It’s long been prumed by historians and folklorists that heroic LGBTQ characters simply didn’t exist. But when one ancient gay fairytale was disvered, one amic has explas they were actually eded out of history as recently as the 1960s.
Contents:
- WHY THIS CHARMG GAY FAIRYTALE HAS BEEN LOST FOR 200 YEARS
- 'PRCE & KNIGHT' PUTS A GAY-INCLIVE TWIST ON TRADNAL FAIRY TAL
- GAY FAIRY & FOLK TAL : MORE TRADNAL STORI RETOLD FOR GAY MEN
WHY THIS CHARMG GAY FAIRYTALE HAS BEEN LOST FOR 200 YEARS
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But also as a history nerd, i also am aware that this word has been ed medieval & Renaissance tim to talk about anyone who intified as gay/ lbian (or LGBTQ+ general). “The Dog And The Sailor” is a gay fairytale lost for over 200 years, after narrowly ped beg... But one newly released gay fairytale, that n be traced back to at least the 19th century has been disvered by Pete Jordi Wood, the Cornish wrer and illtrator.
His rearch suggts that not only did gay fairytale “The Dog And The Sailor” exist but that a “whole chunk of LGBTQ folklore” was “leted” by one homophobic man, as recently as the 1950s. MORE FROM FORBESTalkg About Your Pronouns Is One Easy Way To Be A Transgenr AllyBy Jamie WarehamGay fairytal have always existed, but some have been eded out of history.
“In the acpanyg Motif Inx of Folklore he piled the 1920s, and revised the 1950s, he lists ‘Homosexualy’ and ‘Lbianism’ a sectn lled “Unnatural Perversns” wh btialy and ct. One guy got to choose what stori did or didn’t make the cut what is now the re rource and system for documentg folklore an orr still ed gay folklore was lost when Sh Thompson and other prolific folklore amics imposed their... [+] a posive queer story that was passed om generatn to generatn over 200 years agoPete Jordi Wood – The Dog And The SailorMORE FROM FORBESOpenly Gay Indian Prce Jos Calls To Ban LGBT Conversn TherapyBy Jamie WarehamThe Dog And The Sailor is the gay fairytale where the male sailor, gets to kiss Prce Charmg.
'PRCE & KNIGHT' PUTS A GAY-INCLIVE TWIST ON TRADNAL FAIRY TAL
So after translatg variatns of the story om Danish, German, Frisian, and others; and checkg Thompson’s synopsis was rrect, ntag the same elements or motifs – Pete found an “unbelievably and fabuloly gay” plot. “Ultimately ’s an ancient tale wh a posive portrayal, of a guy who n be read as gay or asexual, but certaly queer, who is the only person who n feat the evil bee he n rist her bety. But Pete got ‘gay goosebumps’ when he realised what he’d found.
“When I started to reunt to my gay iends, they got goosebumps too. Gay Fairi: When and Why. But somewhere down the list is a gay man.
GAY FAIRY & FOLK TAL : MORE TRADNAL STORI RETOLD FOR GAY MEN
But there are, fact, a number of works of cultural history that make somethg of the fairy = gay nnectn. The Longer Oxford English Dictnary has, as s fifth and fal meang for fairy: ‘A male homosexual.
But how much earlier did ‘fairy’ mean homosexual? This cis wh what is known of the peculiar societi of verts [homosexuals]. Jt recently I heard a iend of me tell how the e of fairy to refer to a gay male me om the time when men were typilly ed to play female parts plays and the type of male who would take the part was more effemate and often a homosexual..
Could fairy have been extend om there to mean homosexual? Third, blogger Lisa Spangenbeg wr tentatively that fairi = gay bee fairi are barren.