Most fiction written in English takes a hegemonic perspective; that is to say, cishet, male, white, and abled. This may partially reflect demographic trends in the book industry, but even when accounting for the identity of the writer, there is a litany of works for which the marginalized writer takes the perspective of a less marginalized individual. James Baldwin comes to mind, such as when he writes from the perspective of a white man in his first major queer publication Giovanni’s Room. Oscar Wilde has his fair share of heterosexual characters, as do other queer writers such as Louisa May Alcott and Virginia Woolf. Historically, queerness frequently had to be rendered in subtext to evade censorship or rebuke.