This trend continued with the swell of modern novel styles, with a few periods of works from the early 19th-century holding and implying strong lesbian themes very often even where the slightest male-to-male mention of homosexuality would have been picked up on immediately. There’s Sappho again for you – if only this Grecian poet knew the queer icon she’d turned out to be. Much to the contrary, lesbian fiction has been running strong for thousands of years, with some of the earliest recovered excerpts coming from as early as 2,500 years ago.
Many people consider queer romance fiction to be a modern phenomenon from the era of the internet, especially when it pertains to young adults and contains YA themes, but much like bad-faith breakdowns of the connection between Sappho and her ‘friend’, they couldn’t be further from the truth.
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