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• WHY THIS CHARMG GAY FAIRYTALE HAS BEEN LOST FOR 200 YEARS
• QUEER FOLKLORE WAS ERASED OM HISTORY BY HOMOPHOB, BUT ONE ‘FABULOLY GAY’ FAIRYTALE HAS SURVIVED
• GAY FAIRY & FOLK TAL : MORE TRADNAL STORI RETOLD FOR GAY MEN
• 'PRCE & KNIGHT' PUTS A GAY-INCLIVE TWIST ON TRADNAL FAIRY TAL
• TAG ARCHIV: GAY FAIRYTAL
• A NEW GAY FAIRY TALE
• FAIRY TAL: TRADNAL STORI RETOLD FOR GAY MEN PAPERBACK – JANUARY 3, 1997
• GAY FAIRY TALE RETELLGS
• GAYFAIRYTAL STORI
• SERIGAY FAIRY & FOLK TAL
• 30 DAYS OF PRI: RETELLGS BUT MAKE  GAY
• A GAY FAIRYTALE SERI
• GAY-RELATED THEMES IN THE FAIRY TALES OF OSCAR WILDE
• TAG ARCHIV: GAY FAIRYTAL
• GAYFAIRYTAL STORI
• SERIGAY FAIRY & FOLK TAL
• "GAY FAIRYTAL" ANGER BRISH RELIG GROUPS
• 30 DAYS OF PRI: RETELLGS BUT MAKE  GAY
• A GAY FAIRYTALE SERI
• "GAY FAIRYTAL" ANGER RELIG GROUPS
• A NEW GAY FAIRYTALE COLLECTN: GAY FAIRYTAL (GAY PRCE CHARMGS) KDLE EDN

WHY THIS CHARMG GAY FAIRYTALE HAS BEEN LOST FOR 200 YEARS

“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.

QUEER FOLKLORE WAS ERASED OM HISTORY BY HOMOPHOB, BUT ONE ‘FABULOLY GAY’ FAIRYTALE HAS SURVIVED

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.

GAY FAIRY & FOLK TAL : MORE TRADNAL STORI RETOLD FOR GAY MEN

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.

'PRCE & KNIGHT' PUTS A GAY-INCLIVE TWIST ON TRADNAL FAIRY TAL

“When I started to reunt to my gay iends, they got goosebumps too. This list is for LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans) fictn retellgs of classic lerature, fairy tal or mythology. Gay Pri and Prejudice.

The Ltle Homo Sapiens Scientist.

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bisexual, fairytal, fictn, gay, lbian, lgbt, mythology, queer, retellg, retellgs, trans, transgenr. Content warng for domtic abe, misogyny, and homophobia. Content warng for child abe and slight homophobia.

Most people have never heard a queer, tradnal fairytale, but one wrer has revealed that this is not bee they didn’t exist, but bee they were erased by a homophobic amic.

Cornish wrer and illtrator Pete Jordi Wood has explaed how queer folklore was erased om history, but revealed that he has managed to rcue one “fabuloly gay” fairytale.

A NEW GAY FAIRY TALE

“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. The Dog and the Sea was a tale that existed multiple languag, but not English, but after translatg the var versns of the story Wood found an “unbelievably and fabuloly gay” tale.

FAIRY TAL: TRADNAL STORI RETOLD FOR GAY MEN PAPERBACK – JANUARY 3, 1997

Wood said the story gave him “gay goosebumps”, and add that was “likely be far olr than the 1800s when was first wrten down words”. Cornish wrer and illtrator, published gay fairytale “The Dog And The Sailor”. The enarg, "unbelievably and fabuloly gay” plot follows a sailor's grand adventure and marriage to a handsome prce.

GAY FAIRY TALE RETELLGS

(Parents who don’t yet want to troduce the ia of homophobia uld put the kg’s brief reluctance down to the fact that the uple jt met. I like, too, that Erri mak clear Cedric knew he was gay om the time he was a boy. Durg his talogg, he listed homosexualy and lbianism the sectn labeled ‘Unnatural Perversns” along wh btialy and ct.

What he found was what appeared to be a “fabuloly gay” story.

“For all the gay parents who have shared the book wh their kids and who have told me they wish they had somethg like this when they were young, I’ve heard om jt as many straight parents who love .

GAYFAIRYTAL STORI

For all the gay parents who have shared the book wh their kids and who have told me they wish they had somethg like this when they were young, I’ve heard om jt as many straight parents who love .

A New Gay Fairy Tale - The New York Tim. A New Gay Fairy Tale.

