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Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer people have always been kickg around society; is nceivable that Jane Aten would never have met one.

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A MORN GAY TAKE ON 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' IS HEADG YOUR WAY

A new retellg of Pri & Prejudice om Jse Tyler Fergon, Jt Mika, and Zackary Grady is the gay adaptatn we've been wag for. * jane austen gay *

The most notor claim about Aten’s sexualy me 1995, when Terry Castle, profsor of English at Stanford Universy California, published an say lled Was Jane Aten Gay? She not only argued that the novelist was a lbian – but that she was at wh her sister, a review of Jane Aten’s Letters, eded by Deirdre Le Faye, Castle wrote: “The nventns of 19th-century female sociabily and body timacy may have provid the necsary screen behd which both women acted out unnsc narcissistic or homoerotic imperativ. “There was no unrstandg of the terms homosexual and lbian that would mirror ntemporary unrstandgs.

”Even when Geian women were gay, the phallocentric unrstandg of sexual timacy meant sex between them was nceivable. She quot Lord Meadowbank at an 1811 trial which two schoolmistrs were cleared of homosexualy bee “the crime here alleged has no existence”.

Amy Heckerlg’s cult classic Cluels (1995) replac Emma’s sendary romantic tert Frank Churchill wh Christian, a gay Californian teen.

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* The new movie Before the Fall, scribed as a “morn gay take” wh a “queer sp” on Aten, is set prent-day Virgia and was released on Amazon June. Jane Aten ’s Pri and Prejudice gets transported to the Amerin South “Before the Fall, ” a morn, gay-themed “reimagg” of the lerary classic. “Appalachia is nsistently picted on film as homophobic and vlent [but] the real world is much more plex than the stereotyp, ” he said.

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