![]() 8 LGBTQ+ Fairytales From 2020 Dark And Deepest Red By Anna-Marie McLemore ![]() While a few of these eight LGBTQ+ fairytales (and legends) from 2020 have done away with happily ever afters and romance (though certainly not all), they all explore a queer once upon a time. Queer fairytale retellings can be a process of reclamation: reclaiming the inventive power of storyteller that was central to fairytales in their oral tradition, and also reclaiming queerness as fairytale-the romance, the happily ever after, the historical tradition. Their exaggerated heteronormativity beckons queer retellings, particularly as these stories have become the building blocks of narratives and storytelling for many readers and writers. ![]() In an interview, Melissa Bashardoust told me: “I love retellings that, as Angela Carter once described her own work, seek to ‘extract the latent content from the traditional stories and to use it as the beginnings of new stories.'” There’s so much latent queerness in fairytales. ![]()
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