Was josephine gay in anne of green gables

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 interpret 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 not many 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 concise, in 2000, professor Laura Robinson published a sheet named “Bosom Friends: Lesbian Want in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne Books,”

was josephine gay in anne of green gables

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Chapter XVIII

Miss Josepine Remembers the Anne-girl

When Christmas holidays came the girls of Patty's Place scattered to their respective homes, but Aunt Jamesina elected to stay where she was.

"I couldn't go to any of the places I've been invited and take those three cats," she said. "And I'm not going to exit the poor creatures here alone for nearly three weeks. If we had any decent neighbors who would feed them I might, but there's nothing except millionaires on this street. So I'll wait here and keep Patty's Place warm for you."

Anne went home with the usual joyous anticipations -- which were not wholly fulfilled. She set up Avonlea in the grip of such an preliminary, cold, and stormy winter as even the "oldest inhabitant" could not recall. Green Gables was literally hemmed in by vast drifts. Almost every sunlight of that ill-starred vacation it stormed fiercely; and even on fine days it drifted unceasingly. No sooner were the roads broken than they filled in again. It was almost impossible to stir out. The A.V.I.S. tried, on three evenings, to have a party in honor of the college students, and on each evening the storm was so wi

Character: Josephine Barry 

From: Anne the Series/Anne With an E 

Representation: Lesbian

Their Importance: Josephine Barry is introduced toward the end of the first season of Anne the Series, a CBC/Netflix collaborative retelling of LM Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. At first, she is a bit cold, staying with her brother and his family after the death of her dearest companion and roommate. She quickly warms up to the main character, taking her under her wing and, by the end of her first episode, showing that she is actually in mourning for her experience partner, Gertrude. While she is not a main traits in the exhibit, Josephine’s appearance is never insignificant, as she shows herself to be a compassionate individual: assisting friends in financial difficulties, encouraging the creativity and self-determination of her niece and friends, and providing a protected haven for other LGBT members. 

Not only do you still rarely see older, LGBT characters in media but to see one in a period piece is especially extraordinary but also so welcome.

Thanks to @mimblulusmimbletonia95 for the record up! 

Источник: https://representativecharacters.tumblr.com/post/182557

UNPOPULAR OPINION

I didn’t like the way this series dealt with homosexuality.

Before anyone starts accusing me of homophobia, I’d like to make it transparent that I don’t think people should be condemned or looked down upon just because they’re gay. However, I DO think acting for them in fiction is something delicate that has to be done cautiously, for the sake of those who both support and rival the LGBTQA... community.

So, what’s my problem with THIS series in particular?

Maybe I should begin by giving a brief recap of the ‘queerness’ in this show...

So, ‘Anne with an E’ portrays two male lover characters: Josephine Barry, great-grandmother of the protagonist’s best friend; and Cole McKenzie, a classmate of the two girls.

Josephine is revealed to have secretly ‘married’ another woman named Gertrude, whom she lived with for a long day. A topic in the series is how the latter died recently, which sank Jo into a state of grief that led her to call on Diana and her family. Eventually, she attends a party at HER property, in which there’s toast to the lesbian couple. This is where she and Anne find about the classified romance. Even if her best partner is weirded out by it initiall

I always liked the titular main character in Anne of Green Gables. But the CBC’s Anne with an E made me love her. 

As a kid, I watched the mid-’80s screen adaptations, and I’m sure Anne’s creative soul inspired me to turn into a writer. I own gleefully visited the real-life Green Gables on Prince Edward Island more than once. I even retain some cherished hardcover versions of the novels, but, I have to confess, I haven’t read them all. Truth be told, growing up, I was more of an Emily of New Moon girlie. After all, as Natasha Lyonne’s character in Russian Doll puts it: “Everybody loves Anne, but I like Emily. She’s dark.”

Though Anne has a tragic backstory just like Emily, the Green Gables main character is keen to find the best in people. She falls deeply in love with just about everything around her: P.E.I’s landscapes, the enormous words she learns in school and her top friends. I liked Anne, but for the cynical among us, the usual emphasis on her sunny outlook can be a little tedious. So when I heard that Anne with an E, the CBC’s adaptation of the story, did something alternative, I was intrigued. 

“It’s the only Anne that doesn’t make me roll my eyes,” my fr