Gay fairy
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Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men
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 full of destroyed furniture. The nephew cries because he can't turn shit into gold, when a humorous little man dressed all in leather appears. The funny tiny man says, "I know how you can fix the prince, but in exchange, I will take all your happiness." The nephew decides that's a just trade, considering, and he says, "How do I turn the prince into gold?"
"Well," says the funny little man, "when he comes back into the room, he's going to try to hit you."
"Should I hit him
fairy -- gay man?
(a) Fairy= 'homosexual man' takes me back ...
(b) ... to about 1975, which was the last time I remember hearing it used seriously~ by my brother. He was 14 at the time; I was a winsome chit of 11 ...
(c) ... in fact, my mind's ear can only hear young boys using it of other adolescent boys ~ when used seriously, this is ~ ...
(d) ... I suspect(this is all based on Gut Stuff still) that if anyone does still use it seriously, it's primarily straight boys/men of other straight boys/men (who are likely to be offended by it, if it happens not to be true), but that it tends to be more a slur on a chap's courage/masculinity rather than his sexuality, more or less equivalent to AmE wuss, which isn't yet naturalized in this country. I might even use it myself prefer that occasionally ...
(e) ... however if I wanted to insult or even merely offenda fellow fairyfellow I reckon I'd contain to come up with something muchmeatier than a mere flimsy fairy. I can't (seriously) imagine any British gay man existence offended by it ~ unless they were deliberately setting out to be offended.O
“Fairy” is a ordinary term of homophobic abuse that queer men have reclaimed as a symbol of their magic powers. Since the 1970’s “fairy” or “faerie” has been used as a positive name for radical gay self. Fairies are historically linked with gender transgression and homoeroticism in the pagan cultures of Europe. The related designation “faggot” is derived from fagus, the beech tree around which fairies dance.[1] Faeries soar with queer spirit.
Eros, Ancient Greece, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
In ancient Greece, the winged gods Eros and Hermes stand for the archetype. Eros is the androgynous god described by Plato as the craving and pursuit of wholeness.”[2] Hermes is the god of crossroads, limits and thresholds. Today, queers represent this liminal realm. Lodging in the cosmos between established alternatives – male and female, visible and invisible, possible and impossible – we guide souls from the constricting limits of what is, to the unknown, unknowable, but nevertheless yearned-for possibility of going beyond this.
Fairies have a inconsistent nature – they fulfill humble tasks, yet possess remarkable powers. Like lgbtq+ people, they are prone to sudden transformation