Gay and lesbian characters’ treatment in Basque contemporary short-story-writing

Abstract

• It is said Basque short-story-writing to be recently increasing as a narrative
  gender. Likewise, hegemonic sexuality and gender dissents, that is to say, the
  LGTBI+ community, is more accepted and common in our society. Thus, this
  research aims at yoking both subjects under examination. We will be analysing a
  small sample of short-stories written in Basque language form the latest decades,
  and we will see how are treated homosexual –gays and lesbians– characters in
  those. Briefly, this paper will analyse sexuality-topics proposed in literary re-
  searches to see whether they are embodied or not (and how) in contemporary
  Basque literature.