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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?
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.
ARE FROG AND TOAD GAY? BELOVED CHILDREN'S BOOKS WERE 'THE BEGNG OF COMG OUT' FOR AUTHOR ARNOLD LOBEL, DGHTER SAYS
” 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. ” 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.
APPLE TV+ SAYS GAY RIGHTS, MAK FROG AND TOAD SHOW
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.
THE GAY HISTORY OF AMERI’S CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS
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. As if that weren’t enough, he referred to the gay muny, who took him as one of their own whether he liked or not, as “l boys. Sss and Shel Silverste were prumably heterosexual, no matter that Silverste glowered om the photos on his book jackets like a hot Scff by permissn of HarperColls, urty of Children’s Lerature Collectn, UMNBut remas the se that the thors of many of the most succsful and fluential works of children’s lerature the middle years of the last century — works that were formative for baby boomers, Gen-Xers, lennials and beyond — were gay.
At a time when those wrers wouldn’t dare (as Paola recently told me) walk hand hand wh a lover, when only a straight children’s thor like Silverste uld get away wh publishg a story Playboy about life the homophile En that is Fire Island P, they won Caltt and Newbery Medals for books that, whout ever directly speakg their tth, sent out a secret language that was somehow accsible to those who need to receive . The works forted the proto-gay but also tenrized the proto-straight a way no other lerature ABOUT WHAT was happeng unr the ver of children’s lerature.