Now, an artist has posthumoly given Sendak the weddg he never had. Gay marriage was legalized Pennsylvania fall 2015. Mrice Sendak lived wh his partner psychoanalyst Eugene Glynn for 50 years, though he never told his parents that they were a uple. Artist Ella German chose to posthumoly give them the weddg they…
Contents:
- MRICE SENDAK: BEG GAY THE OLD DAYS WAS HARD, BEG GAY LATER WAS WEIRD.
- THE GAY HISTORY OF AMERI’S CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS
- WHERE THE WILD THGS ARE AUTHOR MRICE SENDAK: ‘I’M GAY’
MRICE SENDAK: BEG GAY THE OLD DAYS WAS HARD, BEG GAY LATER WAS WEIRD.
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THE GAY HISTORY OF AMERI’S CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS
He was probably gay but he married, and his wife hated me bee I was more famo than him. On homosexualy. His scribblgs have appeared var publitns om Woman's Weekly to Gay Tim, and he wrote the ‘Danza Italia' lumn for Dancg Tim magaze.
” It’s about a t who liv wh two gay men; you n tell by the book, then jt published, was evintly meant to help normalize already borgly normal fai like ours by g the tradnal substutn of animals for people orr to illtrate how much fun havg gay dads n be.
) And if you stopped to thk about , “Lucy” seemed to argue that the gay dads, however full of fun, were aquate: When the pa chips were down, they need rcug, too. Among gay-themed children’s stori, they preferred “Frog and Toad.
WHERE THE WILD THGS ARE AUTHOR MRICE SENDAK: ‘I’M GAY’
” No, I know: “Frog and Toad” — a seri of four picture books by Arnold Lobel, origally published between 1970 and 1979 — is not gay-themed. But ’s not not gay-themed eher. They get to scrap separately but get out of them together, which is not a bad fn of left: Jam Marshall, “Gee and Martha, ” urty of Houghton Miffl Harurt; Arnold Lobel, “Frog and Toad are Friends” © 1970 Arnold Lobel, ed by permissn of HarperColls Publishers; Jam Marshall, “Miss Nelson is Missg!, ” urty of Houghton Miffl HarurtOur boys loved the stori, as did we — but not bee Lobel was gay.
They ntued to make books together for years: a Frog and Toad tale if ever there was, Lobel’s gayns, when I learned of much later, seemed like somethg I should have known all along; lurked everywhere his words and pictur. Which is not to say Frog and Toad uld turn you gay.
They suggted, no ls to as gay parents than to our sons wh their polar personali, how separatens uld bee solidary and oddns acmodatn. However d the books’ gay ntent, was no surprise once d. It’s also that all of their thors were gay.