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LARRY KRAMER: 'HOW ULD YOU NOT REALISE MARK TWA WAS GAY?'
Huck Fn, Tom Sawyer and Homosexualy. For example 's very easy to read a gay loveaffair to David Copperfield (David and Steerforth) but I'm not sure 'sthere (and I'm certaly sure that even if is, Dickens didn't tendthe mass of his rears to pick up on ). Huck do put on a drs at one crics have claimed there's a hidn gay relatnship between Jim andHuck.
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The people have var occupatns and preoccupatns, but they are unified by the thor’s animatg purpose, which, Kramer says, is “to wre a history of my Amerin people” people are gay, and they have mostly been ignored by nventnal history. ”“Most histori are wrten by straight people who wouldn’t know, see the signs that a gay person do when they look at a person’s life, ” Kramer said.
WAS TOM SAWYER OR HUCK FN GAY?
“I mean, how uld you wre the life of Mark Twa whout realisg that he was hugely, hugely gay?
I don’t know how you uld avoid the assumptn that he’s gay. )Other proment historil figur are also re-imaged (or re-stated) as gay. There are other wrers, like Melville, whose gayns is obv to Kramer.
This versn oms the tradnal homoromantic idyll on the island, sce, a terrible paradox, if Tom ever succeeds tablishg a nnectn wh Huck, will stroy the very “no-strgs” eedom that he fds so attractive. Updated: 10/22/2022Wiki User ∙ 13y agoNo; neher was their thor Samuel Clemens, aka Mark User ∙ 13y agoAdd your answer:Earn +20 ptsQ: Was Tom Sawyer or Huck Fn gay?