Is Tt gay? Debate on as Herge's hero turns 80 - News18

Contents:

• TT WAS GAY, TIM JOURNALIST CLAIMS
• IS TT GAY?
• IS TT GAY? DEBATE ON AS HERGE'S HERO TURNS 80
• IS TT GAY?
• WAR ON WHIMSY: NO, TT ISN’T GAY
• NO. TT ISN’T GAY.
• OF URSE TT’S GAY. ASK SNOWY
• IS TT GAY? CARTOON BIRTHDAY BOY DOGGED BY MOURS

TT WAS GAY, TIM JOURNALIST CLAIMS

As Belgian ic book in Tt celebrat his 80th birthday, an age-old qutn has rurfaced: Is the boy reporter gay? "Billns of blue blisterg barnacl, isn't starg the face?, " wrote The Tim journalist Matthew Parris unr the headle "Of urse Tt's gay. Translated to 60 languag, the rtoon books still sell upwards of 2 ln pi per Parris, a former Brish MP who is openly gay, said Tt's sexualy was obv to anyone who reads the rtoon books fay background giv a first clue.

As psychologists will nfirm, this is mon among young gay men, " Mr Parris fact that while beg nomally a journalist, he almost never fil any stori, is also fishy - fuellg speculatn that he is a spy.

IS TT GAY?

"As the remott acquatance wh [for stance] Brish pnage will nfirm, secret telligence has always attracted gay men. ""Py this dog, wretchedly straight and trapped a ghastly web of gay human mal, " Mr Parris wrote. "And you're tellg me Tt isn't gay?

Parris, himself gay, is a well-known newspaper lumnist who notorly 'outed' Bs Mister Lord Peter Manlson the middle of a televisn terview 1998.

Now, Parris sists, the reporter whose adventur have sold more than 200 ln pi and been translated to 50 languag, is gay and that fans are a state of "nial". Tt, who was born January 10, 1929, on the pag of a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vgtième Siècle, has an unknown background and orig, says Parris, addg: "This is mon among young gay men, some of whom fd hard to believe that they really are their parents' child".

IS TT GAY? DEBATE ON AS HERGE'S HERO TURNS 80

In fact, Parris spects Tt may well have been a spy - "secret telligence has always attracted gay men. In 2001, Belgian police seized 600 pi of an unthorised book tled "Tt Thailand" - which showed Tt and his iends livg up Thai gay bars. However, Belgium-based Studs Herge reacted stoutly, wh spokman Marcel Wilmet clarg: "Tt is not at all gay - he was very macho fact.

London - As Belgian ic-book in Tt celebrat his 80th birthday, an age-old qutn has rurfaced: is the boy reporter gay? " wrote The Tim journalist Matthew Parris unr the headle "Of urse Tt's gay. Parris, a former Brish lawmaker who is openly gay, said Tt's sexualy was obv to anyone who reads the rtoon books closely.

IS TT GAY?

As psychologists will nfirm, this is mon among young gay men, " says Parris. "As the remott acquatance wh (for stance) Brish pnage will nfirm, secret telligence has always attracted gay men.

"Py this dog, wretchedly straight and trapped a ghastly web of gay human mal, " says Parris. And you're tellg me Tt isn't gay?

WAR ON WHIMSY: NO, TT ISN’T GAY

Be warned: Parts of the article have that weird, high-spired Brish stereotypg of gay men that go on over there: "His Belgian creator, Hergé, whose only and enigmatic reference to Tt's origs was to scribe him as havg recently e out of the Boy Suts.

NO. TT ISN’T GAY.

Aren’t all children’s rtoons maskg sublimal gay msag tend to nvert heterosexual boys and girls to same-sex lovg adolcents? And now, The Adventur of Tt‘s tle character wasn’t jt rryg gay unrston — he supposedly was gay.

But was our spunky hero a homo? Former polin and wrer Matthew Parris – who is also gay – says the evince is “overwhelmg”. “And you’re tellg me Tt isn’t gay?

“As psychologists will nfirm, this is mon among young gay men, some of whom fd hard to believe that they really are their parents’ child. It is not enough that revisnist hack historians are transposg today’s hypersexualized climate onto male iendships of the past, sistg that Abraham Lln mt have been gay or “bi-sexual” or that Jonathan and David mt have been lovers. ) Shakpeare is also full of homoeroticism, apparently—pecially if you are the type of amic who has never relquished the adolcent abily to see everythg as sexual.

OF URSE TT’S GAY. ASK SNOWY

And now, I’ve disvered, ’s been “revealed” that the beloved European adventurer Tt is gay, as well. But then, unfortunately, I clicked on the Bs Insir lumn that explaed – “revealed, ” per the headle – that Tt was gay. The “theory” was put forward by Brish gay rights activist Matthew Parris, and is broken down by Bs Insir thly:.

IS TT GAY? CARTOON BIRTHDAY BOY DOGGED BY MOURS

As psychologists will nfirm, this is mon among young gay men, some of whom fd hard to believe that they really are their parents’ child. The “changelg” syndrome is a well-known gay fantasy…. Next, Parris claims that Tt’s close iendship wh Capta Haddock mt be of a homosexual nature, bee (as I’ve wrten before), te iendship seems to be somethg nceivable to some gay activists.

It tak the very brieft of glanc at life and work of Ge Remi to answer the nuendo-lan qutns that Parris prents as irrefutable proof that Tt, a fictnal character, was gay. That is why the LGBTQ lobby has been phg Disney for so long to portray a gay character one of their children’s films.

That is why activists lnched a petn beggg the children’s show Same Street to announce that Ernie and Bert were gay, elicg a rather osty rponse which the creators remd the activists that the characters were puppets, “created to teach prchoolers that people n be good iends, ” and furthermore, that puppets do not exist below the waist.