Fairy tale gay

These books feature a wide assortment of identities across the LGBTQ spectrum. Whatever your favorite fairytale, whatever sort of love story you hope to read, there really is a story for everyone. And with Pride Month in full swing, take a moment to something magical, timeless, and altogether new with one of must-read queer retellings. “The Dog And The Sailor” is a gay fairytale lost for over years, after it narrowly escaped being More.

It’s long been presumed by many folklorists that heroic LGBTQ characters. What it says in the title. This list is for LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans) fiction retellings of classic literature, fairy tales or mythology. A book’s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Want to Read saving Error rating book.

Here are seven queer fairy tale retellings for all of your magical needs! 1. Ash by Malinda Lo. If you've ever wanted a lesbian retelling of Cinderella, then this is the book for you. This. In addition to fairy tales, we added some of our favorite queer fantasy novels and stories, too. If this list is initially overwhelming, we were asked a really great question at the end of the Smithsonian talk that we’d like to share.

F or as long as humans have had voices, folk and fairy tales have been spoken aloud around the fire. Stories to make sense of the world, to teach us which animalistic men to avoid, or how to be a pure, virtuous beauty in order to win a marriage which, as we all know, is the only way to measure your worth. 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.

People telling stories now read from printed texts, rather than reciting them as best they recall. I get it. I love fairy tales, too: these fascinating windows into an uncanny archaic mindset. As a teenager, I loved the drama of them and sought them out. I read them in a way others might listen to true crime podcasts — aghast and riveted.

A frog did you a favour? Of course you must marry him. Thank goodness he turned back into the handsome prince he once was when you violently threw him against the wall! Into bed with you both!

the dog and the sailor fairy tale

Did you ever find yourself wondering if he was gay? We only meet Heinrich when the prince and princess have found their happily ever after. In his anger, he all but manifests a hybrid half-hedgehog child, then spends his life wishing him dead. This same story has a king promising his daughter to this half-hedgehog man and when she refuses, she is kidnapped by him, stripped naked and stuck with his quills.

H eteronormative constructs are rife in these tales. Marriage, children, class structures, the worth of a human deemed by their social standing, and otherness painted as ugly and evil. Eh, Belle? Even the Grimms revised seven editions over forty years to refine and include their Christian ideology.

I love the way my mind plays with the sparse details, often offered with no context. The space left by the bold and dramatic events is filled by so many questions. I long to state my own truths in such a brazen way. I recently edited Everything Under the Moon: Fairy tales in a queerer light , an anthology celebrating queer retellings of fairy tales.

It also includes a retelling of my own. When I approach rewriting a fairy tale, I like to ask what assumptions about the world are present in the version s in front of me, then interrogate them. R ewriting folk and fairy tales in a queer light is considered radical; however, there is nothing revolutionary about wanting representation in the stories we engage with. I love to question gender constructs, to question justifications, to question what it is that we should be aspiring to.

Michael Earp is a non-binary writer living in Naarm Melbourne. Archer Magazine needs your support! Read more stories about: sexuality , books facebook - twitter - Leave a Comment Cancel Reply. The Archer Magazine e-news delivers queer goodness to your inbox fortnightly!