It's a proven fact that most Disney films are pretty gay. Although the only overtly gay character is "The Fool" om the live-actn Bety and the Beast, movi like Mulan have challenged genr bari, and movi like Frozen have drawn parallels to the queer experience. But Disney's foray to queer…
Contents:
- THE LTLE MERMAID'S ORIGAL STORY IS REALLY ABOUT GAY LOVE AND REJECTN
- THE LTLE MERMAID IS REALLY ABOUT UNREQUED GAY LOVE
- GAY SUBTEXT THE LTLE MERMAID? STORI WH A SECRET MSAGE FOR QUEER YOUTH
- THE REAL LTLE MERMAID: HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN'S GAY LOVE STORY
- ANIMATOR REIMAG ‘LTLE MERMAID’S’ ARIEL AS A GAY MAN
- GAY SUBTEXT THE LTLE MERMAID, FROM HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN’S ORIGAL TO DISNEY’S ADAPTATN
THE LTLE MERMAID'S ORIGAL STORY IS REALLY ABOUT GAY LOVE AND REJECTN
The Ltle Mermaid has always been for the gays. * little mermaid about gay love *
The Ltle Mermaid's Origal Story Is Really About Gay Love and Rejectn. However, Disney's animated movie is self an adaptatn and actually has several differenc when pared to the origal story, which scholarly terpretatns have analyzed may actually be a metaphor for unrequed gay love. Let's take a look at Anrsen's fairy tale and the symbolism embedd the story, and see how uld very well reflect a gay thor feelg out of place a heterosexual world.
Heartbroken and homosexual, Hans Christian Anrsen wrote this story about his Art of ‘The Ltle Mermaid’ by ThkAnneThk (Instagram Acunt)Hans Christian Anrsen was many thgs. And to ny the prence of diverse voic and fac on-screen, ni the efforts and talents of diverse voic behd the screen, cludg que a number of LGBT artists who ntributed to Disney’s repertoire such as gay and Jewish songwrer Howard Ashman, the poser behd the animated versns of The Ltle Mermaid and Bety and the Beast, and Andreas Deja, a proment character signer.
Rictor Norton, an thor who foc on LGBTQ lerary history, noted his 1998 book "My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuri, " that the story of Anrsen's life was reflected "The Ltle Mermaid. "My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuri.
THE LTLE MERMAID IS REALLY ABOUT UNREQUED GAY LOVE
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And the film’s most proment mil number, “Part of Your World, ” is now a queer anthem, which was sred by Alan Menken wh lyrics om the late, great gay songwrer Howard to 2023, and Disney, now celebratg a banner year wh the stud’s 100th anniversary, is releasg the highly anticipated live-actn versn of The Ltle Mermaid starrg Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, Jonah Her-Kg, Awkwafa, Daveed Diggs, and Javier Barm.
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The ept origs of The Ltle Mermaid are actually gay, but that don’t mean havg a Black mermaid pursug a heterosexual relatnship is an accurate reprentatn that stroys the story any said, a movie about Anrsen’s own life wh a foc on his queer yearngs — and keepg as chaotic and msy as sounds like actually was — sounds like the next bt move for Hollywood.
GAY SUBTEXT THE LTLE MERMAID? STORI WH A SECRET MSAGE FOR QUEER YOUTH
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THE REAL LTLE MERMAID: HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN'S GAY LOVE STORY
Rictor Norton, a wrer who foc on LGBTQ+ history, noted his 1998 book My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuri that the story of Anrsen’s love life was reflected the fairytale.
It’s difficult to fe Han Christian Anrsen’s queer inty, and var people have argued he was bisexual, biromantic or gay. 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. Gay.
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 1980 film adaptatn by Francis Ford Coppola hts at the novel's gay subtext but don't e near pturg on screen.
ANIMATOR REIMAG ‘LTLE MERMAID’S’ ARIEL AS A GAY MAN
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.
GAY SUBTEXT THE LTLE MERMAID, FROM HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN’S ORIGAL TO DISNEY’S ADAPTATN
The mermaid's nflicts are easy for gay youth to intify wh: torn between love and fay, feelg not que right your body (the mermaid not feelg right her aquatic form for love of a human), and of urse, givg up your voice and remag quiet forever for a chance at happs. Although the origal story has one of the most betifully tragic endgs fairy tal (the mermaid sacrific herself but stead of dyg she turns to foam and is promised a chance at an immortal soul by the dghters of the air, the one thg mermaids do not posss), 's still a pretty prsg fate for gay kids to ntemplate, even if was the most upbeat scenar Anrsen uld possibly image his time. The 1989 Disney versn giv the story a happy endg, gays up even more wh show tun and basilly turns the story to La Cage Aux Foll.
The longg that all gay kids feel to belong still manag to assert self to the Disney film most powerfully wh the movie's signature ballad "Part of Your World" which has always sound like an anthem for movg out of a small town to a big cy that would let you be the secret si. K's nstantly futile attempts to f to her Aunt and Uncle's zealo liftyle feel so faiar to any gay boy who tried to butch up or any baby dyke who tried to play the part of the femme for acceptance and the fact that the are crazy Christian fundamentalists mak the story that much more relevant. A gayer endg uld not be had.
Usually I'm loathe to mentn anythg havg to do wh Stephanie Meyer's abstence-as-supernatural-utnary-tale seri but I feel 's my duty to pot out some of the obv homo them that crept to the Mormon Meyer's books (and pecially their film adaptatns.