Was Hans Christian Anrsen's 'The Ltle Mermaid' a metaphor for unrequed gay love?

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THE LTLE MERMAID'S ORIGAL STORY IS REALLY ABOUT GAY LOVE AND REJECTN

The Ltle Mermaid's Origal Story Is Really About Gay Love and Rejectn. However, Disney's animated movie is self an adaptatn and actually has several differenc when pared to the origal story, which scholarly terpretatns have analyzed may actually be a metaphor for unrequed gay love. Let's take a look at Anrsen's fairy tale and the symbolism embedd the story, and see how uld very well reflect a gay thor feelg out of place a heterosexual world.

Rictor Norton, an thor who foc on LGBTQ lerary history, noted his 1998 book "My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuri, " that the story of Anrsen's life was reflected "The Ltle Mermaid.

‘THE LTLE MERMAID’ ORIGALLY MEANT AS GAY LOVE LETTER TO AUTHOR’S CSH

"My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuri.

Heartbroken and homosexual, Hans Christian Anrsen wrote this story about his Art of ‘The Ltle Mermaid’ by ThkAnneThk (Instagram Acunt)Hans Christian Anrsen was many thgs.

Excerpts om My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the. Anrsen's bgrapher, Elias Bredsdorff, 1993 ed diari to argue that Anrsen never had sexual terurse but was a pulsive masturbator; Bredsdorff is uneasy wh the notn of "homosexual emotns" and therefore cl to label his subject gay.

THE LTLE MERMAID IS REALLY ABOUT UNREQUED GAY LOVE

Pomeroy, spected Anrsen was gay, and was shown by a scholar Copenhagen an immense pile of data and paper on Anrsen: "seeg the origal mancripts which the scholar posssed, Ksey uld say unequivolly that they were straight-out homosexual stori"; like the mute Ltle Mermaid, "Anrsen uld not tell the world of his own homosexual love for the people of the world, but the origal mancripts showed his feelgs clearly. " The followg letters ver Anrsen's later "homosexual emotnal" relatnship wh the Heredary Grand-De of Weimar, whom he met at the theatre Weimar, and spent three weeks wh him at Ettersburg 1844.

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THE LTLE MERMAID WAS ORIGALLY A GAY “LOVE LETTER” TO THE THOR’S CSH

Rictor Norton, a wrer who foc on LGBTQ+ history, noted his 1998 book My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuri that the story of Anrsen’s love life was reflected the fairytale.

It’s difficult to fe Han Christian Anrsen’s queer inty, and var people have argued he was bisexual, biromantic or gay. And the film’s most proment mil number, “Part of Your World, ” is now a queer anthem, which was sred by Alan Menken wh lyrics om the late, great gay songwrer Howard to 2023, and Disney, now celebratg a banner year wh the stud’s 100th anniversary, is releasg the highly anticipated live-actn versn of The Ltle Mermaid starrg Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, Jonah Her-Kg, Awkwafa, Daveed Diggs, and Javier Barm.

THE LTLE MERMAID WAS A LOVE LETTER TO THE THOR’S GAY CSH

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