In an terview wh Digal Trends, the creator and st of Gay Pri & Prejudice discs updatg the classic novel to a narrative podst wh an LGBTQ twist.
Contents:
- A MORN GAY TAKE ON 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' IS HEADG YOUR WAY
- JANE ATEN WASN’T GAY
- JANE ATEN MEETS MARRIAGE EQUALY GAY PRI & PREJUDICE PODST
- 'GAY PRI & PREJUDICE' TRAILER: JSE TYLER FERGON PREVIEWS NEW JANE ATEN ADAPTATN (EXCLIVE)
- GAY PRI & PREJUDICE CREATORS ON UPDATG JANE ATEN FOR THE PODST AGE
A MORN GAY TAKE ON 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' IS HEADG YOUR WAY
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer people have always been kickg around society; is nceivable that Jane Aten would never have met one. * was 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?
JANE ATEN WASN’T GAY
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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.
JANE ATEN MEETS MARRIAGE EQUALY GAY PRI & PREJUDICE PODST
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”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. * 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.
'GAY PRI & PREJUDICE' TRAILER: JSE TYLER FERGON PREVIEWS NEW JANE ATEN ADAPTATN (EXCLIVE)
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. Ultimately, Geiser hop viewers will be remd that “the basic human need to experience life wh the person you love is the same basic need for both straight and gay people” after viewg his film, which premiered at Reelg: The Chigo LGBTQ Internatnal Film Ftival September.
GAY PRI & PREJUDICE CREATORS ON UPDATG JANE ATEN FOR THE PODST AGE
“I feel a huge rponsibily as a filmmaker to prent gay characters who generate a strong, emotnal nnectn wh the dience, ” he said, “and who provi the dience wh an opportuny to abandon prejudic. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer people have always been kickg around society; is nceivable that Jane Aten would never have met one her lifetime.
(Photo by Culture Club/Getty Imag)Whether was ever Castle’s tentn to ll to qutn the sisters’ sexual orientatn – she later stated was not – there was seemgly enough the review to warrant a sub-edor on the perdil (wh one-eye on circulatn, no doubt) to tle the review “Was Jane Aten Gay?