Was The Ltle Mermaid wrer Hans Christian Anrsen gay?

Contents:

• THE LTLE MERMAID'S ORIGAL STORY IS REALLY ABOUT GAY LOVE AND REJECTN
• HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN GAY PRI CELEBRATN PLAN SPARKS ROW IN DENMARK
• HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN WAS A GAY VIRG
• HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN GAY PRI CELEBRATN PLAN SPARKS ROW IN DENMARK

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

Some bgraphers – cludg Jackie Wullschlager and Alison Prce – are nvced that Anrsen’s of homosexualy. The romance plot they renstct th rists a Victorian norm the genr of Scharf’s lovers, but  other ways is “legible the terms of the lerary and cultural romance plots that make agatn for gay marriage so pellg for many” (Michie and Warhol 111).

HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN GAY PRI CELEBRATN PLAN SPARKS ROW IN DENMARK

His homosexual relatnships seem to have been sequential, non-overlappg, emotnal, and monogamo. But all the s tacly assume that if he engaged a homosexual relatnship, would be wh one person at a time: the potential relatnships wh Edvard Coll, Edward Müller, Henrik Stampe, and Harald Scharff are non-overlappg.

HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN WAS A GAY VIRG

In the terveng centuri, “The inty of the masturbator was only one of the sexual inti subsumed, erased, or overridn this triumph of the homo/hetero lcul” (Sedgwick 826). 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.

HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN GAY PRI CELEBRATN PLAN SPARKS ROW IN DENMARK

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. A ntroversial effort to honor the life of fairy tale thor Hans Christian Anrsen wh a lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) ftival his native Denmark has sparked a row between lol policians and The Telegraph is reportg, the gay-themed, week-long Anrsen celebratn was the brachild of Tre Bramsen, a member of the untry's parliament, who believ the LGBT lerary gala would attract more visors to the town of Onse on the island of Funen, where the thor was born 1805. "It should be a week where gays om all over the world n e to the island of Funen.