I think it's DEFINITELY good to discuss how much slash supports actual queerness and how much it's about appropriations of queer things for basically straight fantasies. I also think it's interesting to think these issues in realtions to worlds where this division (straight/"other") might not even exist or be drawn along much different lines. Which again comes with the problem, that we are all from THIS world.
But to answer some of the other things you asked: I definitely feel that there are some corners of fandom that are more queer than others. These can overlap with slash famdom(s - MANY of those around) in many different ways. The way I interact with lj is that I tend to follow less communities and more personal journals. So I follow authors I like directly. There ARE quite a few lesbians/queer people(/explictely queer friendly straight people (who've obviously put some though into it)) out there writing slash and if they are popular writers (subsets of) communities tend to form around them. Some of those are more focised on the queer aspects and less on slash/specific fandoms and some are less connected to one person and more fandom specific. I think there were some great fics written in SGA, during a period of a few month (or a bit longer) that explored gender and it's implications on sexuality. Which is one reason that I do think that starting these discussions can also be valuable in ingfluencing the content that will be produced. Because so much of fandom (though in my personal experience it has been less so in the last year or so, which makes for less wank but also less interesting thinks, but I might just be missing stuff) is about interacting in many forms. And if somebody reads a fic (or meta, or whatever) that inspires them to think anbout something, who can say that a fic won't be the result of that.
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But to answer some of the other things you asked: I definitely feel that there are some corners of fandom that are more queer than others. These can overlap with slash famdom(s - MANY of those around) in many different ways. The way I interact with lj is that I tend to follow less communities and more personal journals. So I follow authors I like directly. There ARE quite a few lesbians/queer people(/explictely queer friendly straight people (who've obviously put some though into it)) out there writing slash and if they are popular writers (subsets of) communities tend to form around them. Some of those are more focised on the queer aspects and less on slash/specific fandoms and some are less connected to one person and more fandom specific. I think there were some great fics written in SGA, during a period of a few month (or a bit longer) that explored gender and it's implications on sexuality.
Which is one reason that I do think that starting these discussions can also be valuable in ingfluencing the content that will be produced. Because so much of fandom (though in my personal experience it has been less so in the last year or so, which makes for less wank but also less interesting thinks, but I might just be missing stuff) is about interacting in many forms. And if somebody reads a fic (or meta, or whatever) that inspires them to think anbout something, who can say that a fic won't be the result of that.