Science fiction as a literature probably helped to save my life. I suspect I would have self-destructed without it, and without the people I have met… - Nalo Hopkinson

It’s the beautiful thing about being a fiction writer; you can write the world you want to see.

Sexuality gets binarized too often. Not only do I resist the idea of one form of sexuality, but the assumption that there are only two forms, and you do one, the other, or both, and those are the only possible behaviors. It sometimes seems to me-and perhaps whimsically so-that the people who are courageously non-normative in their sexualities are doing in the real world some of the work that speculative fiction can do in the world of the imagination, that is, exploring a wider range of possibilities for living.

Write whatever the blast you want, and if you live in an environment where doing so doesn't endanger your life or career, count yourself blessed.