Promised Land: Authors of LGBTI fairytale thrilled ‘long overdue’ story has met crowdfunding target. An LGBTI-themed fairytale book, about a prince named Leo and a farm boy named Jack who meet and fall in love, will be officially published after surpassing its crowdfunding goal.

In this utopian kingdom, sexuality isn’t questioned. Harris said it was important lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex stories were represented in print and on screen — just as heterosexual stories so commonly are.

There has been an avalanche of gushing LGBTI stories on the ABC lately. This is a major change in our cultural evolution; why didn’t this happen earlier?