Disney's Ltle Mermaid Remake Should Honor the Tale's Gay Legacy

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THE LTLE MERMAID'S ORIGAL STORY IS REALLY ABOUT GAY LOVE AND REJECTN

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Which is puzzlg, bee the origal fairy tale by Hans Christian Anrsen is one of the sadst (gay) love letters of all time. ace, aro, bisexual, f-f, fairy-tal, fantasy, gay, glbt, glbtq, tersex, lbian, lgbt, lgbtqai, m-m, magil-creatur, merfolk, mermaid, mermaids, merman, mermen, merpeople, ocean, paranormal, queer, romance, sea, selkie, siren, supernatural, trans, transgenr, transmen, transwomen, urban-fantasy, water. 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. 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. 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.

THE LTLE MERMAID IS REALLY ABOUT UNREQUED GAY LOVE

In honor of Gay Pri Month take a look at some of our favore piec of young lerature that jt might have a secret msage for LGBT kids. * gay little mermaid book *

The Ltle Homo Sapiens Scientist. Greenwell se as “her gayt novel”:. Murdoch is famo for the plentiful and humane reprentatn of lbian and gay characters her novels; but none of her other novels is a same-sex relatnship explored so eply, and no other is a marriage—and is a marriage—between two men allowed to bee the center of a moral world.

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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… * gay little mermaid book *

This is a remarkable act of affirmatn a book published 1970, jt three years after the crimalizatn of private homosexual acts the Uned Kgdom; more remarkable still is that remas, fifty years later, perhaps the most betiful lerary reprentatn of a same-sex marriage I know. Forster might want to check out Matthew Lopez’s play The Inherance, a “revisng” of Forster’s novel Howard’s End set “21st-century New York, [and followg] the terlkg liv of three generatns of gay men searchg for a muny of their own—and a place to ll home.

Author Dale Peck penned a ntroversial say for The New Republic cricizg gay printial ndidate Pete Buttigeig, g an onle backlash which led to the magaze’s removal of the piece. The Atlantic’s Jim Downs profiled Craig Rodwell, who opened the world’s first gay bookstore—which helped birth the victori of Stonewall—two years before the rts happened. ” And John Rechy spoke wh Los Angel Magaze’s Jason McGahan about “LA’s oft-fotten gay uprisg” 1958, and “why he still bristl at the term post-Stonewall.

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 SUBTEXT THE LTLE MERMAID? STORI WH A SECRET MSAGE FOR QUEER YOUTH

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. 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.

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