Anne of green gable gay

Major spoilers below for Anne With an E season two. 

I really hated the first season of Anne With an E, which I wrote about in scathing detail on this very website. The short version of my loathing is: The remake hammers the soul and spirt out of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s beloved town and beloved characters, and mangles their tried and true storylines in the name of grit and edginess. There is, however, canonical gayness in Netflix’s reboot, and even more in season two, which landed last week. I like canonical gayness. I especially love it in a story that’s been read for a century as lgbtq+ by lots of lgbtq+ people. I didn’t enjoy that it was expressed at the expense of feminist icon and probable also gay lady Marilla Cuthbert in season one — but that’s enough complaining out of me.

Last season Diana explained lesbianism to Anne and it looked like this:

Diana: [My aunt Josephine] is disinclined to remain at home since her companion died.
Anne: Her companion?
Diana: Her finest friend forever and ever. Aunt Josephine never married. Neither of them did. They lived with each other their whole lives.
Anne: I’d inhabit with you

Early years

While Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30 1874 – April 24, 1942)  guide a successful and steady career as a writer,  some may be surprised to know of her tumultuous and complicated cherish life. Still, amid her strict Presbyterian upbringing, Montgomery’s personal life could be an entire book on its own, full of breaking hearts, secrecy, and romantic affairs.

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Nate Lockhart may have been the first boy to show idealistic interest in Maud.

Nate Lockhart was her close childhood friend in school when she was 14. He developed feelings and revealed them in a notice that they exchanged in class, which would be Montgomery’s very first cherish letter. He claimed that not only did he like her, but he loved her.

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I felt like a perfect idiot when I went endorse to school and I have no doubt I looked like one. I never so much glanced at Nate but plunged into fractions as if my whole soul was wrapped in them. (pg. 16 The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery Volume I: 1889-1910)

Montgomery only saw him as a companion, while realistically they couldn’t be a more flawless fit. He was the only one she could discuss Cavendish books with and she thought he was a good journalist

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Still from the 1985 film of Anne of Green Gables (Megan Follows and Richard Farnsworth)

When you’re feeling a bit down, what you really, really want is a coven of feminists with an encyclopaedic understanding of YA fiction through the ages. Luckily, I own such a thing, and last year, on one of those days when I was moping in bed with a cold, they put me onto the film versions of Anne of Verdant Gables. Weirdly, although I read the books years ago (and they’re free on Project Gutenberg, by the way, which is a lovely perk you get for reading stuff written in 1908), I’d never seen the films. I think I’d probably assumed they’d be travesties, a bit like the godawful TV adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books (note to anyone interested in adaptations: Pa is not a hunk. He does not have a square jaw and faraway gaze. We want no sex here. HTH). Plus, a cursory glance at the cover art of the Anne books through the decades shows just how bad things can get.

Obviously, you probably know I was wrong: the film of Anne is absolutely pitch-perfect and endearing and comical and just exactly what you necessitate to curl up with for a couple of

Anne of Green Gableswas always a book that my mom really wanted me to love, which meant introducing it to me too young, and me stubbornly refusing to study it. (I think I decided that I wouldn’t like it entirely based off the first sentence. Which, on reflection as an adult, is delightful.) I didn’t pick it up my entire childhood. It wasn’t until I was in my mid-twenties that I decided to give it a leave, and I found myself surprised by a several things: 1) my childhood self was wrong: it’s a delight, 2) Anne is not the Pollyanna figure I was assuming she was–her personality is much more complex and relateable than that, and 3) … it’s a little gay, isn’t it?

This is the edition I want, purely because of these endpapers.

Anne’s friendship with Diana definitely approaches the Victorian “romantic friendship” zone, at the very least. And I’m not the only one to notice! There’s even a Wikipedia page devoted to a gay Anne of Green Gables: the Bosom Friends Affair. In limited, in 2000, professor Laura Robinson published a sheet named “Bosom Friends: Lesbian Longing in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne Books,”

'Anne With an E' Adds Gay Characters to a Children's Classic

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When a classic children's publication gets turned into a TV series, it's usually a cause for celebration. Usually.

One of the most endearing and enduring books for kids is Anne of Green Gables, a 1908 novel about a Canadian orphan who is adopted by a brother and sister on Prince Edward Island.

It's been filmed a number of times over the years. And given the non-stop campaign to normalize the LGBT lifestyle, it should come as no surprise that the most recent version introduces several homosexual characters.

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The Netflix series, titled "Anne with an E," just began its second season. The episodes are charming—until you obtain to episode seven, in which Anne, her friend Diana Berry, and a boy named Cole attend a gathering at the dwelling of Diana's great-Aunt Josephine. It turns out the party is a "queer soiree," featuring men dressed as women, and wearing serious makeup, and women dressed as men. They are there to honor the memory of Josephine's departed "partner,