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Gay Love and Other Fairy Tales
Jordan Ortiz decides he can no longer cover who he truly is. He’s queer . He comes out to his family, and then he comes out to everyone. It goes well. Like, way better than he thought possible! But that’s about where it ends. There aren’t enough "out gay" kids at school for him to build a queer social animation or even think about the possibility of dating. For now, he’s happy to be the lgbtq+ bestie for his BFF Hannah.
Benjamin Cooper is the captain of the football team and known Jordan for almost his whole life. And he has a confidential. When they won an award at the science reasonable in grade nine, Jordan hugged him, and that’s when Ben realized he had feelings for Jordan.
As he watches Jordan reach out and plant into who he is, he can’t help but sense ashamed - ashamed at what a coward he is compared to Jordan. When a broken leg and fair-weather friends leave Ben feeling lonely on Christmas break, he spends New Year’s Eve with Jordan, just hanging out in his basement like they used to, years ago.
But as the countdown to midnight happens, and the ball is about to drop, Ben has something else in mind. At the stroke of midnight, he kisses Jordan. What starts with a
The classic fairy tale of a prince or princess gathering a peasant male child or girl and falling in adoration has been given a makeover in a new guide for children.
It begins: "Once upon a time, in a land not far away, a place where no one cared if you were straight or you were gay."
Promised Land is written and published by Adam Reynolds and Chaz Harris of Wellington.
They both operate in the movie industry and the pair wrote the book based on Reynold’s idea for a story that embraces the thought that two boys could fall in love and overcome adversity that is not connected to their sexuality - with an adventure along the way.
The say the story had to stay on its hold and the proof that the characters are gay is incidental.
“I think we were aware of the fairy tale tropes, we comprehend what's there normally and choosing in certain areas to subvert those tropes - so often there’s the damsel in distress so, well, let’s execute that right now!”
The story is about a farm young man and a prince who meet in a forest one day and their friendship soon blossoms into love.
The prince’s mum, the queen, meets a sinister man named Gideon who puts a spell on her to control her and get supervise of the kingdom and the Pro
Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men
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And maybe, sometimes, there's a joyful ending and everything works out like in a fairy tale and everything is happy. Even if it's fraught in the middle, there's a silver lining and every male child gets his handsome prince, because Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Lgbtq+ Men by Peter Cashorali. I never would acquire read this on my own, but Laura browse it and she told me Rumpelstiltskin, which, to summarize:
A miller brags excessively: "My nephew can change shit into gold." The king happens to be walking by and says, "My son is total shit. Send your nephew by the castle tonight." The nephew goes to the castle, and is left in the prince's room full of destroyed furniture. The nephew cries because he can't twist shit into gold, when a funny little guy dressed all in leather appears. The funny tiny man says, "I comprehend how you can correct the prince, but in exchange, I will receive all your happiness." The nephew decides that's a fair trade, considering, and he says, "How perform I turn the prince into gold?"
"Well," says the funny little man, "when he comes back into the room, he's going to tr
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Once upon a time, there wasn’t a single queer person in the world, so there was no need to chat about them in stories…
Wait, what?
Image: Walter Crane illustration of Trusted Heinrich (right) and his prince
For as long as humans contain had voices, folk and fairy tales have been spoken aloud around the fire. Stories to make sense of the earth, to teach us which animalistic men to avoid, or how to be a pure, virtuous beauty in order to defeat a marriage (which, as we all know, is the only way to measure your worth).
These tales came alive anew in each storyteller’s mouth. But someone decided to write them down with ink on a page, and while society continued to change and evolve, the stories dried, dark as a stain.
However, our fascination with them has remained.
Turn a few hundred pages forward in the history books, and we find ourselves in a time where queers are more able to make themselves known (though certainly not universally); and we’re still picking up The Brothers Grimm. People telling stories now read from printed texts, rather than reciting them as best they recall.
I become it. I love fairy tales, too: these fascinating windows into a