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'FRIED TOMATO' DOWNPLAYS THE GAY ASPECT
Bh office and a disease killg gay men while the ernment stood by and watched, felt like another example of shame-filled erasure to some.
"Dpe cricism om some the gay muny that "Tomato" sisteps the issue, the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn nohels plans to honor the movie for s "lbian ntent. But the book mak clear that Idgie was gay and that she and Ruth were together (or would be) when Ruth sent Idgie that biblil verse. I am old enough to rell a time--not as far back as this was set, md you--when beg gay was nsired by mastream US culture to be almost as unnatural as sex wh farm animals.
There are many, many gay upl who stayed together durg eras of the past, whout ever actually acknowledgg why they are each other's fay. I thk this jt shows how people view upl the gay muny, their ey gloss over the hard tth bee they don't want to thk their favore characters swg that way.
IS IDGIE GAY IN FRIED GREEN TOMATO?
I don't thk the fact that the thor was purposely unclear about the relatnship has anythg to do wh disrpect to the gay/lbian muny. An terview even Flagg said that she was purposely unclear due to not wantg to be labeled gay/lbian, not wantg to be banned, not wantg to be the ma foc, and for lack of unrstandg the 80s.
Lbian/homosexual inty wouldn't have been prevalent the settg of this novel, aga the passag make fairly obv to anyone who has ever been a relatnship as to the nature of the character's feelgs.