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fiercelydreamed QueerlyGen is a community dedicated to gen works featuring sexual and gender minority characters. For fan works, this includes characters the work's creator interprets as sexual or gender minorities, regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation in canon. We want to create a space where people can tap into the rich range of experiences that queer and genderqueer people have, which extend far beyond simply who we fall in love with or who we take to bed. We want to challenge the idea that works featuring people who aren't heteronormative or cisgendered are automatically "adult" or unsuitable for some audiences.
We want a place where we can find fiction, art, poetry, music, and media where we recognize ourselves. Original works, fan and transformative works, and works featuring real people are all equally welcome on this community.
At QueerlyGen, we've made a decision to be as inclusive as possible when it comes to the works posted here. We believe that setting a lot of inflexible rules can diminish the opportunity for creativity, and for viewers to stumble onto something they weren't looking for but might love. This means that there will be content here that not all viewers may expect or may wish to see. To avoid the need to do a lot of oversight and strict enforcement, we've set up these basic guidelines to help creators and viewers of works take responsibility for their own participation. We ask that everyone take the time to read these before posting any works to this community.
Definitions.
These definitions were developed based on discussions held earlier on this community, with a few judgment calls made by the moderators when necessary.
Sexual minority: someone whose sexual preferences are considered nontraditional, marginalized, or marked in their own cultural context (or in the cultural context of the work's creator). Some examples of sexual minority identities include, but are not limited to, those organized around:
- sexual orientation (homosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, pansexual, asexual)
- sexual practices (kinky, fetishist, BDSM practitioner)
- number of partners (poly)
- someone who is questioning their identification with any sexual minority identity
Gender minority: someone whose gender identity and/or physically embodied sex do not conform to cultural norms of "maleness" or "femaleness" in their own cultural context (or in the cultural context of the work's creator), or whose gender identities and bodies do not align in ways that conform to those cultural norms. Examples of gender minorities include, but are not limited to, people who identify as:
- transgendered, transsexual, genderqueer, intersexed, androgynous
Gen: a work that does not focus on romantic or sexual relationships, and where the creator considers any such relationships to be secondary within the work. This definition does not exclude:
- Works featuring characters who are in romantic or sexual relationships (whether canonical or non-canonical) -- provided the point of the story is not to bring the characters together or to highlight the romantic/sexual dynamics of their relationship.
- Explicit sexual content -- however, we ask creators to be aware that such content strains the definition of gen for many viewers at the comm, and to carefully consider the prominence and use of sexual content in works they intend to post here.
- Content that is not appropriate for all ages -- we provide guidelines for creators to use in labeling content some viewers may not wish to see.
Deciding which works to view.
The definitions the community uses allow creators to be the primary judges of their works' content. In return, we have asked creators to use headers and tags to provide enough information that you as a viewer can make informed decisions about whether or not to view certain works.
Works posted to this community use the following basic header format:
(Subject line): Foodfight, with Incidental Accompaniment [Original art by Fiercelydreamed]
Title: Foodfight, with Incidental Accompaniment
Creator: <user name=fiercelydreamed>
Universe: Original
Type of work: Art (pen and ink illustration, digital collage)
Contains: Mild nudity but no sexual content.
Summary and/or notes: The Wenatche Gay Men's Acapella Choir has an annual family summer barbecue. Every year, they purchase six dozen assorted pies, eight packs of balloons, a crate of whipped cream, and an entire flat of paper towels. This is why. Big thanks to K. for the concrit and to M., he knows why.
Title: Foodfight, with Incidental Accompaniment
Creator: <user name=fiercelydreamed>
Universe: Original
Type of work: Art (pen and ink illustration, digital collage)
Contains: Mild nudity but no sexual content.
Summary and/or notes: The Wenatche Gay Men's Acapella Choir has an annual family summer barbecue. Every year, they purchase six dozen assorted pies, eight packs of balloons, a crate of whipped cream, and an entire flat of paper towels. This is why. Big thanks to K. for the concrit and to M., he knows why.
For the most part, this is very similar to the format used at other communities, but we want to draw your attention to the Contains field. Instead of using a rating system, we're asking creators to disclose any content that they can imagine:
- might not be appropriate to all ages,
- might make some viewers uncomfortable,
- might push the boundaries of common definitions of gen (i.e. no romantic or sexual content), and/or
- some viewers might not wish to see.
This is covers a very wide range of possible content. We've asking creators to be sensitive and thoughtful towards viewers with different tastes and comfort levels. Some creators may choose to use black-out codes hiding content information within a highlighted bar (Contains: list of content goes here); you can either highlight the text to read the warnings or skip straight to the work if you're not concerned about the possible content.
Along with headers and content disclosure, tags are a key way that you can navigate the community and find the kind of works you're looking for. The tags cover the same types of information included in the headers. Here are the tag groups the community uses right now:
- Character tags allow you to find works featuring certain kinds of characters.
- character: sexual minority
- characer: gender minority
- Universe tags allow you to find original, fannish/transformative, or RPF (real person fiction) works.
- original
- fandom: designation
- rpf: designation
- Work tags allow you to find different types of works.
- work: art
- work: fiction
- work: meta
- work: other
- work: picspam
- work: podcast
- work: poetry
- work: recs list
- work: vid
- Filter tags allow you to search for works without certain general types of content. We hope this will be an easy way for you to steer away from content you don't wish to see.
- filter: appropriate for all ages
- filter: no romantic content
- filter: no sexual content
- filter: no strong language
- filter: no violent content
Dispute resolution policy.
While we as moderators take an interest in everything that happens on the community, we cannot promise that we will review every work and every comment. You can alert a moderator if:
- A work has been posted to the community which is you feel is not appropriate given the community's definitions and rules.
- A work's headers do not disclose content that you feel is in need of disclosure.
- A community member is conducting themselves in a way that makes this community an unsafe space.
- Any other event has occurred that you feel requires a moderator's attention or intervention.
If a complaint or request for review is made, we will reply to acknowledge receipt of the complaint, and we will separately and privately notify the community member whose work, comment, or conduct is the subject of the complaint. At least two moderators will then review the complaint and its subject matter and then reach consensus as to whether any action is necessary to resolve this complaint. We will notify the community member who is the subject of the complaint of our decision and whether we're requiring any follow-up action. The community member who is the subject of the complain will have the opportunity to reply to our decision before taking required action (though we may set a time frame in which action must be taken). The member who issued the complaint will be notified separately when the complaint has been resolved.
If a complaint is made, we will not disclose the identity of the member making the complaint to the member who is the subject of the complaint. As a general rule, we will not post notification that a member has been the subject of the complaint, though some situations may require public intervention (such as moderating an aggressive discussion in comments, deleting highly attacking or inappropriate comments or works, etc.).
When participating in this community, we ask you to accept that moderator decisions stand for the purposes of this community. We will make every effort to hear all sides of a dispute and make reasonable and balanced decisions, and we will seek to make the process as transparent to the community members involved in a dispute. However, in the end we will require community members to comply with our decisions whether they agree or not.
If you have any questions or comments regarding these policies or any other aspects of this community, please email the moderators as queerlygen[at]gmail[dot]com. Thank you very much for your time and thoughtful participation -- we're glad to have you here.
