Best Gay Romance with Strong Characters

Vote/add books with a gay romance plot/subplot that have as protagonists strong characters. For this list the meaning of “strong” is related more to personality traits and less to physical ones. Strong characters are those who can stand for themselves when the need arises, are not dependable, passive, there’s not a knight in shining armor who takes the lead and saves them or an alpha male who is dominating them, they have inner strength, self-appreciation, are truly partners for their love-interests.

Note: both or all the protagonists of the romance must match the above requirements.
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471 books · 317 voters · list created April 29th, 2011 by Nemesis (votes) .
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message 1: by Tammy K. (last edited Sep 26, 2012 06:46PM) (new)

Tammy K. are not dependable, = strong?
If they are equal partners then don't you books with equal or balanced coupling?


message 2: by Tammy K. (new)

Tammy K. I noticed that there are books that are in this list as strong and in the list as alpha males aka Prey by andrea speed. and Among the Living (PsyCop, #1)
all of the cut and run series by Abigail Roux and a lot more.
In fact if you brought up the two lists and toggle between then you would find lots of alpha males on this list.


message 3: by Tammy K. (new)

Tammy K. I, OmegaI, Omega is the story of a Dom.


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