For much of the 20C 'fairy' was ed to mean 'gay'. Where do this sense e om and when was first ed? Probably the US's east ast the late 19C.
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- WHY THIS CHARMG GAY FAIRYTALE HAS BEEN LOST FOR 200 YEARS
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
WHY THIS CHARMG GAY FAIRYTALE HAS BEEN LOST FOR 200 YEARS
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Gay Fairi: When and Why. But somewhere down the list is a gay man.
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
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. * gay fairies *
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.
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Homosexual culture is not, by any means, a simple effort for men to bee women: but the ey of neteenth-century society this is what homosexualy was. I’d back gay ‘fairi’ g om this sense of the word.
An old iend of this blog, Leif wr, 16 Mar 2018: Why are gay men referred to as fairi? But is trigug to nsir that the term may have origated wh the homosexual unrworld of the ‘Yellow Neti’, perhaps as a kd of word.
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Third, the fairy/gay associatn did exist the lerary world of the Yellow Neti.
Arthur Machen’s novella ‘The Hill of Dreams’ impli a homosexual enunter between a real fairy ( this se a fn) and a mortal. “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.
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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.
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