Is anyone in the outsiders gay

This has been an fascinating start to the Novel Year. We are counting down the days to when our world turns into The Plot Against Americaby Philip Roth while resolving to fight against fake news, hatred, and double standards. Also last October, S.E. Hinton, beloved writer of The Outsidersand one of the pioneers for Young Adult Fiction, took offense at the interpretation that Ponyboy and Johnny, her two main characters, were gay. Normally a story like this, wouldn’t have a sequel, but this one does. According to Twitter and multiple news sources, last week she got shirty with people asking for more LGBT charactersin her novels. S.E. Hinton, prefer Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and Christopher Paolini, represents who I wanted to be as a teenager. I wanted to have a novel that would lead to a book deal. I craved her tight narrative. She wrote a handful of novels and fleeting stories, before fading from the public eye. For the most part her Twitter feed shows frequent sense. This feels dissonant, the controversy and her feed. While authors aren’t necessarily nice, Hinton seemed it up to these points. We can’t just dismiss her deleted Twitter rant or condemn it. It requires a fu

The classic young mature person novel The Outsiders, a gritty saga about teenage gang rivalry, came out 50 years ago as of 2017, and it’s remained popular ever since. Though frequently challenged for its unvarnished depictions of aggression and teen substance abuse, it’s also often on syllabuses in high educational facility English classes.

But times have been a-changin’ since creator S.E. Hinton penned the book, drawn-out beloved by misfit teens, when she herself was a high schooler in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The novel, which depicts close, caring relationships between poor and rough-around-the-edges teen boys, lends itself particularly well to interpretations of homoeroticism and submerged gay relationship. Though many of Hinton’s fans are eager to browse these shades of queerness in her 50-year-old story, she has repeatedly, and controversially, denied that her characters are gay ― and last week, she went so far as to claim that she was “being attacked for being hetero.”

The Hinton-vs.-readers dustup over character orientation dates back to at least October, when she responded on Twitter to a young fan who asked outright whether Johnny Cade and Dally, two of the young toughs in the novel, were secretly in lo

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NONE OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE OUTSIDERS ARE LGBTQ+

Now, the staff team recognizes that many-if not the majority of the members here- ship characters with each other. While you are open to taking innovative liberties in your have personal thoughts, it has reached a point where we need to disseminate this and limit the posts about this.

FIRST

S.E. Hinton had said, time and time and time again, that none of the characters are gay for each other, nor others. They. Are. Not. Gay.

We get a lot of people here saying that “well, they might be bisexual”. Fair point, but still wrong.

Please respect the author’s intent. These are HER characters, HER creation. To skew her purpose for them is to disrespect both her and the book.

SECOND

Logically, we deserve to take these characters in context.

The year is 1965. The setting is in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Contemplate about it, the 1960s, where civil rights are still being fought for, in a town that would be considered the ‘Deep South’.

With that context, it is evident tha

Turning ‘The Outsiders’ Into a Musical Was a Mistake (Review)

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Remember The Outsiders? Most gay men and straight women over forty will. This is partly because Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 movie featured all of the matinee hunks of the eighties: Steal Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, and Patrick Swayze.

Another reason? S.E. Hinton’s young elder novel of the matching name has been required reading in high schools around the country since it was released in 1967. Its popularity has soared over the last few years. BBC News has classified it as one of the superior 100 most influential novels of all time.

So why shouldn’t it be turned into a musical? Broadway has a full season of literary adaptations currently underway. The creative teams of The Notebook, Liquid for Elephants, and The Great Gatsby have all drawn inspiration from their best-selling book counterparts, and each have high hopes for Tony nominations. In the case of The Outsiders, however, the modern Broadway musical treatment is not the best way to serve the story.

According to a recent New York Times article, “The idea to musicalize

By Steve Weddle

This week, S.E. Hinton was asked on Twitterwhether she'd intended for two characters in her novel, The Outsiders, to be gay.

I spent years in academia, arguing that the alabaster whale was Jesus, that Holden Cauliflower was a communist, that Nathaniel Hawthorne was readable. Heck, five years ago at this very site, I wrote a thing about "what the creator meant."

And I've seen many, many, many authors get overcome about on Twitter for saying things about their possess writing. One sci-fi author caused trouble when he said he didn't assume he was very good writing women's voices. Another best-selling author was in the middle of trouble when he was asked why he, a alabaster guy, didn't compose more about race in his novels. The author said, well, you comprehend, I don't contain many black friends. And so on and so on. You could use days reading the results of "author twitter controversy."

Which brings us back to Hinton.

As a alabaster , cisgen middle-class dude, I had plenty of people to identify with in books. At times, it seems to me that nearly all of the books in the stores, on the shelves, being reviewed are books written by people fond of me about people like me. While I was writing this p