Your quest to add more diversity to your stories has a new companion. Beyond the Rainbow is a consolidated resource where writers can find accurate and valid information regarding marginalized orientations, gender identities and intersex individuals (this website uses the term queer as an umbrella term for those who identify as LGBT+).
Our goal is to offer an accurate resource that provides writing advice, character development tips and tricks, and help avoiding harmful stereotypes and tropes. We also want to support and encourage writers with access to seminars, editors, beta readers and sensitivity readers. Beyond the Rainbow is your source for accurate, honest and respectful ways to write MOGAI persons.

Accurate:
Each module has been thoroughly researched and vetted by those from that section of the community.
Honest:
Each module approaches the challenges faced by queer persons honestly and openly.
Respectful:
Beyond the Rainbow strongly encourages all authors to write diverse characters respectfully and shows how this is possible.

This site will be growing and changing as more identities and orientations are added. While we strive to include everyone some terms are too new to have much reference material and some are only used within the queer community itself. If you have questions regarding a specific orientation or gender, please contact us.

Writing is already hard so we’ve made certain the website is easy to navigate and the information you need is clear and understandable.

If you have any special requests or need animation free pages, please contact us.