SERIGAY FAIRY & FOLK TAL

But be reful of those gays.

He was not jt gay, he was extravagantly. graphs as high-risk groups — dg ers, homosexuals, prostut, long-distance tckers — stead of regular people.

30 DAYS OF PRI: RETELLGS BUT MAKE  GAY

gay weekly was filled wh AIDS obuari and I was aaid to get too attached to anyone whose time seemed limed.

Like many Midwtern gay men of his generatn, R. gay story. that embraced s gay children wh pri and marched down the street paras wh them.

A GAY FAIRYTALE SERI

Was my gui to the wild gay San Francis that was rapidly fadg away. Gay pri paras were already fillg wh baby strollers and sweatpants. Packed his van, turned his back on the Cy by the Bay and head home to the stiflg town he had once ped, thereby turng the great fairy tale of the Amerin gay story on s head.

But I uld not have left the fort of my San Francis life, wh s happy hour at gay bars and the Humm Man and Sprouts Lady at anic farmer’s. Reviewed the Uned Stat ?? on April 16, 1998In this book, Peter Cashorali tak faiar folk tal and rests them wh gay men and boys the starrg rol: fally, a world where 's the gay man who fds love or fulfills his dream or solv the I read the stori, I felt emotnal blocks si me fallg to place, havg been spend for s; as a child, I had read the origal versns of the stori, but I uld not intify wh the heterosexual protagonists and so felt a certa distance om the stori. The archetyp are there for me too, now--I n my heart ronatg when the prce lov a boy, when the outst gay man ends up succeedg.

GAY-RELATED THEMES IN THE FAIRY TALES OF OSCAR WILDE

I believe that every gay man will benef om readg the stori, to repair his childhood taptry that clud no gay stori work well when read aloud, too. It's also worth notg that a que wi spectm of gay life is reprented here, and Mr.

)This book, and s sequel, are the only books I would unhatgly remend to every gay man.

TAG ARCHIV: GAY FAIRYTAL

Reviewed the Uned Stat ?? on Augt 22, 2013I enjoyed this book and would remend to people terted gay fairy tal, very good. This book (and volume 2) are wrten the classil style but for gay folks (and folks who like great wrg).

Reviewed the Uned Stat ?? on November 7, 2015s lovely for all gay men of all ag.

Reviewed the Uned Stat ?? on November 26, 2010I bought this book bee I liked the ncept of retellg folktal a gay ntext.

GAYFAIRYTAL STORI

However, what the tro promis and what the pag liver are entirely different thgs: 20 or so tradnal stori drsed up the most shallow of gay clich -- all the boys make betiful flower arrangements, Hansel spends his days at the wch hoe puttg on make up and reenactg Sunset Boulevard, no reference is left out to Judy Garland, hairdrsg, pk flamgos, Broadway mils... Reviewed Canada ?? on May 13, 2016Sce children don't have a fed sexualy (stop tellg me about how clever you were at three) this is a seri of bedtime stori for gay men. GAY FAIRY TALES.

SERIGAY FAIRY & FOLK TAL

I am gay myself and found nothg the stori that reflected my difficulti such as unrequed sexual sir and lonels. I am so exced to share this wonrful list of gay fairy tale retellgs wh you! Have you ever read a gay fairy tale retellg?

"GAY FAIRYTAL" ANGER BRISH RELIG GROUPS

This book list featur some of the bt gay fairy tale retellgs I was able to fd. Related: Gay Milary Romance Novels. Take a classic and make gay — ’s really that simple.

From A Great Gatsby retellg featurg trans and gay characters jt like we’ve always known should to a Sapphic take on Arthurian legend, the new retellgs take on myths, legends, fairytal, and classic stori — both old and new. I mean, what’s better than takg a classic story we all know & puttg a gay sp on , right? ) broachg important topics a sual way, like misogyny or homophobia.

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30 DAYS OF PRI: RETELLGS BUT MAKE  GAY

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A GAY FAIRYTALE SERI

Prid over by the transgenr, kaftan and nnabis-lovg landlady Mrs Madrigal, clud lbian firecracker Mona Ramsey and gay sweetheart Michael ‘Moe’ Tolliver, as well as self-admirg straight stud Brian Hawks, among s rints. Livg wh Tal of the Cy’s pag has provid gay rears wh a muny, even when real life may have not Mp ntued the lumns, duly llected to novels, until the late 80s, wh his characters ageg real time.

