In honor of Gay Pri Month take a look at some of our favore piec of young lerature that jt might have a secret msage for LGBT kids.
Contents:
- GAY SUBTEXT THE LTLE MERMAID? STORI WH A SECRET MSAGE FOR QUEER YOUTH
- THE LTLE MERMAID'S ORIGAL STORY IS REALLY ABOUT GAY LOVE AND REJECTN
GAY SUBTEXT THE LTLE MERMAID? STORI WH A SECRET MSAGE FOR QUEER YOUTH
Gay Disney Seri. A gay versn of the Ltle Mermaid, and luckily, this one has a happy endg. As a gay youth I spent untls hours lookg for myself the pag of the books on the mandatory readg list at my Catholic school.
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In honor of Gay Pri Month take a look at some of my favore piec of young lerature that I believe have a secret msage for gay kids. The books make perfect gifts for the child your life that seems a ltle different, a touch set apart om their peers and a b too fabulo to grow up to be anythg but gay.
THE LTLE MERMAID'S ORIGAL STORY IS REALLY ABOUT GAY LOVE AND REJECTN
The 1980 film adaptatn by Francis Ford Coppola hts at the novel's gay subtext but don't e near pturg on screen. AKA nerds AKA GAYS!!! Crack jt about any issue of the long nng superhero ic and you see the "mutants as gays" metaphor.
In a world where gay kids are bullied and bashed at school and home 's important that wh the X-Men ics they see characters as persecuted and "other" as themselv battlg homophobic, err, I mean "antimutant" fo and WINNING. A bull is raised to fight and be aggrsive jt like the other bulls (what gay kid hasn't felt that parison? GAY GAY GAY) Ferdand wants to do is s and smell the flowers, probably bee he took one of those Japane three-pot flower arrangg class and he's ntemplatg a FABULOUS centerpiece for bnch the pasture the next day.
Ferdand tak the stand all gay kids eventually have to take: this is who I am and I will not apologize and has even gone on to bee somethg of a pacifist hero for his refal to fight. I thk he's better sued to his role as gay in: I for one am always cled to thk of that betiful bull when I stop and smell the flowers. There's somethg about Hans Christian Anrsen's The Ltle Mermaid that speaks strongly to the nflicted feelgs baby gays are startg to experience once they realize there's somethg a ltle different about themselv.