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Minotaur was a slash fandom BNF known for his informative writings, presence on panels, and advice. Minotaur got into slash fandom in the mid-'90s when he joined the Paris/Kim Slash Party (PKSP) mailing list in Voyager fandom. He wrote his first slash story about six months later.

By the early '00s, Minotaur was (and remained) a BNF in the truest sense of the word -- he was known across multiple slash fandoms because of his contributions to fandom overall. He was a fan writer and an archivist, but was probably best known for his sex advice -- not in terms of how to have it, but how to write it. He earned a mention in the meta parody piece Deep Fanfic Thoughts, by Jack Handey because of it.

He was a staple panelist for years (1998 - 2004) at slash cons, giving frank, entertaining "gay boy tells all" talks that gave female slash writers a place to ask questions they might not be able to ask a non-fannish friend, while always being careful to stress that he was just one man, and that every man is different.

Online, he created the Sex Tips for Slash Writers page (and later the searchable MQA database based on it), an invaluable resource widely used by slash writers.