What’s a kiss, you know?Īnyway, here are 18 more classic literary characters who are queer, whatever that means. What can any of us know, really, about anything, what with time being finite and language shifting beneath our feet like some kind of jargon earthquake.
There’s probably some super straight-person reason Harper Lee never married, and Daphne du Maurier definitely wrote those love letters to Gertrude Lawrence and Ellen Doubleday to practice her penmanship. And while I have stood in front of Jane Austen’s former home in Bath - 25 Gay St., in fact - I have not had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with her over tea to make sport of our neighbors and discuss the evolution of the word “queer” and Charlotte Lucas’ place within that conceptual flowering. Neither have I used a Literatec to transport myself into the fictional realm of Green Gables. I can’t say I’ve ever time traveled to Prince Edward Island circa 1908 to ask Lucy Maud Montgomery if Anne Shirley is bisexual.
