Posted on 12/04/2014 9:32:33 AM PST by C19fan
Since Peter Pan’s first adventures to Neverland in 1904, by way of the Duke of York’s Theatre in London, his story has been retold in countless variations on stage, page, and screen. More recent versions, including tonight's Peter Pan Live! on NBC, have been rewritten in attempts to unburden the text of its disturbing racial stereotypes.
Peter himself has also been reincarnated many times over. Where his Edwardian roots cast him as an impish child, still with all his baby teeth, contemporary storytellers envision a prepubescent boy physically and emotionally tottering on the edge of teenagedom—that stepping stone to adulthood he both disdains and disavows. Peter has been Disney-fied and Universal-ized; with technological advancement he has gained access to an increasingly resplendent Neverland.
One of the few things that hasn’t changed in more than a hundred years: On stage, Peter is almost always played by a woman.
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Hey! Let's keep it accurate here! That's Bitter Womyn Studies, fella! :0)
A lot of homosexuals are going to see a boy who won't grow up and think, "That's a very attractive target. I like what I see."
Now, if you can get a woman to portray the boy, a lot of straight men might also watch and think, "I also like what I see."
In my opinion, it just serves to confuse the whole thing and cause people to feel that homosexuals and heterosexuals are not so very different from one another. In reality, however, heterosexuals are normal, and homosexuals have a mental illness.
Only a queer would look at Peter Pan and decide he’s a queer icon.
I thought Dorothy and her friends from the Wizard of Oz were gay icons?
Add Ernie and Bert.
lots of gays were in the animation dept at disney.
Clap if you believe in fairies, kids!
Well, let’s see. Peter Pan is a cross dresser who hangs out with fairies and kidnaps young boys. That does seem to be a bit unseemly, looked at from a certain perspective.
“On stage, Peter is almost always played by a woman.”
I thought is was because stagehands had to use ropes to fly Peter around and a girl weighed less.
Am I wrong?
Bart Simpson too
I had a similar email discussion the other day with someone along these lines. We had been discussing old movies and he was writing about his love of the old Laurel and Hardy movies. He wrote to me that there was a documentary called The Celluloid Closet, about homosexuality as depicted over the years in cinema. He said that L&H were underground heroes of the gay community. He pointed out one scene where Stan’s wife was annoyed with him (what’s new, right?), and he says to Ollie “She thinks I love you more than I love her.” And Ollie responds with something like, “Let’s not discuss that.” Now, Ollie’s response could just simply have been more in the nature of Let’s just not go that direction, but others saw it differently, I guess.
Anyway, my response to my friends was very much like yours: Only a deviant would look at the great Laurel and Hardy and see a gay couple.
Is that a golden dildo ?
Judy Garland may be a queer icon but I haven’t heard of the Wizard of Oz movie being queer. The actual book is about monetary policy, it opposes the silver standard being pushed by William Jennings Bryan (the cowardly lion).
Why must every single thing be sexualized, a perversely sexualized to boot!
I have heard queers call themselves "friends of Dorothy" but I also have never heard it said the movie has gay themes.
It’s a leftist thing.
So....the only known heteros in the Rocky & Bullwinkle show are Boris Badenov & Natasha Fatale?
“Boris, dahlink!” “Look, Natasha, iss moose and squirrel!”
This is one strange thread.....
;^)
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