounds like a one clicker to me. Lol
The Kinsey scale has been around for a long enough time that it should be obvious that some people will fall closer to the middle and be attracted to both sexes. I think our need for straightforward labels blinds us to the fact that very little in life is simple. Love should be celebrated, not marginalized.
Love the sound of this book…added to my wish list!
<3 is <3
Sounds like a awesome book.
Great post. Still surprises me that in this day and age that their are still those that believe sexuality fits into neat little bubbles.
Love the sound of the book, definitely going on the top of my tbr.
Sounds like a great book and great post. Love is love. It is what it is. What gender someone chooses to be in a relationship with is their own business and no one elses. No one should have the right to tell someone else who they can and can’t love. God forbid should anyone have a stranger following them around on a day to day basis dictating how their day should go 365 days of the year (complete chaos *smh*).
I think we put too much emphasis on labels. Why can’t people be attracted to other peoples emotions and intellect, whether male or female without them? Anyway great excerpt thanks for the chance to win
Thank you for a chance of winning a Lynley Wayne book and for this thought provoking post. I am not fond of labelling and categorising ones personal emotions or attractions.
congrats Looney589!