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Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Male lover Men
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And maybe, sometimes, there's a happy ending and everything works out like in a fairy tale and everything is joyful. Even if it's fraught in the middle, there's a silver lining and every boy gets his handsome prince, because Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men by Peter Cashorali. I never would have read this on my possess, but Laura peruse it and she told me Rumpelstiltskin, which, to summarize:
A miller brags excessively: "My nephew can turn 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 complete of destroyed furniture. The nephew cries because he can't turn shit into gold, when a funny little human dressed all in leather appears. The funny little bloke says, "I comprehend how you can fix the prince, but in exchange, I will hold all your happiness." The nephew decides that's a just trade, considering, and he says, "How do I change the prince into gold?"
"Well," says the funny little dude, "when he comes back into the room, he's going to tr
Gay Love and Other Fairy Tales
Jordan Ortiz decides he can no longer conceal who he truly is. He’s same-sex attracted. 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 same-sex attracted 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 covert. When they won an award at the science unbiased in grade nine, Jordan hugged him, and that’s when Ben realized he had feelings for Jordan.
As he watches Jordan approach out and petal into who he is, he can’t help but perceive 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 meeting a peasant teen or girl and falling in love has been given a makeover in a new book 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 work in the motion picture industry and the pair wrote the book based on Reynold’s idea for a story that embraces the idea that two boys could fall in love and overcome adversity that is not related to their sexuality - with an adventure along the way.
The say the story had to withstand on its own and the fact that the characters are gay is incidental.
“I think we were aware of the fairy tale tropes, we recognize 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 boy 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 rule her and get dominate of the kingdom and the Pro
Archer Magazine
Once upon a time, there wasn’t a single queer person in the world, so there was no need to converse about them in stories…
Wait, what?
Image: Walter Crane illustration of Trusted Heinrich (right) and his prince
For as long as humans include had voices, folk and fairy tales have been spoken aloud around the fire. Stories to make sense of the society, to teach us which animalistic men to avoid, or how to be a pure, virtuous beauty in order to beat 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 receive it. I love fairy tales, too: these fascinating windows into a