For much of the 20C 'fairy' was ed to mean 'gay'. Where do this sense e om and when was first ed? Probably the US's east ast the late 19C.
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WHY THIS CHARMG GAY FAIRYTALE HAS BEEN LOST FOR 200 YEARS
It’s long been prumed by historians and folklorists that heroic LGBTQ characters simply didn’t exist. But when one ancient gay fairytale was disvered, one amic has explas they were actually eded out of history as recently as the 1960s. * gay fairy boy *
“The Dog And The Sailor” is a gay fairytale lost for over 200 years, after narrowly ped beg...
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But one newly released gay fairytale, that n be traced back to at least the 19th century has been disvered by Pete Jordi Wood, the Cornish wrer and illtrator.
His rearch suggts that not only did gay fairytale “The Dog And The Sailor” exist but that a “whole chunk of LGBTQ folklore” was “leted” by one homophobic man, as recently as the 1950s.
MORE FROM FORBESTalkg About Your Pronouns Is One Easy Way To Be A Transgenr AllyBy Jamie WarehamGay fairytal have always existed, but some have been eded out of history.
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