Hans Christian Anrsen's Ltle Mermaid Is Really About Gay Love

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).

His homosexual relatnships seem to have been sequential, non-overlappg, emotnal, and monogamo.

HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN GAY PRI CELEBRATN PLAN SPARKS ROW IN DENMARK

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.

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 WAS A GAY VIRG

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.

HAMBURG – Danish fairy tale wrer Hans Christian Anrsen was gay but may never have acted on his homosexual tennci, acrdg to a new bgraphy published to ci wh the 200th anniversary of Anrsen’s birth. The book, which will be published English April, stat that Anrsen had fatuatns wh both men and women but uld not brg himself to overe societal strictur agast homosexualy even if he uld not brg himself to marry a woman. Many of the fairy tal may be read as gay allegori, and some are clearly tobgraphil.

HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN GAY PRI CELEBRATN PLAN SPARKS ROW IN DENMARK

It was not until 1893 that his sexualy was publicly discsed, when a newspaper hted that he may have been a homosexual. In 1901, an article Magn Hirschfeld’s Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen also discsed him as a homosexual.

Excerpts om My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the. Anrsen's bgrapher, Elias Bredsdorff, 1993 ed diari to argue that Anrsen never had sexual terurse but was a pulsive masturbator; Bredsdorff is uneasy wh the notn of "homosexual emotns" and therefore cl to label his subject gay.

Pomeroy, spected Anrsen was gay, and was shown by a scholar Copenhagen an immense pile of data and paper on Anrsen: "seeg the origal mancripts which the scholar posssed, Ksey uld say unequivolly that they were straight-out homosexual stori"; like the mute Ltle Mermaid, "Anrsen uld not tell the world of his own homosexual love for the people of the world, but the origal mancripts showed his feelgs clearly.