Thursday, March 6, 2008

Queen of Queers


How would you feel if you read the following. Once upon a time there was a handsome prince who was looking to fall in love. He met a beautiful princess but didn’t find her attractive, then met another princess but found her to be not suitable for him, later met a prince from a far away place and fell in love. They later got married and lived together happily ever after. That’s a story that may sound familiar to young British children. Fourteen elementary schools are testing the reactions of the young readers about different types of families and the gay community.
It’s not the children that seem to have a problem with these fairy tales, but the parents. Conservative and religious families feel this is promoting homosexuality and do not approve of this. Most adults are not as understanding considering when they where this age they did not learn about homosexuality in the third grade or younger.
The idea for new books will be addressing same-sex parenthood. “And Tango Makes Three” will be about a baby penguin who has 2 fathers, another book called “Spacegirl Pukes” will be about a girl who is sent on a space trip withher 2 mothers.
Gay marriage was legalized in Britain in 2005 which therefore allows children to be more understanding as to society in today’s world if read at a younger age.

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