Contents:
- ‘THE OUTSIRS’ THOR S.E. HTON IS HOT WATER WH GAY-RIGHTS SUPPORTERS
- PONYBOY WAS NOT GAY (NOT THAT THERE IS ANYTHG WRONG WH THAT!)
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
‘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.
PONYBOY WAS NOT GAY (NOT THAT THERE IS ANYTHG WRONG WH THAT!)
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.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
”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.
“Ask someone the ’60’s how ‘cute’ was to be gay, ” Hton, 68, rpond. “No, they are not gay. Subtexters, or people who see homosexual subtext a work of fictn (i.
A person who has homosexual preferenc ually don’t intify as a person who happens to be homosexual. “I am gay, ” they will more often say; or “I am queer. The fact that Hton, who was 18 years old when she wrote the book, didn’t wre any of the characters as gay don’t really matter to the Subtexters.