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“So I looked at over 600 tales in the archive, reading from a queer perspective. Stith Thompson’s six-volume Motif-Index of Folk-Literature is considered the international key to traditional material. a positive queer story that was passed from generation to generation over 200 years ago Pete Jordi Wood – The Dog And The Sailor MORE FROM FORBES Openly Gay Indian Prince Joins Calls To Ban LGBT Conversion Therapy By Jamie Wareham The Dog And The Sailor is the gay fairytale where the male sailor, gets to kiss Prince Charming The Dog And The Sea is an ancient story, only reimagined with new illustrations, that truly depicted. Studying for a Masters degree in Illustration at Falmouth University, and sick and tired of the ‘Hero’s Journey’ Pete re-read Stith Thompson’s folk tale catalogues.Īnd he found something Thompson had missed, something inherently queer. Or worse, that they were predatory and evil.”īut there is light at the end of this historical tale – one story about a Prince and a sailor who fall in love has survived. “Unfortunately, Stith Thompson was all too happy to put LGBTQ folk tales into his catalogues if the queers got bashed up, imprisoned, sent to hell or murdered. His folklore collections remain rife with maligned evil LGBTQ characters who, rape, pillage and murder. In a matter of speaking yes, but not entirely. own morals and the stories they heard when they edited them for their collections Pete Jordi Wood – The Dog And The Sailor MORE FROM FORBES Coronavirus Could Change LGBT+ Pride Forever-What Digital Prides Teach Us By Jamie Wareham Did Stith Thompson press “Delete” on vast chunks of LGBTQ history? Much gay folklore was lost when Sith Thompson and other prolific folklore academics imposed their. One guy got to choose what stories did or didn’t make the cut in what is now the core resource and system for documenting folklore in an order still used today. Open about his views he admits he omitted many stories in the catalogue because they were ‘perverse’ or ‘unnatural,’” Pete says. “In the accompanying Motif Index of Folklore he compiled in the 1920s, and revised in the 1950s, he lists ‘Homosexuality’ and ‘Lesbianism’ in a section called “Unnatural Perversions” with bestiality and incest.
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“Unfortunately by his own accounts, Stith Thompson brought with him to the editing his own sense of right and wrong. Stith Thompson, an American Scholar and Folklorist, one half of the duo who created this system then got to work on cataloguing, which is where of monumentally erased much of LGBTQ folklore. They used the Aarne Thompson Uther Tale Type Index, to catalogue certain folktales by their structure and assigns them AT (Arne Thompson) numbers. “Over one hundred years, very few people edited a catalogue of the world’s folklore with a system which logs different variations of tales across borders around the world,” Pete says. This sparked a considerable push to catalogue stories, from about 1850-1900, before they were lost forever, as people began to read instead of pass stories from generation to generation.Īnd this is where Pete says the filtering of LGBTQ characters began to occur. It is challenging to trace stories further back than the 19th century because it wasn’t until the 1800’s that “Folklorists” became a fully-fledged academic discipline.Īround the Industrial revolution, and the invention of the printing press, some of the earliest Folklorists began to create collections of folklores.Ĭapitalising on listening to storytellers, they began writing down and publishing their stories as collections. MORE FROM FORBES Talking About Your Pronouns Is One Easy Way To Be A Transgender Ally By Jamie Wareham Gay fairytales have always existed, but some have been edited out of history