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Then, Edvard announced his plans to get married—to a woman. That he would reveal his desires through a story about things in the deep is only fitting, given what Andersen wrote to Edvard in an letter. If he was overly aggressive in his advances, it was a desperation perhaps at least partly borne out of the immense pressure and pain of his day to repress his queerness.

With his long, narrow face, waves of dark brown hair, deep-set eyes, prominent nose, and thin, faintly curling lips, as captured in a well-known portrait by Christian Albrecht Jensen, he perhaps even appeared a bit supernatural himself, a little puckish behind the eyes, all the more so underneath the dignified black suits he had been taught to wear by the Collins, though he also—especially in later portraits—has a faintly haunting melancholy to him.

He imagined a world deep beneath the sea, where a mermaid, seeking someone from another world—a human prince—finds herself rejected by him, even after she saves his life and, later, desiring that he see her as beautiful, convinces a sea-witch to give her legs.

The Little Mermaid 39 : For over a year, he had been trying—perhaps

Up until The Little Mermaid, Disney’s musicals were mostly jukebox style. It is an angsty death, arguably even suicide; she literally perishes, as the sorceress foreshadows, from heartbreak at the prince choosing a human instead. Andersen felt as intensely as the creatures and persons of his stories.

That is the most insipid, boring word you could use. The Little Mermaid fairy tale was written by a queer man, Hans Christian Andersen, so protests about the new movie's diversity are pointless. It was his attempt to translate his frustrated queer desires into the language of a fantastical story, into a fragment of dream.

Edvard, in particular, was the candle he danced around, even when staying too near singed his wings. From the island of Fyn, where he had retreated, he wrote a sharp, subtly erotic rebuke to his unavailable crush:. Andersen frequently flirted with men and women alike, and, just as often, he found himself burnt by rejection.

Indeed, like the ugly duckling, the little mermaid imagines something is ineradicably wrong with her; spurned, her worst fear of unlovability confirmed, she evanesces away. The story itself isn’t the only thing that has a queer resonance. Edvard, I feel so infuriated by this loathsome weather!

But when it came to romance, Andersen was more moth than flame.

The Little Mermaid How : Dive in as we explore why this classic fairytale continues to resonate with queer readers

Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid has had complaints over its differences from the cartoon, but the original story was a deeper allegory. Ashman introduced the American musical theatre style to The Little Mermaid, resulting in songs that not only reveal more about the characters but move the plot forward.

Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths which no divers know. He would fall, the next decade, for the Grand-Duke of Weimar. I have hotter blood than you and half of Copenhagen. Nothing works. Andersen was devastated. His description at the end of walking away for two days before returning home to Edvard evokes a fantasy of being in a relationship with him, as though Edvard is simply his uncouth boyfriend, and Andersen needs his space.

I also long for you, to shake you, to see your hysterical laughter, to be able to walk away, insulted, and not come back home to you for two whole days. They may not have found mermaids—indeed, the foot descent into the dark punctuated by the stars of bioluminescence was so astonishing that the explorers could hardly keep track of all that they saw—but what they did discover, schools of squid and eel-like fish with astonishing gaping mouths and glimmering jellyfish, might have made Andersen smile.

Any fool can be called worthy! It was an encrypted, but plain-enough look into the queer love he was never able to find for himself.