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Aunt Dora Baggins
Elvenhome
Aug 22 2012, 10:41pm
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when I first read The Hobbit, it was 1969 and I was 12. So "queer" didn't have any other meaning for me than the one Tolkien meant, though I suppose in some circles it did already. And though I'm very active in gay rights stuff now, it still doesn't jar me, maybe because I read the book so often before I knew of any other meaning.
And it shows up in so many other places from my childhood, like the Robert Frost poem about stopping by the woods on a snowy evening. It's a word that still has the old meaning for me, as well as the newer one.
I recently read the Anne of Green Gables series, and there are a lot of "gay" people in there that are completely straight. It jumps out at me, but I find it just adds to the feeling that the stories are from another time.
(I do have to admit that the old Camp Fire Wood-gatherer's Pledge that I learned as a kid does jar me, though: "As fagots are brought from the forest, firmly held by the sinews that bind them, I will cleave to my Camp Fire sisters, where ever, whenever I find them.")
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(This post was edited by Aunt Dora Baggins on Aug 22 2012, 10:44pm)
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