Talk:Lesbian science fiction

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There *was* a lesbian science fiction page. There was discussion of merging it with gay science fiction to create "LGBT science fiction". We still have "gay science fiction", we don't have "LGBT science fiction", and I don't see a record for deleting "lesbian science fiction". But there's a history on the lesbian science fiction page. What gives? -- LQ 17:14, 17 September 2006 (UTC) update: hmm, perhaps some weird wiki hiccup: the page isn't giving me the "There is no lesbian science fiction page" template any more.

No, lesbian science fiction is not the same thing as gay or LGBT science fiction.

(1) I agree. So perhaps you want to speak up on the Gay science fiction page, which is where someone (not me) originally suggested it. So far I've been the only one to respond (and I pointed out at least one good reason for keeping them separate). The reason I added the "merge" link here is because it is on the Gay sf page -- and it is still there, so people coming to this page will not know about the discussion / proposal on the Gay SF page. As long as the entry is on the gay SF page I think it should be, here, too, to encourage fuller discussion of the issue.

(2) Apparently my original comment was confusing so let me clarify. I was making changes to "lesbian science fiction" and noted that "gay science fiction" had a merge request. Then at some later point I could not find the "lesbian science fiction" page and figured it had been deleted by the "gay sf" merger advocate. So I set up this "Talk:Lesbian science fiction" page to complain that "Lesbian sf" should not have been deleted without more process/discussion. Then I saw that it had not, in fact, been deleted -- that maybe it was just a "weird wiki hiccup" that gave me a nonexistent page template. ... The discussion about whether to merge gay sf/lesbian sf and whether to include the "merger suggested" tag is separate from my query about where is the lesbian sf article. -- LQ 14:41, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing that up. I've removed the tag from the GSF page too since a) they're not the same thing and b) after two months nobody came along to support the suggestion of a merge.

I'm currently expanding and hopefully improving the gay SF page. This involved removing lots of lesbian books and links etc. It seems to me that other wikipedians expect gay to mean LGBT in this context. And considering the crappy stubby nature of this article, i would support a merge, with a seperate list article for the lesbian seperatists to add books to.

Until it happens, i've made the link from gay SF more obvious.Yobmod (talk) 17:08, 31 March 2008 (UTC)