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Contents:
- ARE FROG AND TOAD GAY? AUTHOR'S DGHTER SPEAKS UP
- ARE FROG AND TOAD GAY? BELOVED CHILDREN'S BOOKS WERE 'THE BEGNG OF COMG OUT' FOR AUTHOR ARNOLD LOBEL, DGHTER SAYS
- APPLE TV+ SAYS GAY RIGHTS, MAK FROG AND TOAD SHOW
- THE GAY HISTORY OF AMERI’S CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS
ARE FROG AND TOAD GAY? AUTHOR'S DGHTER SPEAKS UP
More than 45 years after we first learned that Frog and Toad Are Friends, Arnold Lobel's dghter, Adrianne, has suggted that Frog and Toad are gay. The late thor me out to his fay 1974, four years after he published the first of his… * are frog and toad gay *
More than 45 years after we first learned that Frog and Toad Are Friends, Arnold Lobel's dghter, Adrianne, has suggted that Frog and Toad are gay. Are Frog and Toad Gay?
ARE FROG AND TOAD GAY? BELOVED CHILDREN'S BOOKS WERE 'THE BEGNG OF COMG OUT' FOR AUTHOR ARNOLD LOBEL, DGHTER SAYS
Lobel's dghter Adrianne – who illtrated two of the late thor's books after his ath – suggted to The New Yorker that the pair may have been gay. Rowlg Has Perfect Rponse to Cric of Gay Dumbledore.
APPLE TV+ SAYS GAY RIGHTS, MAK FROG AND TOAD SHOW
Apple TV+ Says Gay Rights, Mak Frog and Toad Show. ” 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.
THE GAY HISTORY OF AMERI’S CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Among gay-themed children’s stori, they preferred “Frog and Toad. ” 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.