Contents:
- THE LTLE MERMAID'S ORIGAL STORY IS REALLY ABOUT GAY LOVE AND REJECTN
- THE LTLE MERMAID IS REALLY ABOUT UNREQUED GAY LOVE
- THE LTLE MERMAID IS GAY
THE LTLE MERMAID'S ORIGAL STORY IS REALLY ABOUT GAY LOVE AND REJECTN
And to ny the prence of diverse voic and fac on-screen, ni the efforts and talents of diverse voic behd the screen, cludg que a number of LGBT artists who ntributed to Disney’s repertoire such as gay and Jewish songwrer Howard Ashman, the poser behd the animated versns of The Ltle Mermaid and Bety and the Beast, and Andreas Deja, a proment character signer.
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.
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 IS REALLY ABOUT UNREQUED GAY LOVE
"My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuri. 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. 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. The ept origs of The Ltle Mermaid are actually gay, but that don’t mean havg a Black mermaid pursug a heterosexual relatnship is an accurate reprentatn that stroys the story any said, a movie about Anrsen’s own life wh a foc on his queer yearngs — and keepg as chaotic and msy as sounds like actually was — sounds like the next bt move for Hollywood.
And then maybe a gay adaptatn of The Ltle Mermaid to go along wh . There was one song particular that I would requt on repeat, and don't take a psychiatrist to cipher why a five-year-old gay boy would be so drawn to s lyrics:When's my turn?
THE LTLE MERMAID IS GAY
And what I didn't know then — and somethg I have thought about so often my adult life — was that the man rponsible for those lyrics (and so many rpects, that entire movie) was a gay man who would die of AIDS a ltle over a year after I first heard "Part of Your World. And really, to thk that an openly gay man serted a queer in to the sence of a lead character a Disney film the late 1980s is credibly radil. "Here I am, a gay man, and I'm workg on a movie for kids, and I didn't want to be fired.
And yet 's unniable that whout him they wouldn't exist, or at least they wouldn't have been the universally beloved sensatns that they, along wh The Ltle Mermaid, all Ashman was a gay man, secretly dyg om a disease that most of society refed to even acknowledge, who mtered somethg wh himself to alter the urse — and sentially save — Disney. A darker take on the story, but you may be askg what mak start, Hans Christian Anrson was gay.
”Elias Bredsdorff, Anrson’s bgrapher, was hant to ll the thor gay.