A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island.
Contents:
- WHEN WERE FRODO AND SAM FIRST NCEPTUALIZED AS GAY?
- HOW FRODO AND SAM WERE “MOSTLY GAY”
- WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?
- FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
WHEN WERE FRODO AND SAM FIRST NCEPTUALIZED AS GAY?
Note: This say ntas discsn of homophobia and mentn of suici.].
HOW FRODO AND SAM WERE “MOSTLY GAY”
Outsi of the safe darkns of the theater, the Mordor-like wasteland of middle school, the movi were synonymo wh the favored sult of the time — “gay.”. Early-2000s preteen Ameri was a time of gay jok, of “no homo,” of mockg voic and slurs, and secret, punive vlence enacted the locker room agast anyone who had a whiff of otherns. He never would have wrten about gay people!” But there are exampl of queerns Tolkien’s time and place, and any speculatn is backed by historil ntext.
WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?
He faced a urt-martial 1918 after one of his letters scribed “homosexual relatns wh men his pany.” Rather than face the nsequenc — rporal punishment and two years prison — and the shame the trial would brg upon his fay, he walked to enemy fire and was killed. Two years before The Lord of the Rgs was published, war-wng breaker and geni mathematician Alan Turg stood trial for “homosexual acts and gross cency” — that is, beg ught his own home wh another man.
Lewis wrote a letter to Sheldon Vanken (later reprted Vanken’s tobgraphy) that Lewis had received a letter om a “p male homosexual [...] but of urse was the sort of letter one tak re to stroy.”.
The only mentn is a bland reference his bgraphy by Humphrey Carpenter: “As to homosexualy, Tolkien claimed that at neteen he did not even know the word.”. Tolkien wrote of the openly gay poet W.H.
FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
As scribed by thor Reynolds Price, at least one member of Tolkien’s iend group, the Inklgs, “separated om his wife and lived a quietly homosexual life.” Most tertg to me, Tolkien was a teacher and fan of Mary Renlt, a wrer who spent her life a romantic relatnship wh another woman. She beme an in the gay male muny for wrg sympathetilly about same-sex relatnships ancient Greece.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
Bilbo and Frodo’s home of Bag End is scribed by other hobbs as “a queer place, and s folk are queerer” — an adjective which had a strong nnotatn of homosexualy by the late 1800s.
It’s tricky to apply morn labels to people that they did not claim life — but morn labels clu “straight” and “cisgenr” jt as much as “gay” or “transgenr.” All we n do is look at their liv and be open to the possibily. One of them was Geofey Bache Smh, a poet whose work is nsired homoromantic by morn rears.