CONVERSATION: May/December: Where We Talk About Age Differences

Trigger Warning: Child Rape

Janine: I’ve been thinking lately about age gaps in romance. When I started reading romances in the 1980s, May/December pairings were quite common, with the MCs often being a decade apart in age. Queer romances were almost unheard of in mainstream publishing, self-publishing was expensive, and ebooks didn’t exist in the 1980s. But when I first dipped my toe into m/m in the mid-2000s they weren’t that uncommon. Over time, it seems to me, the May/December trope has beco...