It also depends on what side of the pond you're on. Unfortunately, outside literary magazines there's few big markets in the UK. You almost need to be able to reach mass market appeal for say GLBT-novels. Short stories and novellas can be sold, to magazines and such. Chroma comes to mind.
I don't know the small presses, however. Maybe it's better there, in the UK.
Link, please, Unimportant? (If it's already in your sig, that's cool - just trying to clarify.)
Another speculative one... Crossed Genres did a LBGT theme issue last year (each month is a different theme), so I'm sure they'd be open to stories with those elements at other times.
(Expanded Horizons has always worried me, as their rules look very restrictive, but maybe that's just me).
My worry was really this bit:
"If you doubt your story is a good match for our magazine, you are probably right, and you should not send the story to us because it will be summarily rejected."
Most magazines say the opposite - send it and let us decide. Given that some of their restrictions make me ask more questions than they answer, I'm not really sure if anything I write is a good fit.
Are there a lot of markets for high fantasy with gay protagonists? I ask because I have some sitting in my trunk looking forlorn...or is it different for novels vs short stories?Could you narrow it down to a type of writing?
I write, almost exclusively (outside of my non-fiction) gay romance and high fantasy with gay protagonists and in the small press there are a lot of markets. I have never submitted to a large commercial press in this area.