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Check out the imag om the new gay fairytale for children lled ‘Promised Land.’

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NEW CHILDREN’S BOOK ‘PROMISED LAND’ IS A GAY FAIRYTALE

"And when the msage out there is so horrible, that to be gay you n get killed for — we need to change the msage, " she said he remembered "feelg so helpls" at the time. "'It jt means I'm like Prce Leo and he was awome'Harris said was important lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex stori were reprented prt and on screen — jt as heterosexual stori so monly are.

"So much of what we see through the media and hear om our parents when we are children, forms our opns and attus towards others and, more importantly, our attus towards ourselv, " he said was important children had gay characters to relate to.

PROMISED LAND: A GAY FAIRY TALE

"When people have qutned the 'appropriatens' of five to 10-year-olds learng about beg gay, they are gog to be askg that qutn soon enough bee gay people don't pop out of a lamp at the most nvenient age for parents — we exist too.

"I went through a tough time at school wh bullyg and I fely attribute my own disfort wh beg gay as havg few role mols to show me that a happy future was possible as a young gay person. It begs: "Once upon a time, a land not far away, a place where no one red if you were straight or you were gay. The say the story had to stand on s own and the fact that the characters are gay is cintal.

Somewhere “gay people n have a happily ever after". The characters have to overe adversy but Harris says beg gay is not the problem or the difficulty. Promised Land is dited to the Pulse 49 the Orlando night clubbers who were killed a gay hate attack Florida last year.

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