Anne with an e pushing gay character
Letter to Editor: Caution to Parents: Anne of Leafy Gables—”Anne With An “E”—Pushes LGBT Agenda
Dear Lighthouse Trails:
The “update” to the Anne of Green Gables series on Netflix called Anne with an E. has undertones – and overtones – of transvestitism and homosexuality. It started out with one of Anne’s young male friends, Cole, hinting about his sexuality. In season 2 episode 7, it all came out.
In that episode, her best friend Diana, who’s wealthy aunt had hinted about her lesbianism in the past, came right out with it at a bizarre party, attended by Anne and her friends. Her lost companion was mourned by all – even Anne, and by the end of the episode, Cole announces, after being exhorted to be who he really is by a woman loving woman artist, that he is gay, and receives glowing support from the aunt.
If that’s not enough, in the previous episode, the pastor in their hometown, dressed up like a voluptuous drag queen for the town play, while Anne cut her hair and played a farm . . . boy.
Even my beloved HGTV international beach-oriented house-hunting shows are jamming Yoga and/or homosexuality down our throats in almost e
Anne with more than just an ‘E’
My family and I have been watching “Anne with an E” as an alternative to our usual diet of crime or political dramas that we also enjoy. The series is loosely based on Anne of Green Gables, a classic novel about a teen who is rejected by her mother and is living a miserable being in an orphanage. Then she is adopted by a couple (who are in fact brother and sister) and gets to stay an idyllic being on their farm surrounded by cherish and lots of great scenery.
Anne is artistic and sensitive and some of her excitable dialogue is a delight to listen to. So far, it has been adorable homely and heart-warming stuff. There are some darker moments: the drama of being almost rejected before adoption, a few mis-steps in behaviour, some mean bullying at educational facility, being looked down on because of her past and her class, and a run-in with some local con-artists. But the drama always resolves positively and it is all blended in with plenty of home cooking (lots of pastry and flour dust), farming (much pitching of loose hay in the barn) and English spoken with that slightly unnerving Canadian lilt.
Then suddenly in the episode we watched l
UNPOPULAR OPINION
I didn’t like the way this series dealt with homosexuality.
Before anyone starts accusing me of homophobia, I’d appreciate to make it unmistakable that I don’t believe people should be condemned or looked down upon just because they’re queer . However, I DO ponder representing 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 start by giving a brief recap of the ‘queerness’ in this show...
So, ‘Anne with an E’ portrays two gay 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 time. A topic in the series is how the latter died recently, which sank Jo into a declare of grief that led her to visit Diana and her family. Eventually, she attends a party at HER house, in which there’s toast to the lesbian couple. This is where she and Anne discover about the secret romance. Even if her best friend is weirded out by it initially, the
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Recently it was announced that the Canadian TV series Anne With An E, an original demonstrate based on characters from L.M. Montgomery’s much-loved 1908 novel Anne of Verdant Gables, will introduce an LGBTQ plotline featuring one of Anne’s classmates. In itself this anachronistic updating of an old classic is nothing new in show business – the 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton reimagined the American Revolution with people of hue singing rap songs, director Baz Luhrmann put a hip-hop soundtrack in his 2013 version of The Great Gatsby, and 1962’s Cleopatra portrayed the Queen of the Nile speaking English and looking prefer Liz Taylor. Yet Anne With An E‘s tender for contemporary relevance rings more false, and more heavy-handed, than most similar reboots.
It is, of course, distantly plausible that an adolescent boy in first 20th-Century Prince Edward Island would have felt and confessed stirrings of lgbtq+ desire. There have always been homosexual people, and the 1895 libel case of Oscar Wilde would have publicized the subculture to a wide audience. In the fictional planet of Anne of Grassy Gables, a gay personality is no more out of
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Many were ecstatic last year when Netflix added the TV series Anne with an E, a retelling of the 20th century classic children’s novel Anne of Green Gables. The innocent novel series told of adventures, mishaps, and lessons learned by a young orphan, Anne Shirley. More than 50 million copies of Anne of Green Gables has been sold, it has been translated into at least 36 languages.
As an “Anne with an E” myself, I found the title amusing and dove right into the series last year. Those who include read the books or watched the older TV series were more than likely greatly saddened by the overall change in outlook. Where hope had been paramount in the original depiction, oppression prevailed in the first season of Anne with an E. And though it was replete with skilled visual effects and quality performances, hints of feminism were sprinkled throughout the first season.
This season, Netflix has taken it to the next level. Once used as a tool to motivate children around the world to overcome challenges in the face of adversi