However, the obvious panel would be LGBTQ monsters, particularly female and female-identified ones. I am thinking of proposing this, taking a wide view of "monster" - some monsters are literal, some more ambiguous, and sometimes the identity or orientation itself is condemned as monstrous.
Hm. Off the top of my head—
All three sets of protagonists in Tanith Lee's The Book of the Damned: the gender-shifting vampires in "Stained in Crimson"; the murderous protagonist who assumes both male and female identities in "Malice in Saffron"; the double-gendered haunting in "Empires of Azure." The female is foregrounded in all three novellas.
The Stephens Ward Tea League and Society of Resurrectionists from Caitlín R. Kiernan's In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers (2002, reprinted in Alabaster in 2006 as "Les Fleurs Empoisonnées"). Biancabella and Candida reappear in the vignette "Still Life" in Tales from the Woeful Platypus (2007), reprinted last month in Sirenia Digest #61. In fact, if you want queer female monsters, you could do a lot worse than go through the Sirenia archives. There are a number of them—I'd single out "The Cryomancer's Daughter (Murder Ballad No. 3)," "A Child's Guide to the Hollow Hills," "Derma Sutra (1891)," "The Thousand-and-Third Tale of Scheherezade," "The Belated Burial," and "The Prayer of Ninety Cats" as particularly strong examples; on the science fiction side, "Faces in Revolving Souls" (A Is for Alien, 2009). It is also possible that Constance Hopkins from The Red Tree (2009) qualifies.
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Hm. Off the top of my head—
All three sets of protagonists in Tanith Lee's The Book of the Damned: the gender-shifting vampires in "Stained in Crimson"; the murderous protagonist who assumes both male and female identities in "Malice in Saffron"; the double-gendered haunting in "Empires of Azure." The female is foregrounded in all three novellas.
The Stephens Ward Tea League and Society of Resurrectionists from Caitlín R. Kiernan's In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers (2002, reprinted in Alabaster in 2006 as "Les Fleurs Empoisonnées"). Biancabella and Candida reappear in the vignette "Still Life" in Tales from the Woeful Platypus (2007), reprinted last month in Sirenia Digest #61. In fact, if you want queer female monsters, you could do a lot worse than go through the Sirenia archives. There are a number of them—I'd single out "The Cryomancer's Daughter (Murder Ballad No. 3)," "A Child's Guide to the Hollow Hills," "Derma Sutra (1891)," "The Thousand-and-Third Tale of Scheherezade," "The Belated Burial," and "The Prayer of Ninety Cats" as particularly strong examples; on the science fiction side, "Faces in Revolving Souls" (A Is for Alien, 2009). It is also possible that Constance Hopkins from The Red Tree (2009) qualifies.