Pictured 2001, Tal of the Cy thor Armistead Mp (centre) and his star Lra Lney (right) have rned for the anchise’s latt reboot (Cred: Alamy)What the seri has meant to gay rears, particular, over the years is lculable: livg wh s pag has provid them wh a muny, even when real life may have not. The Ain-Amerin Ben is the sole person of lour amid a table of rich, whe, olr gay men, and when they start jokg about ‘Mexin tranni’, he tak exceptn and lls them out on their offensivens – only to enrage the assembled pany.

There’s nsirably ls nnectn between olr and younger gay men than there ed to be – Walt OtsWalt Ots is a clil psychologist who has specialised workg wh gay men. His new book Out of the Shadows: Reimagg Gay Men’s Liv explor how plited their liv still are, even wh a supposedly morn and progrsive Wtern society like the US. As part of this study, one notable trend he intifi is a dwdlg sense of mararie between olr and younger gay men – a si effect, part, of their growg assiatn.

"GAY FAIRYTAL" ANGER RELIG GROUPS

Gay people were outsirs, which gave them a very fed [sense of] muny, but that’s dimished to a signifint extent. I’ve heard a le many tim om younger men which is ‘I’m not the kd of person who gets HIV’ – Walt OtsOts believ that gay men now live “triparte muni”, spl to three distct generatns. There is the olr group who lived through the HIV epimic as adults, and stand as the survivors of a severe trma; a middle group, who lived through the epimic as children, and so, Ots’s words, have “a kd of terrible inty that entangl beg gay and HIV”; and a younger group who grew up the wake of the disvery of effective antiretroviral treatments, and for whom HIV has therefore been a relatively margal if the issue of HIV no longer spir the dread among gay men once did, neverthels activat prejudic – both young and old.

This year’s is more momento than ever, memoratg as do the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rts, when on 28 June 1969, members of the LGBT muny rose up followg a police raid on New York gay bar the Stonewall the celebratns also tend to stimulate a bate over whether gay culture has, to s triment, bee creasgly policised. As time has gone on, ‘gay’ culture has bee more and more multifaceted, wh a whole spectm of genr and sexual inti clud unr the ‘queer’ umbrella.

”What’s more, there is a much greater awarens of tersectnaly among the young: that is, of how racism and sexism tersect wh homophobia.

A NEW GAY FAIRYTALE COLLECTN: GAY FAIRYTAL (GAY PRCE CHARMGS) KDLE EDN

But the velopments n be treated wh bafflement, even disda, by olr generatns, not least olr gay whe men, who, for all the sufferg they have unrgone, have enjoyed much greater visibily and acceptance than other LGBT groups over the years. Landlady Mrs Madrigal (Olympia Dakis) is a queer mentor like no other – and today’s young LGBT people still need such figur (Cred: Netflix)Do Mp thk a divi has opened up between whe gay men and the rt of the muny? Old and young, gay and straight, cis and trans, black, brown and whe: all ngregate the kooky mune of Barbary Lane a way that still feels prsgly is, above all, a portra of ‘logil fay’ – that’s the gen phrase Mp himself ed one of the novels to scribe the rmal fay that many of , particularly LGBT people, make as an alternative to our blogil one; he subsequently ed as the tle of his 2017 memoir.

Four s on om that first lumn, is profoundly movg to see mother figure Mrs Madrigal still acquirg new ‘children’, to whom she opens her home and dispens gnomic life younger gay people the Wt, wh all their relative eedoms, still need ‘parents’ like this? It’s tertg to note how a feature entled The Gay Generatn Gap New York Magaze back 2009, the teemed culture wrer Mark Harris referenced Mp when he clared that “today the notn of quasi-parental gay mentorship feels ancient, a trope out of Tal of the Cy. ”Ots, by ntrast, thks tergeneratnal dialogue has been on the sli – but, when LGBT battl are still far om won, spe superficially rosy velopments such as gay marriage, we really need to foster Lney and producer Alan Poul at work on the Barbary Lane set, which was created on a New York soundstage and is vaster and more unreal than ever (Cred: Netflix)Of urse, Tal of the Cy is unashamed make-believe: now filmed on a soundstage New York, Barbary Lane is a vast theatril set that looks bigger and more unreal than ever.

In fact, whout givg too much away, the new seri cleverly satiris the goln-age thkg that n go on when to gay culture. Out of the Shadows: Reimagg Gay Men’s Liv by Walt Ots is out you would like to ment on this story or anythg else you have seen on BBC Culture, head over to our Facebook page or msage on if you liked this story, sign up for the weekly featur newsletter, lled The Essential List.