Emma is gay
When I was in college, I took a seminar on the works of Jane Austen. I was thrilled; my shame over not having read her previously was immense. I’d enjoyed both the BBC adaptation and Kiera Knightley-led version of Pride and Prejudice. It’s hard not to distinguish with Elizabeth Bennett, a headstrong and cantankerous lady who’s secretly a marshmallow. Watching these adaptations and ultimately reading Austen’s first novel, I oscillated wildly between wanting to be Elizabeth and wanting to be Mr. Darcy, the man with whom she falls in love.
Reading Jane Austen when not-straight is kind of frustrating: the women are mostly wonderful, witty and astute, and their inevitably male objects of affection are, good, not. (Yes, even Mr. Darcy). Women who don’t buy into or concern about the nonsense of men are Austen’s bread and butter, her unforgettable legacy—or at least, a very large part of it.
Emma possesses this same nonchalance, but does so with glee. Over at The Atlantic, Annika Neklason encapsulates what makes Emma such a dynamic character: “By virtue of circum
That’s right–I’m finally getting to my Queering the Canon undertaking. As I mentioned some time ago, in the many years since releasing Gay Pride & Prejudice, I’ve often contemplated turning my gay eye on other Western Classics. First on my list has always been Jane Austen’s Emma, due to the homoerotic subtext that’s so clear that more than one straight pale male critic in the 20th century noticed. Feminists in general and sapphic feminists in particular have long acknowledged Austen’s exploration of female friendship, and Emma offers so many different meditations on female friendship that shaping a queer variation requires very little operate indeed.
As I wrote on Patreon recently, I’ve received a fair amount of negative reaction to Gay Pride & Prejudice over the years, specifically regarding my choice to edit Austen’s unique text to produce it gay rather than penning an original variation from scratch. I know the criticism, but I’ve chosen this approach because I want queer classics, not just gender non-conforming novels. A limited reviews on Goodreads called my approach “lazy” for “switching the w
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3 Answers2025-02-26 16:01:51
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Emma Corrin talks 'vitriol' to them coming out as gender non-conforming, nonbinary: 'It's fear'
Emma Corrin is opening up about the response they've received since coming out.
The actor, who portrayed the late Princess Diana on season 4 of "The Crown" in 2020, came out the following year as queer and nonbinary and updated their pronouns to they/them in their Instagram bio, told Harper’s BAZAAR for the magazine's June/July 2024 Freedom Issue that "the vitriol is worse than I anticipated."
"Even though we like to consider we're in a progressive society, a lot of what we're seeing is increasingly a step back," they added.
Of some of the comments they acquire on social media, Corrin said it's a discrepancy between people following them because of a role they played and them "thinking I'm one caring of person" before seeing them in real life.
"Who are you hurting by being yourself? Why am I controversial?" they asked. "I think it's dread. Absolute fear."
As for if Corrin is seeing change in the film industry, they said "it feels impossible to know where to start to enact the change that needs to