It was way back in 1989 that Samuel R. Delaney, Marilyn Hacker's gay, black ex-husband, won a Hugo for his memoir The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village. It seems to have taken the forces of anti-diversity reaction an awfully long time to mobilize their counter-attack.
(Sometime in the 1970s, I heard Anne McCaffrey, who wrote the Dragonriders of Pern series, talk about her frustration with Robert Heinlein's inability to write a believable female character. And in the '60s I admired Judith Merrill as a science fiction critic and anthologist, while recognizing in a semi-clueless adolescent way that she was some sort of exception to the rule in what was mostly a boys-club genre.)
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