Yterday at Salon, Caleb Cra, thor of the highly praised novel Necsary Errors, talked a b about beg a gay novelist and the effects non-heterosexual subject matter has on the chanc for a novel’s publitn. In rponse to a qutn…
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- ‘THE OUTSIRS’ THOR S.E. HTON IS HOT WATER WH GAY-RIGHTS SUPPORTERS
- S.E. HTON: NO, 'THE OUTSIRS' WEREN'T GAY LOVERS
- ‘OUTSIRS’ AUTHOR ANSWERED QUTNS ABOUT CHARACTERS BEG GAY. SOCIAL MEDIA WASN’T HAPPY WH ANSWERS.
- 80S GAYS. TELL ME ABOUT THE OUTSIRS
‘THE OUTSIRS’ THOR S.E. HTON IS HOT WATER WH GAY-RIGHTS SUPPORTERS
Hton, who wrote “The Outsirs” when she was high school — was published 1967 — has ntued to wre novels for young adults and has more than 40, 000 Twter the rear replied he thought a relatnship between the two teenagers would be “cute, ” Hton tweeted, “ask someone the ‘60’s how ‘cute’ was to be gay. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macch (as Johnny) and Matt Dillon (as Dallas) Twter, Hton doubled down on her assertn that the characters weren’t gay, wrg, “I have no problem wh anyone beg gay. No, they are not gay.
”One rear lled Hton’s rpons “trash, ” wrg, “Why would you reject young gay kids terpretg your characters a way that mak them feel safe?
”“Young gay kids n intify wh the book whout me sayg the characters are gay, ” Hton replied. ”Hton spent much of Monday rpondg to rears who were upset wh her tweets, reeratg that the characters were straight and nyg that she harbored homophobic feelgs. Yterday at Salon, Caleb Cra, thor of the highly praised novel Necsary Errors, talked a b about beg a gay novelist and the effects non-heterosexual subject matter has on the chanc for a novel’s publitn.
S.E. HTON: NO, 'THE OUTSIRS' WEREN'T GAY LOVERS
In rponse to a qutn about needg a “gay non” of lerature, Cra said, “The straight non is very gay… I don’t read somebody bee they’re a gay wrer.
” It’s te that seems silly and rctive to sist on settg gay wrers apart om their straight hort (although dog so n help raise awarens that they do, fact, exist), pecially sce there’s enough queer subtext popular lerature already.
‘OUTSIRS’ AUTHOR ANSWERED QUTNS ABOUT CHARACTERS BEG GAY. SOCIAL MEDIA WASN’T HAPPY WH ANSWERS.
Rowlg waed nveniently until the publitn of her most recent book to reveal, perhaps too enthiastilly, that Alb Dumbledore was gay. Hton’s classic about rough-and-tumble teenage lquents 1960s Tulsa, and while the book is equently banned nsirg all the vlence, bad language, and unrage smokg and drkg, the homoerotic unrton of those boys’ bromanc have fely evad plenty of rears. Strangers on a Tra by Patricia HighsmhPatricia Highsmh was no stranger to homosexual overton — her antihero Tom Ripley was, sentially, a gay monster, and she even dipped her toe to the lbian bildungsroman genre — but her thriller Strangers on a Tra was a b more subtle s pictn of one man’s murro obssn wh another.
80S GAYS. TELL ME ABOUT THE OUTSIRS
Danvers, who is so obssed wh her former employer, the tular Rebec Wter, that one n’t help but read a b to the way she gently strok her perfectly kept nightcloth across her Club by Chuck PalahniAs this say pots out, ’s hard to claim that Fight Club has a gay subtext, as there is nothg particularly subtle about s homoeroticism. The symbolism of Tyler splicg scen om hardre porn is a pretty good metaphor for Chuck Palahni trickg the macho lerary dience to lovg a pretty queer of Grass by Walt WhmanNoted homosexual Walt Whman clud several turns of phrase his llectn of poetry voted to the love of the male form, and l like, “O how shall I warble myself for the ad one there I loved?
” om “When Lilacs Last the Dooryard Bloom’d” — his o to the Civil War’s ad, particularly Abraham Lln — is jt the tip of the fey Budd by Herman Melville Let’s jt take a look at this passage om Melville’s novella, via Dana Sliva’s paper “Explorg Homoeroticism Herman Melville’s Novella Billy Budd, Sailor, ” which explas all:Claggart, the master-at-arms, official rattan hand, happened to be passg along…Steppg over [the soup], he was proceedg on his way whout ment, sce the matter was nothg to take notice of unr the circumstanc, when he happened to observe who was that had done the spillg…Psg, he was about to ejaculate somethg hasty at the sailor, but checked himself, and potg down to the streamg soup, playfully tapped him om behd wh his rattan, sayg a low mil voice peculiar to him at tim, ‘Handsomely done, my lad!
LawrenceSure, the women of the tle — the unfortunately named Ursula and Gudn Brangwen — are ed love wh the typilly broodg Englishmen, but one nnot possibly ny the homosexual overton the nu wrtlg which Rupert Birk and Gerald Crich gleefully take Great Gatsby by F. I read some of the var Twter threads which the thor discs whether or not her characters are gay.